Gyantse County
Gyantse County officially Gyangzê County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its main settlement is Gyantse Town known for its monasteries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 22,400 residents
- Description: county in Tibet
- Also known as: “Chiang-tzu Hsien”, “Gyangze”, “Gyangze County”, “Gyangzê County”, “Gyantsé”, “Jiangze Xian”, “Jiangzi”, “Jiangzi County”, “jiangzi xian”, and “ko=장쯔현”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palcho Monastery and Gyantse Fortressalt_name.
Palcho Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Alberrosidus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in the Nyangchu river valley in Gyantse, Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region.
Gyantse Fortressalt_name
Photo: Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn), CC BY 2.0.
Gyantse Dzong or Gyantse Fortress is one of the best preserved dzongs in Tibet, perched high above the town of Gyantse on a huge spur of grey brown rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gyantse.
Gyantse
Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder, CC BY 3.0.
Gyantse, officially Gyangzê Town, is a town located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in Tibet, but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities.
Gyantse County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.9149° or 28° 54′ 54″ northLongitude
89.6037° or 89° 36′ 13″ eastPopulation
22,400Elevation
4,502 metres (14,770 feet)Open location code
7MWFWJ73+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 244080419OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1281118Wikidata ID
Q943518
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Gyantse County” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գյանգձե”
- Cebuano: “Jiangzi Xian”
- Chinese: “Gyantse Koān”
- Chinese: “Jiāngzī Xiàn”
- Chinese: “江孜”
- Chinese: “江孜县”
- Dutch: “Gyantse (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Gyantse”
- French: “Gyantsé”
- French: “xian de Gyangzê”
- French: “Xian de Gyangzê”
- Gan Chinese: “江孜县”
- German: “Gyangzê”
- Italian: “Contea di Gyantse”
- Japanese: “ギャンツェ県”
- Korean: “걍체현”
- Korean: “장쯔현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gyantse-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gyangzê”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gyangzē”
- Norwegian: “Gyangzē”
- Persian: “شهرستان گیانتسه”
- Polish: “Gyangzê”
- Russian: “Гьянгдзе”
- Spanish: “Condado de Gyantse”
- Spanish: “Gyangze”
- Spanish: “Gyangzê”
- Swedish: “Gyantse, Shigatse”
- Swedish: “Gyantse”
- Swedish: “Gyantsé”
- Tibetan: “Gyangzê Xian”
- Tibetan: “Gyangzê”
- Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།”
- Ukrainian: “ґ’янґдзе”
- Ukrainian: “Г’янгцзе”
- Urdu: “گئانتسی کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Gyangzê”
- Welsh: “Sir Gyangzê”
- Wu Chinese: “江孜县”
- Yue Chinese: “江孜”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 江孜县人民政府 and 江孜县人民医院.
Xigaze: Must-Visit Destinations
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