Dzongka
Dzongka or Zongga is a town and the administrative headquarters of Gyirong County in the southwestern Tibet region of China bordering Nepal. Being the administrative headquarters, it is also sometimes referred to as "Gyirong Dzong" or "Gyirong Town", but it is different from the original Kyirong Town in the southern part of the county.- Type: Town
- Description: town-level administrative division in Gyirong County, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Chi-lung”, “Dzongkha”, “Gyirong”, “Jilong Xian”, “Jongka”, “Jongka Dzong”, “Jongkha”, “Jongkha Dzong”, “Jung-ha”, “Jung-ha-tsung”, “Jung-ka”, “Jung-ka-tsung”, “Songka-dzong”, “Tsung-ka”, “zong ga”, “Zongga”, “宗噶”, and “宗噶镇”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gyirong.
Gyirong
Photo: Nicolai Bangsgaard, CC BY 2.0.
Kyirong or Gyirong County, also known by its Chinese name Jilong, is a county of the Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is famous for its mild climatic conditions and its abundant vegetation which is unusual for the Tibetan plateau.
Dzongka
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.85621° or 28° 51′ 22″ northLongitude
85.29658° or 85° 17′ 48″ eastElevation
5,622 metres (18,445 feet)Open location code
7MW7V74W+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2524790700OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Dzongka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زونغا”
- Asturian: “Zongga”
- Bengali: “জঙ্গা”
- Chinese: “Zōng gá zhèn”
- Chinese: “吉隆县”
- Chinese: “宗嘎”
- Chinese: “宗嘎镇”
- Danish: “Zongga”
- Dutch: “Zongga”
- Finnish: “Zongga”
- Gan Chinese: “宗嘎镇”
- German: “Zongga”
- Greek: “Ζόνγκα”
- Gujarati: “ઝોંગ્ગા”
- Hindi: “ज़ोंगा”
- Indonesian: “Zongga”
- Italian: “Zongga”
- Japanese: “ゾンガ”
- Kannada: “ಜೊಂಗ್ಗಾ”
- Korean: “종가”
- Latvian: “Zonga”
- Lithuanian: “Zonga”
- Malay: “Zongga”
- Marathi: “झोंगा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zongga”
- Persian: “زونگا”
- Polish: “Zongga”
- Russian: “Дзонгга”
- Russian: “Цзунга”
- Sinhala: “සොන්ගා”
- Swedish: “Zongga (häradshuvudort i Kina, Tibet Autonomous Region, lat 29,00, long 85,25)”
- Swedish: “Zongga”
- Tamil: “சோங்கா”
- Telugu: “జోంగా”
- Thai: “ซงกุลดัค”
- Tibetan: “Zongga”
- Tibetan: “རྫོང་དགའ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Tibetan: “རྫོང་དགའ”
- Turkish: “Zongga”
- Ukrainian: “Цзонга”
- Urdu: “زونججا”
- Vietnamese: “Zongga”
- Welsh: “Zongga”
- Wu Chinese: “宗嘎镇”
Localities in the Area
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