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 .
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  • Type: City with 242,000 residents
  • Description: county
  • Also known as: “P’i-chan”, “Pichang”, “Piqan County”, “Pitschuang”, “Shan-shan-ch’eng”, “Shan-shan-chen”, “Shan-shan-hsien”, “Shanshan”, “Shanshan Xian”, and “Shanshar”

Shanshan County

Latitude
42.87624° or 42° 52′ 35″ north
Longitude
90.21683° or 90° 13′ 1″ east
Population
242,000
Elevation
367 metres (1,204 feet)
IATA airport code
SXJ
United Nations Location Code
CN SXJ
Open location code
8MJGV6G8+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4637531510
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1529214
Wiki­data ID
Q1023110
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Shanshan County” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Shanshan (kapital sa gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, lat 42,87, long 90,20)”
  • Cebuano: “Shanshan”
  • Chinese: “Shànshàn Zhèn”
  • Chinese: “Siān-siān-koān”
  • Chinese: “鄯善”
  • Chinese: “鄯善县”
  • Chinese: “鄯善縣”
  • Chinese: “鲁陈城”
  • Dutch: “Piqan”
  • French: “Comte de Piqan”
  • French: “Comté De Piqan”
  • French: “Piqan”
  • French: “Shanshan”
  • French: “xian de Piqan”
  • French: “Xian de Piqan”
  • Gan Chinese: “鄯善县”
  • German: “Piqan”
  • Italian: “Contea di Shanshan”
  • Japanese: “ピチャン県”
  • Japanese: “鄯善県”
  • Korean: “산산현”
  • Korean: “피찬 현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Siān-siān-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piqan”
  • Norwegian: “Piqan”
  • Persian: “شهرستان پیچان”
  • Persian: “شهرستان شانشان”
  • Polish: “Piqan”
  • Polish: “Shanshan”
  • Russian: “Пичан”
  • Russian: “Уезд Шаньшань”
  • Russian: “Шашьшань”
  • Spanish: “Piqan”
  • Swedish: “Piqan”
  • Turkish: “Piçan İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Piçan”
  • Uighur: “Pichan nahiyisi”
  • Uighur: “Pichan”
  • Uighur: “Пичан”
  • Uighur: “پىچان ناھىيىسى”
  • Uighur: “پىچان”
  • Ukrainian: “Пічан”
  • Urdu: “شانشان کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Piqan”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiện Thiện, Turfan”
  • Wu Chinese: “鄯善县”
  • Yue Chinese: “鄯善縣”

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