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.- City with about 158,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,370 metres (4,490 feet)
- Description: county
- Also known as“Chira”“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”“Tsehletsun”“策勒县 چىرا”
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Latitude
36.99898° or 36° 59′ 56″ north
Longitude
80.8067° or 80° 48′ 24″ east
Open location code
8M82XRX4+HM
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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: “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: “Comté de chira”
- French: “Qira”
- 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”
- Korean: “치라현”
- 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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