Yanyuan County
Yanyuan County is a county in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China, bordering Yunnan province to the west. The county is located in Sichuan's rugged Hengduan Mountains in southwest Sichuan, but the county seat of Yanjing is situated in an unusually flat basin with a 30 km diameter.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 79,800 residents
- Description: county in Liangshan, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Yanyuan”, “Yanyuan Yizu Zizhixian”, “Yen-yüan-i-tsu Tzu-chih-hsien”, “盐井”, and “盐井镇”
Yanyuan County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.4261° or 27° 25′ 34″ northLongitude
101.5075° or 101° 30′ 27″ eastPopulation
79,800Elevation
2,819 metres (9,249 feet)Open location code
7PV3CGG5+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2551567117OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1787039Wikidata ID
Q1200266
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Yanyuan County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yanyuan Xian”
- Chinese: “Iâm-goân-koān”
- Chinese: “Yányuán Xiàn”
- Chinese: “定莋縣”
- Chinese: “盐源”
- Chinese: “盐源县”
- Chinese: “鹽源縣”
- Dutch: “Yanyuan”
- French: “Comte de Yanyuan”
- French: “Comté De Yanyuan”
- French: “xian de Yanyuan”
- French: “Xian de Yanyuan”
- French: “Yanyuan”
- Gan Chinese: “盐源县”
- German: “Yanyuan”
- Hakka Chinese: “Yàm-ngièn-yen”
- Italian: “Contea di Yanyuan”
- Japanese: “塩源県”
- Korean: “옌위안현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Iâm-goân-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yanyuan”
- Norwegian: “Yanyuan”
- Persian: “شهرستان یانیوان”
- Russian: “Яньюань”
- Sichuan Yi: “ꋂꂿꇓꈓ”
- Sichuan Yi: “ꋂꂿꑤ”
- Sichuan Yi: “ꑸꑼꑤ”
- Spanish: “Yanyuan”
- Swedish: “Yanyuan”
- Ukrainian: “Яньцзін”
- Vietnamese: “Diêm Nguyên”
- Wu Chinese: “盐源县”
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