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Turan

Russia / Tyva / Turan /
 city, district center

Turan (Russian: Тура́н; Tuvan: Туран) is a town and the administrative center of Piy-Khemsky District in the Tuva Republic, Russia, located 70 kilometers (43 mi) northwest of Kyzyl, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 4,981. The name of the town comes from the Turkic word for "saline land."
It was founded in 1885 by Russian settlers from Siberia; town status was granted to it in 1945.
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Coordinates:   52°8'43"N   93°54'55"E
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