Qonggyai County
Qonggyai County or Chongye is a county under jurisdiction of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 12,800 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Ch’iung-chieh Hsien”, “Chonggyä”, “Chonggyé”, “Chongye”, “Chongye County”, “Qiongjie”, “qiongjie xian”, “Qiongjie Xian”, “Qonggyai Xian”, and “穷结”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tombs of the Tibetan Kings and Riwo Dechen Monastery.
Tombs of the Tibetan Kings
The Valley of the Kings or Chongye Valley is a valley in Qonggyai County, Tibet, China. It is the location of eight tumuli, which are believed to be the burial mounds of eight to ten Tibetan rulers.
Riwo Dechen Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Jan Reurink, CC BY 2.0.
Riwo Dechen Monastery is a Buddhist temple.
Taktsé Castle
Ruins
Taktsé Castle was a castle located in the Chingwa district of Chonggyä in central Tibet. According to legend, it was home to the kings of Tibet before Songtsen Gampo moved his capital to Lhasa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qonggyai.
Qonggyai County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Shannan, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.0276° or 29° 1′ 39″ northLongitude
91.683° or 91° 40′ 59″ eastPopulation
12,800Elevation
4,667 metres (15,312 feet)Open location code
7MXH2MHM+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 244081726OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1280215Wikidata ID
Q1364642
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Qonggyai County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Qonggyai Xian”
- Chinese: “Qióngjié Xiàn”
- Chinese: “Qonggyai Koān”
- Chinese: “琼结”
- Chinese: “琼结县”
- Chinese: “瓊結”
- Chinese: “瓊結縣”
- Chinese: “穷结县”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Qonggyai”
- Dutch: “Chonggya”
- Dutch: “Chonggyä”
- Dutch: “Chonggye Dzong”
- Dutch: “Chonggye”
- Dutch: “Chonggyé”
- Dutch: “Qonggyai Xian”
- Dutch: “Qonggyai Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Qonggyai”
- French: “Comte de Qonggyai”
- French: “Comté De Qonggyai”
- French: “Qiongjie”
- French: “Qonggyai”
- French: “xian de Qonggyai”
- French: “Xian de Qonggyai”
- Gan Chinese: “琼结县”
- German: “Chonggye Dzong”
- German: “Chonggye”
- German: “Qiongjie”
- German: “Qonggyai”
- Italian: “Contea di Qonggyai”
- Japanese: “チョンギェー県”
- Japanese: “チョンギェ県”
- Japanese: “瓊結県”
- Korean: “총갸이현”
- Korean: “충제현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Qonggyai-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qonggyai”
- Norwegian: “Qonggyai”
- Persian: “شهرستان چونگگیه”
- Persian: “شهرستان چونگیای”
- Polish: “Qonggyai”
- Russian: “Чонггьэ”
- Spanish: “Qonggyai”
- Swedish: “Chonggye”
- Tibetan: “Qonggyai Xian”
- Tibetan: “Qonggyai”
- Tibetan: “འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་”
- Tibetan: “འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང”
- Urdu: “چونگیائی کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Qonggyai”
- Vietnamese: “Quỳnh Kết”
- Wu Chinese: “琼结县”
- Yue Chinese: “瓊結”
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