Gyirong Town
Gyirong or Kyirong, Jilong in Chinese and Kerung in Nepalese, is a town situated in the southern part of Gyirong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.- Type: Town
- Description: town in Gyirong county, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Chi-lung”, “Chi-lung-tsung”, “Girang Dzong”, “Gyirong”, “Jilong”, “Kinong Dzong”, “Kirang Dzong”, “Kirong”, “Kirong Dzong”, “Kyerong Dzong”, “Kyirong”, “Kyirong Dzong”, and “Kyirong Town”
Gyirong Town
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.3961° or 28° 23′ 46″ north
Longitude
85.32756° or 85° 19′ 39″ east
Elevation
4,706 metres (15,440 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CN GIR
Open location code
7MW798WH+C2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Gyirong Town” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Gyirong”
- Chinese: “吉隆”
- Chinese: “吉隆镇”
- French: “Gyirong”
- Gan Chinese: “吉隆镇”
- German: “Gyirong”
- Japanese: “吉隆鎮”
- Nepali: “केरुङ”
- Russian: “Гьиронг”
- Tibetan: “Gyirong”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་གྲོང་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་གྲོང”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་རོང་གྲོང་བརྡལ”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་རོང”
- Ukrainian: “Г’їронг”
- Ukrainian: “Ґ’їронґ”
- Urdu: “گئیرونگ قصبہ”
- Western Panjabi: “گئیرونگ قصبہ”
- Wu Chinese: “吉隆镇”
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