Mêdog County
Mêdog, formerly known as Pemako, is a county of Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Pemako is considered famous because it is the Nyingma master Dudjom Rinpoche's birthplace, and it is a prophesied refuge for Tibetan Buddhists by Padmasambhava.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 6,000 residents
- Description: county in Nyingchi, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Medog”, “Medog County”, “Metok”, “Mo-t’o Hsien”, “Motou Xian”, “Motuo”, and “Motuo County”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mêdog Town.
Mêdog Town
Town
Mêdog, Metok, or Motuo is a town in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Metok town is the seat of Mêdog County, within the administration of Nyingchi Prefecture.
Mêdog County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Nyingchi, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.3285° or 29° 19′ 42″ northLongitude
95.3309° or 95° 19′ 51″ eastPopulation
6,000Elevation
930 metres (3,051 feet)Open location code
7MXQ88HJ+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 4595873793OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1280587Wikidata ID
Q1028177
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Mêdog County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Motuo Xian”
- Chinese: “Mêdog Koān”
- Chinese: “mòtuō xiàn”
- Chinese: “白马冈”
- Chinese: “墨脫”
- Chinese: “墨脫縣”
- Chinese: “墨脱”
- Chinese: “墨脱县”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Medog”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Mêdog”
- Dutch: “Medog Xian”
- Dutch: “Mêdog Xian”
- Dutch: “Mêdog Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Medog”
- Dutch: “Mêdog”
- Dutch: “Metog Dzong”
- Dutch: “Metog”
- Dutch: “Motuo Xian”
- Dutch: “Mòtuō Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Motuo”
- French: “Comte de Medog”
- French: “Comté de Mêdog”
- French: “Medog”
- French: “Mêdog”
- French: “Motuo”
- French: “xian de Mêdog”
- French: “Xian de Mêdog”
- Gan Chinese: “墨脱县”
- German: “Medog”
- German: “Mêdog”
- German: “Metog Dzong”
- German: “Metok”
- German: “Motuo”
- Hindi: “मेतोग ज़िला”
- Italian: “Contea di Mêdog”
- Japanese: “メトク県”
- Japanese: “墨脱県”
- Korean: “메독현”
- Korean: “모퉈현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mêdog-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mêdog”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Motuo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pemakö”
- Norwegian: “Mêdog”
- Persian: “شهرستان مدوگ”
- Polish: “Mêdog”
- Russian: “Медог”
- Spanish: “Medog”
- Swedish: “Metog”
- Tibetan: “Mêdog Xian”
- Tibetan: “Mêdog”
- Tibetan: “མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་།”
- Ukrainian: “Медог”
- Urdu: “معدوگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Mặc Thoát”
- Vietnamese: “Medog”
- Vietnamese: “Mêdog”
- Wu Chinese: “墨脱县”
- Yue Chinese: “墨脫”
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