Lianmuqin (,
Uyghur: ) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
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 ...
, Xinjiang. It is located on
China National Highway 312 about 20 km west of
Shanshan Town (Shanshan County's county seat), on the way to
Turpan
Turpan (also known as Turfan or Tulufan, , ug, تۇرپان) is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and a population of 632,000 (2015).
Geonyms
The original name of the cit ...
.
Located in the northern foothills of the
Flaming Mountains
The Flaming Mountains () or Huoyan Mountains, are barren, eroded, red sandstone hills in the Tian Shan of Xinjiang. They lie near the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert and east of the city of Turpan. Their striking gullies and trenches caused b ...
, Lianmuqin is known for a number of paleontological finds. The
is named after it, and the
Subashi Formation, after the nearby village of Subashi (), which, however, is part not of Lianmuqin Town but of
Tuyugou Township (
吐峪沟乡).
Populated places in Xinjiang
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