Qiemo
See also: qièmò
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 且末.
Proper noun edit
Qiemo
- A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China[1], 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, →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).
- 2019 October 20, “Jujube harvest festival held in Qiemo County, China's Xinjiang”, in Li Xia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[2], archived from the original on 07 December 2019[3]:
- Actors perform during a jujube harvest festival in Qiemo County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 19, 2019. Qiemo County, situated in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin and on the edge of the Tarim Basin, is known for high-quality jujube production.
- A town in Qiemo, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
county in Xinjiang, China
Further reading edit
- Qiemo, Ch'ieh-mo, Chieh-mo, Chiehmo at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qiemo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 1