Keriya Town
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| Traditional Chinese | 木尕拉鎮 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 木尕拉镇 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur |
كېرىيە
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Mùgǎlā Zhèn |
| Wade–Giles | Mu4-ka3-la1 Chen4 |
| IPA | [mûkàlá ʈʂɤn] |
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| Latin Yëziqi | Këriye |
| Yengi Yeziⱪ | Keriyə |
| SASM/GNC | Keriya |
| Siril Yëziqi | Керийə |
Coordinates: 36°53′N 81°36′E / 36.883°N 81.600°E
Keriya Town or Mugala Town is a town in Keriya (Yutian) County, Xinjiang, China, on the old Southern Silk Road. As the commercial and administrative centre of Keriya County, it is about 166 km east of Hotan, 80 km east of Qira, and 120 km west of Niya. Yutian County has a population of about 160,000.
During the Former Han Dynasty the kingdom based on the Keriya Oasis was known as Wumi (扜彌, Wūmí) and that there were, "3340 households, 20040 individuals with 3540 persons able to bear arms". These figures seem to be out of balance with too a high number of individuals per household. Perhaps to correct this, the Hou Hanshu - which records the kingdom as Jumi (拘彌, Jūmí) - states that, during the Later Han Dynasty (25-220 CE), it "controls 2,173 households, 7,251 individuals, and 1,760 people able to bear arms." The later Weilüe and the Tangshu refer to Keriya as Hanmi (扞彌, Hànmí).
Both the Hanshu and the Hou Hanshu place this kingdom 390 li [162 km] east of Khotan. This is very close to the distance between Khotan and Keriya on modern maps, and confirms the identification of Wumi/Jumi with Keriya.
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