Zanda County
Zanda County or Tsamda County is a county in the Ngari Prefecture to the extreme west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the Guge kingdom.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 8,450 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Cha-ta Hsien”, “Thoding (Tsamda)”, “Tsada County”, “Tsamda County”, “Zanda Town”, “Zanda Xian”, “zha da”, “Zhada”, “zhada xian”, and “Zhada Xian”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Toling Monastery.
Toling Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Dieter Schuh, CC BY 3.0.
Tholing Monastery is the oldest monastery in the Ngari Prefecture of western Tibet. It is situated in Tholing, Zanda County, near the border with India.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tholing.
Tholing
Town
Photo: Dieter Schuh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tholing, also called Zanda, is a town and the seat of Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, in the west of Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.
Zanda County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Ngari, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.4817° or 31° 28′ 54″ northLongitude
79.8007° or 79° 48′ 3″ eastPopulation
8,450Elevation
3,770 metres (12,369 feet)Open location code
8J3XFRJ2+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 244082831OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1279526Wikidata ID
Q146601
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Zanda County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Zanda Xian”
- Chinese: “Zanda Koān”
- Chinese: “Zanda Xian”
- Chinese: “劄達”
- Chinese: “扎达”
- Chinese: “札达”
- Chinese: “札达县”
- Dutch: “Tsada”
- French: “xian de Zanda”
- French: “Xian de Zanda”
- French: “Zanda”
- Gan Chinese: “札达县”
- German: “Zanda”
- Hindi: “ज़ान्दा ज़िला”
- Hindi: “त्सादा ज़िला”
- Italian: “Contea di Zanda”
- Japanese: “ツァンダ県”
- Korean: “자다현”
- Korean: “찬다현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zanda-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zanda”
- Norwegian: “Zanda”
- Persian: “شهرستان زاندا”
- Polish: “Zanda”
- Russian: “Дзанда”
- Spanish: “Zanda”
- Spanish: “Zhada”
- Swedish: “Tsada, Ngari”
- Swedish: “Tsada”
- Tibetan: “rtsa mda‘ rdzong”
- Tibetan: “Zanda Xian”
- Tibetan: “Zanda”
- Tibetan: “རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།”
- Urdu: “زاندا کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Zanda”
- Wu Chinese: “札达县”
- Yue Chinese: “劄達”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tholing neighbourhood committee and Daming.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thoding Park and Police check point.
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