Shanshan County
Shanshan County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Piqan County, is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Turpan.Shanshan County
- Type: County
- Also known as: “Pichan”, “Shanshan”, and “鄯善”
- Category: locality
- Location: Turpan, Dzungarian, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
42.2914° or 42° 17′ 29″ north
Longitude
90.6423° or 90° 38′ 32″ east
Elevation
919 metres (3,015 feet)
IATA airport code
SXJ
United Nations Location Code
CN SXJ
Open location code
8MJG7JRR+HW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Shanshan County” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Shànshàn Xiàn”
- Chinese: “鄯善县”
- French: “Xian de Piqan”
- German: “Piqan”
- Korean: “산산현”
- Pinyin: “Píqiāng Xiàn”
- Pinyin: “Shànshàn Xiàn”
- Spanish: “Piqan”
- Uighur: “Piqan Xian”
- Uighur: “Piqan”
- Uighur: “پىچان ناھىيىسى”
- Wu Chinese: “皮羌县”
- Wu Chinese: “墨玉縣”
- Yue Chinese: “皮羌縣”
- Yue Chinese: “鄯善县”
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