Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in northwestern province, China. Covering an area of 23,870 km2, it is bordered by the to the northwest, province to the northeast, and other parts of Yunnan province to the southwest and southeast - and , respectively.
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  • Type: Region with 388,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China
  • Also known as: “Autonome Tibetaanse Prefectuur Deqen”, “Deqen”, “Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, “Địch Khánh, Huyện Tự Trị Dân tộc Tạng”, “Diqing”, “Diqing Tibet Özerk İli”, “Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, “Prefectura autonoma tibetana de Deqen”, “Дечен-Тибетський автономний округ”, “迪庆州”, “迪庆藏族自治州 བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།”, and “迪慶州”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Dukezong Ancient Town and Xianggelila (Shangri-La).

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Dukezong or Dorkhar is the historical center…

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shangrila and Jiantang.

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is in Province.

Town
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or Gyaitang is a town in northern …

Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Latitude
27.8223° or 27° 49′ 20″ north
Longitude
99.7018° or 99° 42′ 6″ east
Population
388,000
Elevation
4,059 metres (13,317 feet)
IATA airport code
DIG
Open location code
7MVXRPC2+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244078512
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
1281365
Wiki­data ID
Q766073
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ديكين، التبت”
  • Basque: “Diqing Tibetar Prefektura autonomoa”
  • Bengali: “ডেকেন তিব্বেতান এ অটোনোমাস ফ্রিপেকসার”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura Autònoma Tibetana de Diqing”
  • Cebuano: “Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”
  • Chinese: “Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu”
  • Chinese: “迪庆”
  • Chinese: “迪庆藏族自治州”
  • Chinese: “迪慶藏族自治州”
  • Czech: “Dečhen”
  • Danish: “Dêqên”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Tibetaanse Prefectuur Dêqên”
  • Estonian: “Dêqêni Tiibeti autonoomne ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Dêqên”
  • French: “préfecture autonome tibétaine de Dêqên”
  • French: “Préfecture autonome tibétaine de Dêqên”
  • French: “Préfecture autonome tibétaine de Diqing”
  • Gan Chinese: “迪庆藏族自治州”
  • German: “Autonomer Bezirk Dêqên”
  • German: “Dêqên”
  • Greek: “Ντιτσίνγκ Τιμπέταν”
  • Gujarati: “ડેકેન તિબેટીયન ઔટોનોમાસ પ્રીફેક્ચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thit-khin Chhòng-chhu̍k Chhṳ-chhṳ-chû”
  • Hebrew: “הנציבות האוטונומית הטיבטית דיצ’ינג”
  • Hindi: “डिकेन तिब्बतन ऑटोनोमस प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Otonom Tibet Dêqên”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Otonomi Tibet Diqing”
  • Italian: “prefettura autonoma tibetana di Dêqên”
  • Italian: “Prefettura autonoma tibetana di Dêqên”
  • Japanese: “デチェン・チベット族自治州”
  • Kannada: “ಡಿಕೆನ್ ಟಿಬೆಟಿಯನ್ ಸ್ವಾಯತ್ತ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “디칭 티베트족 자치주”
  • Latvian: “Dikingas Tibetiešu autonomā prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “迪慶藏族自治州”
  • Lithuanian: “Dikingo Tibeto Autonominė prefektūra”
  • Malay: “Daerah Autonomi Deqen Tibetan”
  • Marathi: “डेप्न तिबेटी ऑटोनॉमस प्रीफेक्चुअर”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dĭk-kéng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Te̍k-khèng Chōng-cho̍k Chū-tī-chiu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dêqên”
  • Norwegian: “Dêqên”
  • Persian: “ولایت خودمختار دیگینگ تبتی”
  • Polish: “Dêqên”
  • Portuguese: “Diqing”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura autônoma tibetana de Diqing”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura autonomă tibetană Diqing”
  • Russian: “Дечен-Тибетский автономный округ”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙකෙන් ටිබෙටියානු ස්වාධින ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovenian: “Tibetanska avtonomna prefektura Dičing”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autónoma tibetana de Dêqên”
  • Swedish: “Dêqên”
  • Tamil: “டெக்ன் டிபேடன் ஆடோனோமோஸ் பிரேபிக்ச்சர்”
  • Telugu: “డికెన్ టిబెటన్ అటానమస్ ప్రీఫెక్చ్యూర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดปกครองตนเองชนชาติทิเบต ตี๋ชิ่ง”
  • Tibetan: “བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།”
  • Turkish: “Diqing Tibet Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Diqing”
  • Ukrainian: “Дечен-Тибетська автономна префектура”
  • Urdu: “دیچنگ تبتی خود مختار پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Dêqên”
  • Vietnamese: “Địch Khánh”
  • Wu Chinese: “迪庆藏族自治州”
  • Yue Chinese: “迪慶”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: 曲不塘 and 尼史村.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: 红太阳广场 and 迪庆州人民政府.

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