Yutian

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1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   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).

   2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 329

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   Authorities at the Yutian (Keriye) County Agricultural Bureau, Hoten district, called for each work unit to strengthen "management" of bureau staff and retired workers and to guarantee they "don't believe in religion, attend religious activities, or fast," according to an August 3 report on the Agricultural Bureau's Web site.

   2011, “Xinjiang Authorities Implement Ramadan Curbs Amid Renewed Pledges for Tight Controls Over Religion”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China

   Initial reports from the three villages nearest to the epicenter indicated that “there have been no injuries or deaths, and only some homes were cracked,” said Xinhua, the state-run news agency, citing an unidentified county official in Yutian. But officials and the police were still trying to find out if more isolated homes and herders suffered any harm, Xinhua said. Yutian County has 220,000 residents across 15,000 square miles, and the vast majority are Uighur, a largely Muslim people who call the county Keriya.

   2014 February 12, Chris Buckley, “Earthquake Strikes Remote Area of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2014, Asia Pacific

   Gulnisahan Tohti, who has been growing grapes for more than two decades in the township of Langan, Yutian County, never would have imagined that grape leaves would be sold at a higher price than grapes.

   2019 September 10, “Across China: Grape leaves become commodity hot in Xinjiang”, in mingmei, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2019

   Synonyms: Keriya, Keriye, Kiria

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1. historical region in southern Xinjiang, China

   Today known as Hotan or Hetian (和田), this western military stronghold was once known as Yutian (于闐).

   2016, Jeong Su-il, The Silk Road Encyclopedia, Seoul Selection U.S.A., Inc.

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   (We can also use Zhang Qian’s report to fill in more on our map of the Tarim Basin itself. Just west of the stay-behinds lived some people the envoy called the Yumi, then came the Yutian, and beyond the Yutian came the watershed we call the Pamirs, for “west of Yutian, all the rivers flow west and empty into the Western Sea, but east of there they flow eastward into the Salt Swamp.” Yutian thus can only be the west end of the Tarim Basin.)

   1999, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Ürümchi, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 123

   While there, Zhang sent dozens of assistants to visit other nations including Dayuan, Kangju, Daxia, Darouzhi and Anxi (安息) (present day Iran), Yuandu (身毒), and Yutian (于阗) (present day Hetian, Xinjiang) and Yumi (扜罙) (present day Yutian, Xinjiang).

   2015, Rongguang Zhao, A History of Food Culture in China, SCPG Publishing Corporation

2. A former name for a county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.