NW China
Xinjiang
Tarim

Cherchen

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 to the south.
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  • Type: City with 69,200 residents
  • Description: county
  • Also known as: “Qarqan”, “Qiemo”, and “Qiemo County”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qiemo Town.

Town
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The oasis town of Qiemo or Cherchen is the capital of Qiemo County, , , . It is on the and at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, on the Southern Silk Route.

Cherchen

Latitude
38.1442° or 38° 8′ 39″ north
Longitude
85.5273° or 85° 31′ 38″ east
Population
69,200
Open location code
8MC74GVG+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 272621001
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Wiki­data ID
Q643714
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cherchen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كيمو”
  • Bengali: “কিয়েমু কান্টি”
  • Chinese: “Qarqan-koān”
  • Chinese: “Qiěmò xiàn”
  • Chinese: “且末”
  • Chinese: “且末县”
  • Danish: “Qiemo County”
  • Dutch: “Qarqan”
  • Finnish: “Qiemo County”
  • French: “Qiemo”
  • French: “xian de Qiemo”
  • French: “Xian de Qiemo”
  • Gan Chinese: “且末县”
  • German: “Qarqan”
  • Greek: “Κιέμο”
  • Gujarati: “કુએમો કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hindi: “किएमओ काउंटी”
  • Indonesian: “Qiemo County”
  • Italian: “Contea di Qiemo”
  • Japanese: “チャルチャン県”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಮೊಮೊ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Korean: “체모현”
  • Latvian: “Čerčenas apgabals”
  • Lithuanian: “Čerčenas”
  • Malay: “Qiemo County”
  • Marathi: “क्यूमो काउंटी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Qarqan-koān”
  • Mongolian: “Черчен шянь”
  • Mongolian: “ᠴᠧᠷᠴᠧᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qiemo”
  • Norwegian: “Qiemo”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چرچن”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چیمو”
  • Polish: “Powiat Qiemo”
  • Russian: “Черчен”
  • Sinhala: “කුඉමෝ පළාත”
  • Spanish: “Qiemo”
  • Swedish: “Cherchen”
  • Tamil: “கியேமோ கவுண்டி”
  • Telugu: “క్వియోమో కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “ควิมอ คันทรี”
  • Turkish: “Çerçen İlçesi”
  • Uighur: “Cherchen nahiyisi”
  • Uighur: “چەرچەن ناھىيىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Черчен”
  • Urdu: “چیئمو کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Thả Mạt”
  • Wu Chinese: “且末县”
  • Yue Chinese: “且末”

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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 “Cherchen”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.