Definition of "Keriya"

The desert returns after you leave Keriya, and dunes periodically threaten the road.

1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China: the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides)‎, Globe Pequot Press, page 306

A week into the trip Korbel told me I was riding well, no trouble at all for him, so we would detour a little to the east, toward an oasis called Tongguzbasti. We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between the Khotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the Keriya. Along the way we would see something.

2004, Barry Holstun Lopez, Resistance‎ (Fiction), New York: Vintage Books, published 2005, page 105

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., page 329

“We use piped water in Keriya (Yutian) county—it’s been like that for years, at least five or six,” a Uyghur farmer from the county’s Achchan town said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

2015, Joshua Lipes, Jilil Kashgary (reporter), “More Than One Million Lack Clean Water in Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎