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View more than a hundred images in eight sets related to Cherchen / Qiemo in this collection including sights, people, street scenes, lodging, and dining plus local and area maps.

Read more about Cherchen / Qiemo at my web site: Central Asia Traveler on Cherchen / Qiemo -- Ancient Mummies and Modern Comforts with more than 50 pages of tourism information on sights, logistics, transportation, lodging and dining.

See 2,600-year-old mummies brightly dressed in their tomb and stainless-steel futuristic buildings and a pyramid; visit a Uyghur warlord's manor home whose interior evokes ancient Islam; walk wide boulevards and verdant pastures of sheep.

Nearby, visit Bronze Age rock carvings, see endangered Tibetan Antelope in a reserve, hunt for jade in a working jade mine and tour an oilfield in the center of the Taklamakan Desert.

Cherchen / Qiemo is in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. 38°8'4"N, 85°31'49"E.

Cherchen and Qiemo are both ancient names for this area -- Cherchen is based on the ancient name for the larger area kingdom of Shanshan (local name Kroran), dating to the first centuries of the common era, and Marco Polo called it Charchan 1200 years later. Qiemo is based on the name of the local kingdom given by the Chinese in the ancient records from the Han Dynasty, who wrote the name Calmadana as Qiemo-tona. The native Uyghur population usually uses Cherchen, while the Han Chinese usually use Qiemo.
Since both names are quite frequently used in books, articles, and on the web, and both Uyghur and Chinese are official languages in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, this writer combines both names.

Cherchen / Qiemo here refers to the city. Cherchen / Qiemo is also the name of the surrounding county, as you can see in the Maps set of images in this collection.