Tunchang County is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
of
Hainan
Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...
Province, People's Republic of China. Its postal code is 571600, and in 1999 its population was 250,059 people. The administrative seat lies at
Tuncheng.
There are four main attractions in this county: The
Muse Lake, The
Standard Model Deer Farm,
Shi Xia Hairui Ancestral Home and the
Wolong Mountain Wolong () may refer to:
People
* Wolong, an alternative name for Zhuge Liang, Chinese politician in Three Kingdoms
* Wolong Sheng (), pen name of Niu Heting (1930–1997), Chinese author
Places
* Wolong Gang (), the former residence of Zhuge Li ...
.
In 1983, a company from
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ...
moved to Tunchang and started raising
geoemydid turtles on a
farm
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is use ...
.
[ , page 15. Their source, with details and photos, is: ] They have since moved to a place near
Sanya
Sanya (; also spelled Samah) is the southernmost city on Hainan Island, and one of the four prefecture-level cities of Hainan Province in South China.
According to the 2020 census, the total population of Sanya was 1,031,396 inhabitants, livi ...
, which is closer to the ocean.
Climate
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Hainan
Hainan uses a slightly different administrative system from other administrative regions of China. Most other provinces are divided entirely into prefecture-level divisions, each of which is then divided entirely into county-level divisions, wh ...
References
*
Official website (Chinese)
External links
*
Tunchang County
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