Damxung County
Damxung is a county of Lhasa City, lying to the north of its main center of Chengguan, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its administrative seat is Damquka.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 11,600 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Damxung”, “Damzhung”, “Dangxiong”, “dangxiong xian”, “Dangxiong Xian”, and “Tang-hsiung Hsien”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Damxung.
Damxung
Railway station
Photo: Yaohua2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway, is a high-elevation railway line in China between Xining, Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, Tibet. With over 960 km of track being more than 4,000 m above sea level, it is the highest railway line in the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gongtang Township and Dangquka.
Gongtang Township
Town
Gongtang is a township in Damxung County in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet, China. Established in 1960, in 1970 it became a township. It has a population of around 4800 and contains four village committees.
Dangquka
Town
Photo: Yaohua2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dangquka, or Damquka is a small modern Tibetan town of low-barrack like buildings and is the administrative centre of Damxung County, roughly two and a half hours by road northeast of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Damxung County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.4749° or 30° 28′ 30″ northLongitude
91.0998° or 91° 5′ 59″ eastPopulation
11,600Elevation
5,615 metres (18,422 feet)Open location code
8M2HF3FX+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 244077942OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1281423Wikidata ID
Q769114
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Damxung County” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Damxung konderria”
- Cebuano: “Damxung Xian”
- Chinese: “Damxung Koān”
- Chinese: “dāngxióng xiàn”
- Chinese: “当雄”
- Chinese: “当雄县”
- Chinese: “當雄”
- Dutch: “Damshung”
- French: “Damxung”
- French: “xian de Damxung”
- French: “Xian de Damxung”
- Gan Chinese: “当雄县”
- German: “Damxung”
- Italian: “Contea di Damxung”
- Japanese: “ダムシュン県”
- Korean: “담숭현”
- Korean: “당슝현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Damxung-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Damxung”
- Norwegian: “Damxung”
- Persian: “شهرستان دامشونگ”
- Polish: “Damxung”
- Portuguese: “Damxung”
- Russian: “Дамшунг”
- Spanish: “Damxung”
- Swedish: “Damshung”
- Tibetan: “Damxung Xian”
- Tibetan: “Damxung”
- Tibetan: “འདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “འདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང”
- Ukrainian: “Дамшунг”
- Urdu: “دامشونگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Damxung”
- Wu Chinese: “当雄县”
- Yue Chinese: “當雄”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 当雄县邮政局 and Damxung Airport.
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