NW China
Xinjiang
Hotan Prefecture

Keriya Town

Keriya Town or Mugala Town is a town in , , , China, on the old Southern Silk Road. As the commercial and administrative centre of Keriya County, it is about 166 km east of , 80 km east of Qira, and 120 km west of Niya.
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  • Type: City with 257,000 residents
  • Description: county-level city in Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China
  • Also known as: “Keriya”, “Mugala”, “Mugala Zhen”, “Mughalla”, “Yutian”, “Yutian Xian”, “于闐”, and “于阗”

Keriya Town

Latitude
36.85741° or 36° 51′ 27″ north
Longitude
81.67537° or 81° 40′ 31″ east
Population
257,000
Elevation
1,410 metres (4,626 feet)
Open location code
8M83VM4G+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4549050983
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8562558
Wiki­data ID
Q4012331
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Keriya Town” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Keriya”
  • Chinese: “于田县”
  • Chinese: “木尕拉”
  • Chinese: “木尕拉镇”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيريا”
  • French: “Keriya”
  • Gan Chinese: “木尕拉镇”
  • German: “Keriya”
  • Indonesian: “Keriya”
  • Italian: “Keriya”
  • Japanese: “ムガッラ鎮”
  • Korean: “위톈현”
  • Lithuanian: “Kerija”
  • Persian: “شهرک کریا”
  • Persian: “موغاللا”
  • Russian: “Керия”
  • Spanish: “Keriya”
  • Uighur: “Mughalla”
  • Uighur: “مۇغاللا بازىرى”
  • Uighur: “مۇغاللا”
  • Ukrainian: “Керія”
  • Welsh: “Keriya”
  • Wu Chinese: “木尕拉镇”

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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 “Keriya Town”. Photo: Ricky Qi, CC BY 2.0.