Nêdong
Nêdong District is a district of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Nêdong District has a storied administrative history rooted in its strategic location along the Yarlung River. Tradruk Temple, an important early Buddhist monastery dating to the reign of Songtsen Gampo, is located in the Yarlung Valley in Nêdong as is Yungbulakang Palace.Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 81,600 residents
- Description: District in Shannan, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Nai-tung Hsien”, “Naidong”, “Naidong District”, “Naidong xian”, “Naidong Xian”, “Nedong County”, “Nedong District”, “Nêdong District”, and “Nedong, Shannan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tradruk Temple.
Tradruk Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Esiymbro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tradruk Temple in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say it predates that temple. Tradruk Temple is located in Nêdong County of Lhoka in the Tibet Autonomous Region, about seven kilometres south of the county seat, Tsetang.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tsethang and Changzhug.
Tsethang
Photo: Ernst Schäfer, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Tsetang or Zedang, is the fourth largest city in Tibet and is located in the Yarlung Valley, 183 km southeast of Lhasa in Nedong District of the Shannan Prefecture in the Tibet region of China.
Nêdong
- Categories: district of China and locality
- Location: Shannan, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.2284° or 29° 13′ 42″ northLongitude
91.76° or 91° 45′ 36″ eastPopulation
81,600Elevation
3,557 metres (11,670 feet)Open location code
7MXH6QH5+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 4960798738OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1280470Wikidata ID
Q1364668
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Nêdong” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nêdong barrutia”
- Chinese: “Nǎidōng Qū”
- Chinese: “Naidong xian”
- Chinese: “Nêdong Khu”
- Chinese: “乃东”
- Chinese: “乃东区”
- Chinese: “乃东县”
- Chinese: “乃東”
- Chinese: “乃東區”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Nedong”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Nêdong”
- Dutch: “Nedong (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Nedong Dzong”
- Dutch: “Nedong Xian”
- Dutch: “Nêdong Xian”
- Dutch: “Nêdong Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Nedong”
- French: “Comte de Nedong”
- French: “Comté de nêdong”
- French: “district de Nêdong”
- French: “District de Nêdong”
- French: “Naidong”
- French: “Nêdong”
- French: “Zetang”
- Gan Chinese: “乃东区”
- German: “Naidong”
- German: “Nedong Dzong”
- German: “Nedong”
- German: “Nêdong”
- Hindi: “नेदोंग ज़िला”
- Italian: “Contea di Nedong”
- Italian: “Contea di Nêdong”
- Japanese: “ネドン区”
- Japanese: “ネドン県”
- Japanese: “乃東県”
- Korean: “나이둥 현”
- Korean: “나이둥구”
- Korean: “네동구”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nêdong-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nêdong”
- Norwegian: “Nêdong”
- Persian: “شهرستان ندونگ”
- Persian: “منطقه ندونگ”
- Polish: “Nêdong”
- Russian: “Недонг”
- Slovenian: “Nêdong”
- Spanish: “Nedong”
- Spanish: “Nêdong”
- Swedish: “Nedong”
- Tibetan: “Nêdong Xian”
- Tibetan: “Nêdong”
- Tibetan: “sne gdong chus”
- Tibetan: “sne gdong rdzong”
- Tibetan: “sne’u gdong rdzong”
- Tibetan: “སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས”
- Tibetan: “སྣེ་གདོང་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “སྣེ་གདོང་རྫོང་”
- Tibetan: “སྣེ་གདོང་རྫོང”
- Tibetan: “སྣེ་གདོང”
- Tibetan: “སྣེའུ་གདོང་རྫོང་།”
- Turkish: “Nedong”
- Ukrainian: “Недонг”
- Vietnamese: “Nãi Đông”
- Vietnamese: “Nedong”
- Vietnamese: “Nêdong”
- Wu Chinese: “乃东区”
- Yue Chinese: “乃東”
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