Turpan
Turpan or Turfan is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It has an area of 69,759 km2 and a population of 693,988.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 694,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Xinjiang, China
- Also known as: “Lukchun”, “T’u-lu-fan”, “T’u-lu-fan Shih”, “T’u-lu-fan-chen”, “T’u-lu-fan-hsien”, “T’u-lu-fan-shih”, “T’urfang”, “Tourfan”, “Tourpan”, “Tufan”, “Tulufan”, “Tulufan Shi”, “Tulufanshi”, “Tulupan”, “Tulupan Xian”, “Turfan”, “Turfan City”, and “Turpan City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Turpan Museum and emin minaret.
Turpan Museum
Museum
Photo: Zossolino, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Turpan Museum is a museum in Turpan, Xinjiang, China. It has items from the Tang dynasty excavated from the Astana Graves which are located outside the town. Items include ancient silks, clothes and preserved corpses.
emin minaret
Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 es.
The Emin Minaret or Emin Tower stands by the Uyghur mosque located in Turfan, Xinjiang, China. At 44 meters it is the tallest minaret in China. The minaret is considered the most famous Islamic monument in the county.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Putao.
Putao
Town
Putao is a town of Gaochang District, Turpan, Xinjiang, China. As of 2020, it has three residential communities and five villages under its administration.
Turpan
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Dzungarian, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.9425° or 42° 56′ 33″ northLongitude
89.1796° or 89° 10′ 47″ eastPopulation
694,000Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)IATA airport code
TLQOpen location code
8MJFW5VH+2ROpenStreetMap ID
node 244082008OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Turpan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توربان”
- Asturian: “Turpan”
- Azerbaijani: “Turfan”
- Basque: “Turfan”
- Basque: “Turpan prefektura”
- Basque: “Turpan”
- Belarusian: “Турфан”
- Belarusian: “Турфанская акруга”
- Bengali: “তুরফান”
- Bulgarian: “Турфан”
- Catalan: “Turfan”
- Cebuano: “Turpan Diqu”
- Chinese: “Tǔlǔfān Shì”
- Chinese: “Turpan Chhī”
- Chinese: “吐魯番”
- Chinese: “吐魯番市”
- Chinese: “吐鲁番”
- Chinese: “吐鲁番县”
- Chinese: “吐鲁番市”
- Croatian: “Turpan”
- Czech: “Turfan”
- Danish: “Turfan”
- Danish: “Turpan”
- Dutch: “Turpan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توربان”
- Esperanto: “Turfan”
- Estonian: “Turpani ringkond”
- Finnish: “Turfan”
- Finnish: “Turpan”
- French: “préfecture de Tourfan”
- French: “Tourfan”
- French: “Tourpan”
- French: “Turfan”
- Gan Chinese: “吐鲁番市”
- German: “Tulufan”
- German: “Turfan”
- German: “Turpan”
- German: “Turpansenke”
- Greek: “Τούρπαν”
- Gujarati: “તુર્પાન”
- Hebrew: “טורפאן”
- Hebrew: “טורפן”
- Hindi: “तुरफ़ान”
- Hungarian: “Turfan”
- Hungarian: “Turfán”
- Hungarian: “Turpan”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Turfan”
- Indonesian: “Turpan”
- Irish: “Turpan”
- Italian: “Turfan”
- Japanese: “トゥルファン地区”
- Japanese: “トルファン市”
- Japanese: “吐魯番地区”
- Kannada: “ಟರ್ಪನ್”
- Kikuyu: “Turpan”
- Korean: “투루판 시”
- Korean: “투루판시”
- Korean: “투르판 지구”
- Latvian: “Turfano”
- Lithuanian: “Turfanas”
- Lithuanian: “Turfano prefektūra”
- Malagasy: “Turpan”
- Malay: “Turpan”
- Marathi: “तुर्पण”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Turpan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Turpan-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Турфан тойрог”
- Mongolian: “Турфан хот”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Turfan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turfan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turpan”
- Norwegian: “Turfan”
- Ossetian: “Турфан”
- Panjabi: “ਤੁਰਪਾਨ”
- Persian: “تورفان”
- Persian: “ولایت تورفان”
- Polish: “Turfan”
- Polish: “Turpan”
- Portuguese: “Turpan”
- Romanian: “Turpan”
- Russian: “Турфан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Turpan”
- Sinhala: “ටර්පාන්”
- Slovak: “Turfan”
- Slovenian: “Turpan”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورفان”
- Spanish: “Turfan”
- Spanish: “Turfán”
- Spanish: “Turpan”
- Swedish: “Turpan”
- Tamil: “டூர்பான்”
- Tatar: “Турфан”
- Telugu: “తుర్పాన్”
- Thai: “ทัวปาน”
- Turkish: “Turfan”
- Uighur: “Turpan”
- Uighur: “Турпан”
- Uighur: “تۇرپان شەھىرى”
- Uighur: “تۇرپان ۋىلايىتى”
- Uighur: “تۇرپان”
- Ukrainian: “Турфан”
- Urdu: “تورپان”
- Uzbek: “Turfon”
- Venetian: “Turfan”
- Vietnamese: “Thổ Lỗ Phan”
- Vietnamese: “Thổ Lỗ Phiên”
- Vietnamese: “Thổ Lỗ Phồn”
- Vietnamese: “Turfan/Thổ Lỗ Phiên”
- Vietnamese: “Turfan”
- Vietnamese: “Turpan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Turpan”
- Welsh: “Turfan”
- Western Panjabi: “تورفان”
- Wu Chinese: “吐鲁番市”
- Yue Chinese: “吐魯番”
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