Qiemo Town
The oasis town of Qiemo or Cherchen is the capital of Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is on the Qiemo River and at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, on the Southern Silk Route.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 18,900 residents
- Description: county-level town in Xinjiang, China
- Also known as: “Ch’e-erh-ch’eng”, “Ch’ieh-mo”, “Ch’ieh-mo-ch’eng”, “Ch’ieh-mo-hsien”, “Ch’ien-mo”, “Charchan”, “Charchan Bazar”, “Cherchen”, “Cherchen Bazar”, “Qarqan”, “Qarqan Town”, “Qiemo”, “Qiemo Xian”, “Tchertchen”, “Tergen”, “Tjertjen”, and “Tschertschen”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cherchen.
Cherchen
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qiemo County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qarqan County, is a county under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south.
Qiemo Town
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.13537° or 38° 8′ 7″ northLongitude
85.52963° or 85° 31′ 47″ eastPopulation
18,900Elevation
1,252 metres (4,108 feet)IATA airport code
IQMOpen location code
8MC74GPH+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 6163447057OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Qiemo Town” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Qiemo Town”
- Bulgarian: “Черчен”
- Chinese: “且末”
- Chinese: “且末县”
- Chinese: “且末镇”
- French: “bourg de Qiemo”
- French: “Qiemo”
- Gan Chinese: “且末镇”
- German: “Qarqan”
- Hungarian: “Csercsen”
- Lithuanian: “Čerčenas”
- Mongolian: “Черчен”
- Persian: “شهر کیمو”
- Russian: “Цемо”
- Russian: “Черчен”
- Spanish: “Qiemo”
- Uighur: “Qarqan”
- Uighur: “Qərqən”
- Uighur: “Чәрчән”
- Uighur: “چەرچەن بازىرى”
- Uighur: “چەرچەن”
- Ukrainian: “Цємо”
- Ukrainian: “Черчен”
- Wu Chinese: “且末镇”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Qiemo Town”. Photo: John Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0.