Keriya

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Map including Keriya (CIA, 1950)
YÜ-TIEN (KERIYA) (YÜ-T'IEN) (from the International Map of the World, 1971)

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Keriya

  1. Synonym of Yutian
    • 1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China: the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides)‎, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:
      The desert returns after you leave Keriya, and dunes periodically threaten the road.
    • 2004, Barry Holstun Lopez, Resistance (Fiction), New York: Vintage Books, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.
    • 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's)‎, 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, 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).
    • 2015, Joshua Lipes, Jilil Kashgary (reporter), “More Than One Million Lack Clean Water in Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., 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.

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