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Qiemo County

Qiemo County
Chinese nameSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseAlternative Chinese nameSimplified Chinese恰尔羌县Traditional Chinese恰爾羌縣

Qiemo County (Chinese: ) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qarqan County (Uyghur: چەرچەن ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 恰尔羌县), 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, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. Its area is 138,645 square kilometers (53,531 sq mi) and, according to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000. The county seat is at Qiemo Town.