Yushu
Gyêgu Subdistrict, formerly a part of the Gyêgu or Jiegu town is a township-level division in Yushu, Yushu TAP, Qinghai, China. The name Gyêgu is still a common name for the Yushu city proper, which include Gyêgu subdistrict and three other subdistricts evolved from the former Gyêgu town.Photo: Gruschke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 141,000 residents
- Description: subdistrict in Yushu, Qinghai China
- Also known as: “Chieh-ku”, “Chieh-ku-chen”, “Chieh-ku-shih”, “Chieh-ku-to”, “Dzhekundo”, “Gyegu”, “Gyêgu”, “Gyêgu Subdistrict”, “Jekundo”, “Jiegu”, “Kai-ku-to”, “Yargündo”, “Yü-shu-hsien”, and “玉树市”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gyêgu Monastery.
Gyêgu Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Gruschke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gyêgu Monastery is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 4 km east of Yushu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yushu.
Yushu
Photo: Gruschke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yushu, also Romanized as Yüxü, is a county-level city of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Southern Qinghai Province, China. It comprises a surface area of 13,462 square kilometres.
Yushu
- Categories: subdistrict in China and locality
- Location: Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.0069° or 33° 0′ 25″ northLongitude
96.9739° or 96° 58′ 26″ eastPopulation
141,000Elevation
3,688 metres (12,100 feet)Open location code
8M5R2X4F+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 13644736739OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1281105Wikidata ID
Q1558594
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Wu Chinese—“Yushu” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “結古”
- Chinese: “結古多”
- Chinese: “结古”
- Chinese: “结古多”
- Chinese: “结古街道”
- Chinese: “结古镇”
- Dutch: “Gyegu”
- Dutch: “Gyêgu”
- Dutch: “Jyekundo”
- Dutch: “Kyegu Do”
- French: “Gyêgu”
- French: “Jyekundo”
- Gan Chinese: “结古街道”
- German: “Gyegu Zhen”
- German: “Gyêgu Zhen”
- German: “Gyegu”
- German: “Gyêgu”
- German: “Jiegu Zhen”
- German: “Jyekundo”
- German: “Kyego Do”
- Hebrew: “ג’יה-גו”
- Japanese: “結古鎮”
- Malagasy: “Gyêgu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyegundo”
- Persian: “گیگو”
- Russian: “Гьегу”
- Russian: “Цзегу”
- Swedish: “Gyegu”
- Swedish: “Gyêgu”
- Swedish: “Jiegu”
- Swedish: “Jyekundo”
- Swedish: “Kyego”
- Swedish: “Kyegudo”
- Swedish: “Kyegundo”
- Swedish: “Kyigudo”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱེ་རྒུ་སྲང་ལམ།”
- Ukrainian: “Г’єгу”
- Wu Chinese: “结古街道”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Yushu Prefecture Museum and 玉树市人民政府.
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