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.
- City with about 242,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 370 metres (1,200 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code SXJ
- 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”“Shanshar”“鄯善县 پىچان”
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Latitude
42.87624° or 42° 52′ 34″ north
Longitude
90.21683° or 90° 13′ 1″ east
UN/LOCODE
CN SXJ
Open location code
8MJGV6G8+FP
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OpenStreetMap feature
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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: “鄯善”
- Chinese: “鄯善县”
- Chinese: “鄯善縣”
- Chinese: “鲁陈城”
- Dutch: “Piqan”
- French: “Comté De Piqan”
- French: “Piqan”
- French: “Shanshan”
- 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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