Gonjo County
Gonjo County is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Sichuan province to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 11,300 residents
- Description: county in Chamdo, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Gongjue County”, “gongjue xian”, “Gonjo”, “Konjo”, “Konjo County”, and “Kung-chiao Hsien”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palace of King Darub.
Palace of King Darub
Palace
Palace of King Darub, locally referred to as Zongkar, is the earliest surviving royal complex in Gonjo County, Tibet. Built during the Tibetan Empire after Darub was enfeoffed as a regional king, it served as the political and religious center of eastern Kham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bolo.
Bolo
Town
Bolo is a town in and the seat of Gonjo County, eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, Western China.
Gonjo County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Qamdo, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.8627° or 30° 51′ 46″ northLongitude
98.2704° or 98° 16′ 13″ eastPopulation
11,300Elevation
4,324 metres (14,186 feet)Open location code
8M2WV77C+34OpenStreetMap ID
node 244080426OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1281166Wikidata ID
Q1026147
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Gonjo County” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Gòngjué Xiàn”
- Chinese: “Gonjo Koān”
- Chinese: “貢覺”
- Chinese: “貢覺縣”
- Chinese: “贡觉”
- Chinese: “贡觉县”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Gonjo”
- Dutch: “Gojo (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Gojo Dzong”
- Dutch: “Gojo”
- Dutch: “Gongjue Xian”
- Dutch: “Gòngjué Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Gonjo Dzong”
- Dutch: “Gonjo Xian”
- Dutch: “Gonjo Xiàn”
- French: “Comte de Gonjo”
- French: “Comté de Gonjo”
- French: “Gongjue”
- French: “Gonjo”
- French: “xian de Gonjo”
- French: “Xian de Gonjo”
- Gan Chinese: “贡觉县”
- German: “Gojo Dzong”
- German: “Gongjue”
- German: “Gonjo”
- German: “Konjo”
- Hebrew: “מחוז גונג’ו”
- Italian: “Contea di Gonjo”
- Italian: “Gonjo”
- Japanese: “ゴンジョ県”
- Japanese: “貢覚県”
- Korean: “곤조현”
- Korean: “궁줴현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gonjo-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gonjo”
- Norwegian: “Gonjo”
- Persian: “شهرستان گونجو”
- Polish: “Gonjo”
- Russian: “Гонджо”
- Swedish: “Gonjo”
- Tibetan: “Konjo Xian”
- Tibetan: “Konjo”
- Tibetan: “གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་”
- Tibetan: “མགོ་ཇོ་རྫོང་།”
- Ukrainian: “Гонджо”
- Urdu: “گونجو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Cống Giác”
- Vietnamese: “Gonjo”
- Wu Chinese: “贡觉县”
- Yue Chinese: “貢覺”
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