Derge
Derge, officially Gengqing Town, is a town in Dêgê County in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China. It was once the center of the Kingdom of Derge in Kham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: township in Dêgê, Garzê, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Dege”, “Dege Gonchen”, “Dêgê Gönchen”, “Dêqê”, “Derge Town”, “Geiqê”, “Gengqing”, “Gengqing Town”, “Gengqing Zhen”, “Genqing”, “Genqing Town”, “Goinqen”, “Goinqên”, “Te-hua”, “Te-ke”, “Te-ko”, “Te-ko-hsien”, “Tehko”, “Teko Kengching”, “Tenko”, and “德格县”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Derge Parkhang and Gonchen Monastery.
Derge Parkhang
Buddhist temple
Photo: Ljbonner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dêrgê Barkang is the barkang associated to the Goinqên Monastery.
Gonchen Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gonchen Monastery, also known as Derge Monastery, is a large Sakya Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the town of Derge, in Sichuan, China. Gonchen is located in the ethnic Tibetan cultural region of Kham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dêgê.
Dêgê
Photo: NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dege, is in Sichuan Province in south-west China. The city is famous for its Tibetan lamasery which hosts an invaluable treasure of wooden printing blocks with Tibetan Buddhist texts.
Derge
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Ganzi, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.81758° or 31° 49′ 3″ northLongitude
98.58109° or 98° 34′ 52″ eastElevation
4,008 metres (13,150 feet)Open location code
8M3WRH9J+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 298229720OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Derge” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Derge Town”
- Chinese: “Gēngqìng Zhèn”
- Chinese: “更庆”
- Chinese: “更庆镇”
- Dutch: “Derge (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Derge”
- Dutch: “Goinqên”
- French: “Bourg de Derge”
- French: “Bourg de Genqing”
- French: “Dergé”
- French: “Dergué”
- French: “Genqing”
- Gan Chinese: “更庆镇”
- German: “Gengqing”
- Italian: “Dêgê”
- Italian: “Derge”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Derge”
- Norwegian: “Derge”
- Russian: “Гэнцин”
- Russian: “Деге”
- Spanish: “Derge”
- Tibetan: “དགོན་ཆེན་ཀྲེན།”
- Tibetan: “དགོན་ཆེན”
- Tibetan: “སྡེ་དགེ་”
- Ukrainian: “Гончен”
- Vietnamese: “Đức Cách”
- Wu Chinese: “更庆镇”
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Notable Places Nearby
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