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.- County
- …lies at an elevation of around 920 metres (3,020 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code SXJ
- Also known as“Pichan”“Shanshan”“鄯善”
- Category: locality
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Latitude
42.2914° or 42° 17′ 29″ north
Longitude
90.6423° or 90° 38′ 32″ east
UN/LOCODE
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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