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Gar County

Gar County, formerly Senge Tsangpo County, is a district in the of the western of China. The main town is , also called "Gar", on account of being the county seat, and "Ali", on account of being the seat of Ngari Prefecture.
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  • Type: City with 31,100 residents
  • Description: county in Tibet Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
  • Also known as: “Ga’er County”, “gaer xian”, “Gar”, and “Ka-erh Hsien”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ali.

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is the capital of in far western . Confusingly, the town is also known by its Tibetan name Ngari, its county name Gar, or after the neighboring river, which is Shiquanhe in Chinese and Sênggêzangbo in Tibetan.

Gar County

Latitude
32.4945° or 32° 29′ 40″ north
Longitude
80.0941° or 80° 5′ 39″ east
Population
31,100
Elevation
5,647 metres (18,527 feet)
Open location code
8M42F3VV+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5604103184
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1281220
Wiki­data ID
Q1026159
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Gar County” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Gar Xian”
  • Chinese: “Gá’ěr Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “Gar Koān”
  • Chinese: “噶尔”
  • Chinese: “噶尔县”
  • Chinese: “噶爾”
  • Chinese: “噶爾縣”
  • Czech: “Gar”
  • Dutch: “Arrondissement Gar”
  • Dutch: “Ga’er Xian”
  • Dutch: “Gá’ěr Xiàn”
  • Dutch: “Gar (arrondissement)”
  • Dutch: “Gar Dzong”
  • Dutch: “Gar Xian”
  • Dutch: “Gar Xiàn”
  • Dutch: “Gar”
  • French: “Comte de Gar”
  • French: “Comté de gar”
  • French: “Ga’er”
  • French: “Gaer”
  • French: “Gar”
  • French: “xian de Gar”
  • French: “Xian de Gar”
  • Gan Chinese: “噶尔县”
  • German: “Ga’er”
  • German: “Gar Dzong”
  • German: “Gar”
  • Hindi: “गर ज़िला”
  • Italian: “Contea di Gar”
  • Japanese: “ガル県”
  • Japanese: “噶爾県”
  • Korean: “가르현”
  • Korean: “가얼현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gar-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gar”
  • Norwegian: “Gar”
  • Persian: “شهرستان گار”
  • Polish: “Gar”
  • Russian: “Гар”
  • Spanish: “Gar”
  • Swedish: “Gar, Ngari”
  • Swedish: “Gar”
  • Tibetan: “Gar Xian”
  • Tibetan: “Gar”
  • Tibetan: “སྒར་རྫོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “སྒར་རྫོང་”
  • Ukrainian: “Гар”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґар”
  • Urdu: “گار کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Cát Nhĩ”
  • Vietnamese: “Gar”
  • Wu Chinese: “噶尔县”
  • Yue Chinese: “噶爾”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gar County”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.