Kuqa[b] (/ ˈkuːtʃə / KOO-chə) is a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It was once the homeland of the ancient Buddhist Kingdom of Kucha.

2024年4月6日 · The ancient city of Kuqa (a.k.a. “Kuche” or 库车) is one of those historically significant and yet often-overlooked places to visit in China’s far western region of Xinjiang. When it comes to traveling in Xinjiang, places like Kashgar, Turpan and Yili often hog the spotlight.

Kucha or Kuche (also: Kuçar, Kuchar; Uyghur: كۇچار, Кучар; Chinese: 龜茲; pinyin: Qiūcí, Chinese: 庫車; pinyin: Kùchē; Sanskrit: 𑀓𑀽𑀘𑀻𑀦, romanized: Kūcīna) [1] was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the Muzat River.

Kucha（82°35′-84°17′E, 40°46′-42°35′N）, also known as "Kuche or Kuqa" used to be a famous kingdom along the silk road in the ancient time. It is located in the middle of the southern foot of Tianshan Mountain and the northern edge of Tarim Basin, …

Slightly to the north of Kuqa lies an impressive cathedral of cliffs, known as the Tianshan Grand Canyon. Nearby, ancient caves still adorn brightly colored paintings of Buddhist art. Kuqa, now an obscure town in Xinjiang, China, holds many secrets of …

Kuqa (Kucha) was an important stage of the Silk Road as well as a Buddhist center. It is the hometown of Kumarajiva who translated several Buddhist sutras from Sanskrit to Chinese.

2017年11月29日 · Lying in the northwestern part of Xinjiang, between the middle ranges of Tianshan Mountains and Tarim basin, Kuqa is an oasis surrounded by mountains and the Taklimakan Desert; an important hub on the ancient Silk Road.

It is a famous and remarkable tourist city along the silk road. There are over 50 cultural relics and historic sites in Kuga, among them the Kizil Thousand-Buddha Caves is the most well known, and qiuci music as famous as the grotto art is an important part in the western region music.

2007年2月11日 · The Desert in northwest China fills the expansive Tarim Basin between the Kunlun Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau to the south and the Tian Shan (Celestial Mountains) to the north. It is china’s largest sand desert and one of the eight biggest deserts in the world.

As one of the famous travel destinations in Xinjiang, Kuqa is situated in the mid-west of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, southern foot of the middle section of the Tianshan Mountain and the northern edge of the Tarim Basin. Kuqa was known as Qiuci in ancient times.