Kunggar
Kunggar or Maizhokunggar is a small town and the seat of Maizhokunggar County in the Lhasa Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is especially noted for its pottery, which non-corrodible, heat retaining and in an ethnic style.- Type: Town with 49,500 residents
- Description: town in Maizhokunggar, Lhasa, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Gongka”, “Gungkar”, “Kung-k’a”, “Kungga”, “Maizhokunggar”, “Meda Kongkar Dzong”, “Medrogungkhar”, “Medu Kongkar Dzong”, “Medu Kongkar-dsong”, “Medugonkar”, “Metrokongkar”, “Metu Kongkar Dzong”, “Mo-chu-kung-ch’ia”, “Mo-chu-kung-k’a”, and “Mòzhúgōngkă Xiàn”
Kunggar
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.84269° or 29° 50′ 34″ northLongitude
91.73177° or 91° 43′ 54″ eastPopulation
49,500Elevation
3,818 metres (12,526 feet)Open location code
7MXHRPVJ+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 8069469358OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1280797Wikidata ID
Q6444525
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Kunggar” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kunggar”
- Chinese: “gōngkǎ zhèn”
- Chinese: “工卡”
- Chinese: “工卡镇”
- Gan Chinese: “工卡镇”
- German: “Kunggar”
- Malay: “Kunggar”
- Persian: “کوگار”
- Tibetan: “གུང་དཀར་ཆོས་འཁོར།”
- Tibetan: “གུང་དཀར”
- Ukrainian: “Кунггар”
- Welsh: “Kunggar”
- Wu Chinese: “工卡镇”
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