Lop County
Lop County, also Luopu, is a county in Hotan Prefecture, in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Almost all the residents of the county are Uyghur and live around oases situated between the desolate Taklamakan Desert and Kunlun Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 287,000 residents
- Description: county in Hotan Prefecture, China
- Also known as: “Lo-p’u”, “Lo-p’u-chen”, “Lo-p’u-hsien”, “Lob”, “Lop”, “Lop-Bazar”, and “Luopu Zhen”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sampul.
Sampul
Town
Sampul is a town in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. Sampul is situated 8 km southwest of Lop County.
Lop County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.06634° or 37° 3′ 59″ northLongitude
80.17906° or 80° 10′ 45″ eastPopulation
287,000Elevation
1,330 metres (4,364 feet)Open location code
8M92358H+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 452725955OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1280691Wikidata ID
Q929803
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Lop County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lop (kapital sa gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, lat 37,07, long 80,18)”
- Cebuano: “Lop”
- Chinese: “Lop-koān”
- Chinese: “洛浦”
- Chinese: “洛浦县”
- Chinese: “洛浦縣”
- Chinese: “洛浦镇”
- Dutch: “Lop”
- French: “Lop”
- French: “xian de Lop”
- French: “Xian de Lop”
- Gan Chinese: “洛浦县”
- German: “Lop”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Lop”
- Italian: “Contea di Lop”
- Japanese: “ロプ県”
- Korean: “뤄푸현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lop-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lop”
- Norwegian: “Lop”
- Persian: “شهرستان لوپ”
- Russian: “Лоп”
- Silesian: “Lopski Siyan”
- Spanish: “Lop”
- Spanish: “Luopu”
- Swedish: “Lop”
- Turkish: “Lop İlçesi”
- Uighur: “Лоп”
- Uighur: “لوپ ناھىيىسى”
- Uighur: “لوپ”
- Ukrainian: “Лоп”
- Urdu: “لوپ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Lop, Hotan”
- Vietnamese: “Lop”
- Wu Chinese: “洛浦县”
- Yue Chinese: “洛浦”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lop Urban Area Subdistrict and Lop Town.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 洛浦 لوپ and 和田东 شەرقىي خوتەن.
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