Tunchang County

Tunchang County
屯昌县
County

Location in Hainan
Coordinates: 19°21′58″N 110°9′54″E / 19.36611°N 110.16500°E / 19.36611; 110.16500
Country People's Republic of China
Province Hainan
Population (1999)
  Total 250,059
Time zone UTC+8 (China standard time)

Tunchang County is one of four counties of Hainan 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.

In 1983, a company from Guangxi moved to Tunchang and started raising geoemydid turtles on a farm.[1] They have since moved to a place near Sanya, which is closer to the ocean.

Tunchang deer farm

Climate

See also

References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2004. Retrieved 4 May 2005. , page 15. Their source, with details and photos, is: Shi, Haitao; Parham, James Ford (2000), "Preliminary Observations of a Large Turtle Farm in Hainan Province, People's Republic of China", Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 3: 4–6
  • Media related to Tunchang at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 19°21′58″N 110°09′54″E / 19.366°N 110.165°E / 19.366; 110.165


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