Yatung

Yatung or Yadong, also known as Shasima, is the principal town in the or in the of China. It is also its administrative headquarters.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: town in Yadong County, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Chomo”, “Dromo”, “Hsia-ssu-ma”, “Sharsingma”, “Shashima”, “Shasima”, “Shasima town”, “Xarsingma”, “Xiasima”, “Ya-tung”, “Yadong”, “Yadong Xian”, “Zhuomu Xian”, “下司马镇 ཤར་གསིང་མ།”, and “亚东”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chumbi and Chema.

Village
is a historic village in the or the of the of China. It is in the valley of the , where the route from 's Cho La Pass meets the Amo Chu Valley.

Village
or Phema, is a village in the or in the region of China. It is in the valley of Amo Chu where the route from 's pass meets the Amo Chu valley. is situated 5 km south of Yatung.

Locality
Photo: Ernst Schäfer, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The , called Dromo or Tromo in Tibetan, is a valley in the that projects southwards from the Tibetan plateau, intervening between and . is situated 6 km south of Yatung.

Yatung

Latitude
27.488° or 27° 29′ 17″ north
Longitude
88.90569° or 88° 54′ 21″ east
Elevation
3,677 metres (12,064 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CN YDZ
Open location code
7MVCFWQ4+67
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2510138998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1279754
Wiki­data 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”
  • Chinese: “社区居委会”
  • Dutch: “Yatung (plaats)”
  • Dutch: “Yatung”
  • French: “Yatoung”
  • French: “Yatung”
  • Gan Chinese: “下司马镇”
  • German: “Xarsingma”
  • Greek: “Σάρσινγκμα”
  • Hebrew: “יאטונג”
  • Persian: “شارسینگما”
  • Russian: “Сясыма”
  • Russian: “Шарсингма”
  • Swedish: “Xarsingma”
  • Tibetan: “Xarsingma”
  • Tibetan: “ཤར་གསིང་མ་གྲོང་བརྡལ”
  • Tibetan: “ཤར་གསིང་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཤར་གསིང་མ”
  • Welsh: “Xarsingma”
  • Wu Chinese: “下司马镇”

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