Tingri County
Tingri County is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries, the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsangpo which flow south into Nepal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 12,600 residents
- Description: county in Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Dingri”, “dingri xian”, “Dingri Xian”, “ko=딩르현”, “Ting-jih Hsien”, “Tingri”, and “Tingri Xian”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shelkar.
Shelkar
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shelkar or Shekar, also called New Tingri, is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.
Tingri County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.6627° or 28° 39′ 46″ northLongitude
87.1233° or 87° 7′ 24″ eastPopulation
12,600Elevation
4,640 metres (15,223 feet)Open location code
7MW9M47F+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 244082063OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1279878Wikidata ID
Q1026103
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Tingri County” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Տինգրի”
- Bulgarian: “Тингри”
- Catalan: “xian de Tingri”
- Cebuano: “Tingri”
- Chinese: “Dìngrì Xiàn”
- Chinese: “Tingri Koān”
- Chinese: “定日”
- Chinese: “定日县”
- Chinese: “定日縣”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Tingri”
- Dutch: “Tingri (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Tingri Dzong”
- Dutch: “Tingri Xian”
- Dutch: “Tingri Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Tingri”
- French: “Comte de Tingri”
- French: “Comté de Tingri”
- French: “Dingri”
- French: “Tingri”
- French: “xian de Tingri”
- French: “Xian de Tingri”
- Gan Chinese: “定日县”
- German: “Dingri Dzong”
- German: “Dìngrì Xiàn”
- German: “Dingri”
- German: “Tingri”
- Hebrew: “טינגרי”
- Italian: “Contea di Tingri”
- Japanese: “ティンリ県”
- Japanese: “定日県”
- Kashmiri: “تِنٛگری کاؤنٹی”
- Korean: “딩르현”
- Korean: “팅리현”
- Kurdish: “parêzgeha Tingriyê”
- Kurdish: “Tingri”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tingri-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tingri”
- Norwegian: “Tingri”
- Persian: “شهرستان تینگری”
- Polish: “Tingri”
- Russian: “Дингри”
- Russian: “Тингри”
- Slovenian: “Tingri”
- Spanish: “Tingri”
- Swedish: “Tingri”
- Tibetan: “Tingri Xian”
- Tibetan: “Tingri”
- Tibetan: “དིང་རི་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “དིང་རི་རྫོང་”
- Ukrainian: “Тінгрі”
- Urdu: “تینگری کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Định Nhật”
- Vietnamese: “Tingri”
- Western Panjabi: “تینگری کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “定日县”
- Yue Chinese: “定日”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 定日县政府 and Shelkar Chode Monastery.
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