Qiemo County
Qiemo County
Qarqan, Charchan, Chiehmo, Chü-mo, Jumo | |
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Main entrance of a bazaar in the county seat of Qiemo | |
Location of Qiemo County (pink) in Bayingolin Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
| Coordinates (Qiemo County government): 38°08′46″N 85°31′48″E / 38.146°N 85.530°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Autonomous prefecture | Bayingolin |
| County seat | Qiemo (Qarqan) |
| Area | |
• Total | 138,680 km2 (53,540 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 69,236 |
| • Density | 0.50/km2 (1.3/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur, Han Chinese |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 841900 |
| Website | www |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | چەرچەن ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 且末县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 且末縣 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 恰尔羌县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 恰爾羌縣 | ||||||||||
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Qiemo County (Chinese: 且末县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qarqan County (Uyghur: چەرچەن ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 恰尔羌县), 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. Its area is 138,645 square kilometers (53,531 sq mi) and, according to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000. The county seat is at Qiemo Town.