Qira County

Qira County
چىرا ناھىيىسى (Uyghur)
策勒县 (Chinese)
Chira, Cele, Ts'e-le
County
Location of the county in Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Location of the county in Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Qira is located in Southern Xinjiang
Qira
Qira
Location of the seat in Xinjiang
Qira is located in Xinjiang
Qira
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Qira (Xinjiang)
Qira is located in China
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Qira
Qira (China)
Coordinates: 37°00′N 80°48′E / 37.000°N 80.800°E / 37.000; 80.800
CountryChina
Autonomous regionXinjiang
PrefectureHotan
County seatQira Town
Township-level divisions2 towns, 6 townships
Area
[1][2]
 • Total
31,688.01 km2 (12,234.81 sq mi)
Elevation
[1][3]
1,500−7,282 m (4,900−23,981 ft)
Population
 (2020)[4]
 • Total
157,792
 • Density5.0/km2 (13/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
 • Major ethnic groupsUyghur[1][5]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard[a])
Postal code
848300
Websitexjcl.gov.cn (in Chinese)
Qira County
Uyghur name
Uyghurچىرا ناھىيىسى‎
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiChira Nahiyisi
Yengi YeziⱪQira Nah̡iyisi
SASM/GNCQira Nahiyisi
Siril YëziqiЧира Наһийиси
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese策勒县
Traditional Chinese策勒縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCèlè Xiàn
Wade–GilesTsʻê⁴-lê⁴ Hsien⁴

Qira County[3][6] (Uyghur: چىرا ناھىيىسى), alternatively Chira or Cele (from Mandarin Chinese), 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.[5] The county is bordered to the north by Aksu Prefecture, to the east by Yutian / Keriya County, to the northwest by Lop County, to the southwest by Hotan County including the China-India disputed Aksai Chin area and to the south by Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture in Tibet.[7]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference govxjcl was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ a b Complete Atlas Of The World (3rd ed.). Penguin Random House. 2016. p. 238 – via Internet Archive. Qira{...}Muztag 7282m
  4. ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
  5. ^ a b 1997年策勒县行政区划 [1997 Qira County Administrative Divisions]. XZQH.org (in Simplified Chinese). 6 January 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2020. 和田地区辖县。位于昆仑山北麓、塔克拉玛干沙漠南缘。面积3.6万平方千米，人口12.6万，有维吾尔、汉、回、藏、壮等民族。其中维吾尔族占98.4％，辖1镇7乡。
  6. ^ The official spelling is "Qira" according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù 中国地名录 (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p. 308.
  7. ^ Shixin Wang; Baolin Yang; Yi Zhou; Futao Wang; Rui Zhang; Qing Zhao (2018). "Snow Cover Mapping and Ice Avalanche Monitoring from the Satellite Data of the Sentinels". International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 42 (3): 1766. Bibcode:2018ISPAr42.3.1765W. doi:10.5194/ISPRS-ARCHIVES-XLII-3-1765-2018. S2CID 59056188.


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