Derge

Derge, officially Gengqing Town, is a town in in in , China. It was once the center of the Kingdom of Derge in .
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  • Type: Town with 88,500 residents
  • Description: township in Dêgê, Garzê, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Bourg de Derge”, “Bourg de Genqing”, “Dege”, “Dêgê”, “Dege Gonchen”, “Dêgê Gönchen”, “Dêqê”, “Dergé”, “Derge (plaats)”, “Geiqê”, “Gengqing Town”, “Gengqing Zhen”, “Gēngqìng Zhèn”, “Genqing”, “Genqing Town”, “Goinqen”, “Goinqên”, “Te-hua”, “Te-ke”, “Te-ko”, “Te-ko-hsien”, “Tehko”, “Teko Kengching”, “Tenko”, “དགོན་ཆེན”, “སྡེ་དགེ་”, and “德格县”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Derge Parkhang and Gonchen Monastery.

Buddhist temple
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The Dêrgê Barkang is the barkang associated to the .

Buddhist temple
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, also known as Derge Monastery…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dêgê.

Photo: NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dege, is in Sichuan Province in south-west .

Derge

Latitude
31.8176° or 31° 49′ 3″ north
Longitude
98.5811° or 98° 34′ 52″ east
Population
88,500
Elevation
4,507 metres (14,787 feet)
Open location code
8M3WRH9J+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 298229720
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1281189
Wiki­data ID
Q1641960
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Derge” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Derge Town”
  • Chinese: “更庆”
  • Chinese: “更庆镇”
  • Dutch: “Derge”
  • French: “Dergué”
  • Gan Chinese: “更庆镇”
  • German: “Gengqing”
  • Italian: “Derge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Derge”
  • Norwegian: “Derge”
  • Russian: “Гэнцин”
  • Russian: “Деге”
  • Spanish: “Derge”
  • Tibetan: “དགོན་ཆེན་ཀྲེན།”
  • Ukrainian: “Гончен”
  • Vietnamese: “Đức Cách”
  • Wu Chinese: “更庆镇”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: 德格县公安局 and 德格汽车站 སྡེ་དགེ་རླངས་འཁོར་འབབ་ཚུགས།.

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