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Keriya
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English
thumb|Map including Keriya (CIA, 1950)
thumb|YÜ-TIEN (KERIYA) (YÜ-T'IEN) (from the International Map of the World, 1971)
Alternative forms
en Keriye
Proper noun
en Yutian.
en 1997 Peter Neville-Hadley China: the Silk Routes https://archive.org/details/china00pete/ w:Cadogan Guides w:Globe Pequot Press 1-86011-052-5 37712573 306 https://archive.org/details/china00pete/page/306/ The desert returns after you leave Keriya, and dunes periodically threaten the road.
en 2004 w:Barry Holstun Lopez Resistance https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781400076659/ Fiction New York w:Vintage Books 2005 1-4000-7665-X 2003065986 61184671 28740290M 105 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781400076659/page/105/ A week into the trip Korbel told me I was riding well, no trouble at all for him, so we would detour a little to the east, toward an oasis called Tongguzbasti. We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between the Khotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the Keriya. Along the way we would see something.
en 2012 Frommer's China https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118094198/ w:Frommer's 5th w:Hoboken John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 978-1-118-09419-8 766322081 25882872M 329 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118094198/page/329/ These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
en 2015-02-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20150221071906/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/water-02042015152217.html https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/water-02042015152217.html February 21, 2015 More Than One Million Lack Clean Water in Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture Joshua Lipes; Jilil Kashgary (reporter) Mamatjan Juma w:Radio Free Asia “We use piped water in Keriya (Yutian) county—it’s been like that for years, at least five or six,” a Uyghur farmer from the county’s Achchan town said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Translations
county in Xinjiang, China
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 克里雅
Japanese: ja
Polish: pl Kerija f