Qira County
Qira County, alternatively Chira or Cele, is a county in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Almost all the residents of the county are Uyghurs and live around oases situated between the desolate Taklamakan Desert and Kunlun Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 158,000 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Chira-Bazar”, “Tjira”, “Ts’e-le”, “Ts’e-lo”, “Ts’e-lo-chen”, “Ts’e-lo-hsien”, “Ts’e-lo-shih-ch’ang”, “Ts’e-lo-ts’un”, “Tsehleh”, and “Tsehletsun”
Qira County
- Category: county of China
- Location: Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Qira County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كبرا”
- Bengali: “কিরা কাউন্টি”
- Cebuano: “Qira”
- Chinese: “Qira-koān”
- Chinese: “策勒”
- Chinese: “策勒县”
- Chinese: “策勒縣”
- Chinese: “策勒镇”
- Danish: “Qira”
- Dutch: “Qira”
- Finnish: “Qiran kunta”
- French: “Cele”
- French: “Chira”
- French: “Comte de Chira”
- French: “Comté de chira”
- French: “Qira”
- French: “xian de Chira”
- French: “Xian de Chira”
- Gan Chinese: “策勒县”
- German: “Qira”
- Greek: “Κίρα”
- Gujarati: “કિરા કાઉન્ટી”
- Hindi: “कीरा काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Qira County”
- Italian: “Contea di Qira”
- Italian: “Qira”
- Japanese: “チラ県”
- Japanese: “策勒県”
- Kannada: “ಕಿರಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “처러현”
- Latvian: “Kira apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Kiros sritis”
- Malay: “Qira County”
- Marathi: “क्विरा काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Qira-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qira”
- Norwegian: “Qira”
- Persian: “شهرستان چیرا”
- Polish: “Powiat Qira”
- Portuguese: “Qira”
- Russian: “Чира”
- Sinhala: “කුයිරා පළාත”
- Spanish: “Qira”
- Swedish: “Chira, Hotan”
- Swedish: “Chira”
- Tamil: “கிரா கவுண்டி”
- Tatar: “Чыра”
- Telugu: “కిర కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “คิระ คันทรี่”
- Turkish: “Çira İlçesi”
- Uighur: “Chira nahiyisi”
- Uighur: “Qira Zhen”
- Uighur: “Чира”
- Uighur: “چىرا ناھىيىسى”
- Uighur: “چىرا”
- Ukrainian: “Чира”
- Urdu: “چیرا کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Chira”
- Vietnamese: “Qira”
- Vietnamese: “Sách Lạc huyện”
- Vietnamese: “Sách Lặc”
- Wu Chinese: “策勒县”
- Yue Chinese: “策勒”
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