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.
- Type: City with 694,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Xinjiang, China
- Also known as: “Lukchun”, “préfecture de Tourfan”, “Prefekturet Turfan”, “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”, “Thổ Lỗ Phan”, “Thổ Lỗ Phiên”, “Thổ Lỗ Phồn”, “Tourpan”, “Tufan”, “Tulufan”, “Tulufan Shi”, “Tulufanshi”, “Tulupan”, “Tulupan Xian”, “Turfan”, “Turfan City”, “Turpan City”, “Turpansenke”, “투르판 지구”, “トゥルファン地区”, “吐魯番地区”, and “吐鲁番市 تۇرپان”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Turpan Museum and emin minaret.
emin minaret
Monument
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Putao.
Turpan
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Dzungarian, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.9425° or 42° 56′ 33″ north
Longitude
89.1796° or 89° 10′ 47″ east
Population
694,000
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
IATA airport code
TLQ
Open location code
8MJFW5VH+2R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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: “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: “Tourfan”
- French: “Turfan”
- Gan Chinese: “吐鲁番市”
- German: “Turpan”
- Greek: “Τούρπαν”
- Gujarati: “તુર્પાન”
- Hebrew: “טורפאן”
- Hebrew: “טורפן”
- Hindi: “तुरफ़ान”
- Hungarian: “Turpan”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Turfan”
- Indonesian: “Turpan”
- Irish: “Turpan”
- Italian: “Turfan”
- Japanese: “トルファン市”
- Kannada: “ಟರ್ಪನ್”
- Kikuyu: “Turpan”
- Kirghiz: “Турпан”
- Korean: “투루판 시”
- Korean: “투루판시”
- Latvian: “Turfano”
- Lithuanian: “Turfanas”
- Lithuanian: “Turfano prefektūra”
- Malagasy: “Turpan”
- Malay: “Turpan”
- Marathi: “तुर्पण”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Turpan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Turpan Chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Turpan-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Турфан тойрог”
- Mongolian: “Турфан хот”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turfan”
- Norwegian: “Turfan”
- Ossetian: “Турфан”
- Panjabi: “ਤੁਰਪਾਨ”
- Persian: “تورفان”
- Persian: “ولایت تورفان”
- Polish: “Turfan”
- Polish: “Turpan”
- Portuguese: “Turfã”
- Portuguese: “Turpan”
- Romanian: “Turpan”
- Russian: “Турфан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Turpan”
- Sinhala: “ටර්පාන්”
- Slovak: “Turfan”
- Slovenian: “Turpan”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورفان”
- Spanish: “Turfán”
- 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: “Turfan/Thổ Lỗ Phiên”
- Vietnamese: “Turfan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Turpan”
- Welsh: “Turfan”
- Western Panjabi: “تورفان”
- Wu Chinese: “吐鲁番市”
- Yue Chinese: “吐魯番”
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