Chundzha (Uyghur: Чонҗа, Chonja, Kazakh: Шонжы, Şonjy) is a selo and the administrative center of Uygur District of Almaty Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

[2] The most famous thermal baths are located in the village of Chundzha, 250 km from Almaty, where the journey by car takes about 4–4.5 hours.

According to studies carried out in 2010, the water in the springs of the Karadalinsky field in the Uygur district of the Almaty region is a medical and canteen weakly mineralized acrotherm (hypertherma) of a complex sulfate-hydrocarbonate-chloride sodium composition.

[4] In East Turkestan, near the city of Urimсhi, there is a district called "Shonzhi" where local Kazakhs are densely populated.

According to a report made by russian colonel Nikolai Friederiks in 1869, toponym "Chundzja" comes from the name of chinese citizen Junji of taranchi tribe.