Yutian County, Xinjiang
Yutian County 于田县 • كېرىيە ناھىيىسى | |
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County | |
Location of the county (red) within Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Yutian Location of the seat in Xinjiang | |
Coordinates: 36°52′N 81°42′E / 36.867°N 81.700°ECoordinates: 36°52′N 81°42′E / 36.867°N 81.700°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
Prefecture | Hotan Prefecture |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Yutian County, Xinjiang | |||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 于田县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 於田縣 | ||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 玉田县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 玉田縣 | ||||||||||
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Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 克里雅县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 克里雅縣 | ||||||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||||||
Uyghur |
كېرىيە ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Yutian County (Chinese: 于田县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Keriya County (Uyghur: كېرىيە ناھىيىسى ; Chinese: 克里雅县), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It contains an area of 39,023 km2 (15,067 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 220,000. Its government is located at Keriya Town.
Name
The county derives its Chinese name from the Kingdom of Khotan, although the official name was written as "于阗" at the time.[1] This was latter changed to "玉田" (literally, Jade Field) following the adoption of Simplified Chinese, and eventually to "于田".[2] Also it Uyghur name derives from the Keriya River.
Yutian County is dubbed the "Home of Jade"[3]
History
Yutian County (于阗县) was formed in 1882, its administrative center was Karakash, and Keriya was only a post station. In 1885, the administrative center of the county was moved to Keriya. The ancient name of Keriya was Ganmi(Gyuymi, Umi). The names Yutian and Ganmi were used by the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian in his 125 BCE report on his embassy's travels.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 31, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2015.