Qiemo County
Coordinates: 38°08′09″N 85°31′48″E / 38.13583°N 85.53°E / 38.13583; 85.53
The Qiemo (Qarqan) County (Chinese: 且末), also known as Cherchen County in the Uighur language, 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. Its area is 138,645 square kilometres (53,531 sq mi) and, according to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000. The county seat is at Qiemo Town.
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