Tanggula Pass
The Tanggu La, Tangla Pass, or Tanggu Pass is a wide mountain pass in Southwest China over 5,000 meters in elevation, used by both the Qinghai–Tibet Highway and Qinghai–Tibet Railway to cross the Tanggula Mountains.
- Mountain saddle with an elevation of 5,231 metres (17,162 feet)
- Description: mountain pass between Qinghai and Tibet
- Also known as“T’ang-ku-la Shan-k’ou”“T’ang’la Shan-k’ou”“Tang La”“Tang Pass”“Tang-la-ngo”“Tanggu La”“Tanggu Pass”“Tanggula Shankou”“Tangla Pass”“Thanglango”
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Latitude
32.88262° or 32° 52′ 57″ north
Longitude
91.91843° or 91° 55′ 6″ east
Open location code
8M4HVWM9+29
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Tanggula Pass” goes by many names.
Pas de TanggulaCatalan
Tanggula ShankouCebuano
Tánggǔlā ShānkǒuChinese
唐古拉山口Chinese
当拉Chinese
průsmyk TanglaCzech
Thang-laCzech
Tanggula ShankouIndonesian
colle di TanggulaItalian
タングラ山口Japanese
タングラ峠Japanese
タンラ峠Japanese
唐古拉峠Japanese
Танг-ЛаRussian
Najviša železnička stanica na svetuSerbian
TanggulaSerbian
Tanggula PassSerbian
TangulaSerbian
Железничка станица ТангулаSerbian
Највиша железничка станица на светуSerbian
Највиша железничка станица у светуSerbian
ТангулаSerbian
Prelaz TanggulaSlovenian
Tanggula ShankouSwedish
Dang LaTibetan
གདང་ལTibetan
ཐང་ཀུ་ལTibetan
མཁལ་དམར་མཁལ་སྔོན་ལTibetan
Tanggula geçidiTurkish
ТанглаUkrainian
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