Minsar

Minsar or Moincêr or Menshi is a village and the centre of a township in the of the region of China. Between 1684 and 1950s, it was a treaty enclave of Kingdom of Ladakh, which later in 1846 became princely state of Jammu and Kashmir under British suzerainty.
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  • Town
  • …lies at an elevation of 4,574 metres (15,007 feet)
  • Description: township in Gar County, Ngari, Tibet, China; claimed by India
  • Also known as
    “Alitangga”
    “Alitangka”
    “Men-shih”
    “Menci”
    “Mencix”
    “Menshi”
    “Menze”
    “Mi-ya-erh”
    “Missar”
    “Misser”
    “Moincêr”
    “Moincêr Township”
    “Montser”

Minsar

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Latitude
31.17999° or 31° 10′ 48″ north
Longitude
80.76143° or 80° 45′ 41″ east
Open location code
8M325QH6+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 991515047
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1280546
Wiki­data ID
Q6894631

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Wu Chinese—“Minsar” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “ménshì xiāng”
  • Chinese: “門士鄉”
  • Chinese: “门士”
  • Chinese: “门士乡”
  • Chinese: “阿里塘嘎”
  • Dutch: “Moincêr”
  • Gan Chinese: “门士乡”
  • German: “Menser”
  • German: “Ménshì xiāng”
  • German: “Minsar”
  • German: “Moincêr”
  • Malay: “Moincêr”
  • Russian: “Мёнцер”
  • Tibetan: “Moincêr”
  • Tibetan: “མོན་མཚེར”
  • Tibetan: “མོན་འཚེར་ཤང”
  • Tibetan: “མོན་འཚེར”
  • Wu Chinese: “门士乡”

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