Yatung
Yatung or Yadong, also known as Shasima, is the principal town in the Chumbi Valley or Yadong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is also its administrative headquarters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: town in Yadong County, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Chomo”, “Dromo”, “Hsia-ssu-ma”, “Sharsingma”, “Shashima”, “Shasima”, “Xarsingma”, “Xiasima”, “Ya-tung”, “Yadong”, “Yadong Xian”, “Zhuomu Xian”, and “亚东”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chumbi and Chema.
Chumbi
Village
Chumbi is a historic village in the Chumbi Valley or the Yadong County of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is in the valley of the Amo Chu River, where the route from Sikkim's Cho La Pass meets the Amo Chu Valley.
Chema
Village
Chema or Phema, is a village in the Chumbi Valley or Yadong County in the Tibet region of China. It is in the valley of Amo Chu where the route from Sikkim's Nathu La pass meets the Amo Chu valley. Chema is situated 5 km south of Yatung.
Chumbi Valley
Locality
Photo: Ernst Schäfer, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Chumbi Valley, called Dromo or Tromo in Tibetan, is a valley in the Himalayas that projects southwards from the Tibetan plateau, intervening between Sikkim and Bhutan. Chumbi Valley is situated 6 km south of Yatung.
Yatung
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.488° or 27° 29′ 17″ northLongitude
88.90569° or 88° 54′ 21″ eastElevation
3,677 metres (12,064 feet)United Nations Location Code
CN YDZOpen location code
7MVCFWQ4+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 2510138998OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1279754Wikidata ID
Q3572013
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Yatung” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سارسينغما”
- Asturian: “Shasima”
- Cebuano: “Xarsingma (kapital sa gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, Tibet Autonomous Region, lat 27,49, long 88,95)”
- Cebuano: “Xarsingma”
- Chinese: “Xiàsīmǎ Zhèn”
- Chinese: “下司马”
- Chinese: “下司马镇”
- Chinese: “亚东县”
- Chinese: “卓木县”
- Dutch: “Yatung (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Yatung”
- French: “Yatoung”
- French: “Yatung”
- Gan Chinese: “下司马镇”
- Greek: “Σάρσινγκμα”
- Hebrew: “יאטונג”
- Persian: “شارسینگما”
- Russian: “Сясыма”
- Russian: “Шарсингма”
- Swedish: “Xarsingma”
- Tibetan: “Xarsingma”
- Tibetan: “ཤར་གསིང་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Welsh: “Xarsingma”
- Wu Chinese: “下司马镇”
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