Purang County
Purang County or Burang County is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county seat is Purang Town, known as Taklakot in Nepali.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 13,000 residents
- Description: county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Burang County”, “P’u-lan Hsien”, “pu lan”, “Pulan”, “Pulan Xian”, “Purang”, and “Taklakot”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Simbiling Monastery.
Simbiling Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Endeavour192, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Simbiling Monastery, also known as Shambuling Gompa, Shepeling Dzong and Taklakot Gompa, was located next to the large fort of Tegla Kar on a ridge near Taklakot, above the town of Purang, in the Ngari province, which is just over the border from India…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Purang Town.
Purang Town
Town
Purang or Burang, also known as Taklakot, is a town which serves as the administrative center of Purang County, Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Purang County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Ngari, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.2962° or 30° 17′ 46″ northLongitude
81.1748° or 81° 10′ 29″ eastPopulation
13,000Elevation
4,585 metres (15,043 feet)Open location code
8M2375WF+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 3017726301OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1281592Wikidata ID
Q1010270
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Purang County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Burang Xian”
- Chinese: “Burang Koān”
- Chinese: “pǔlán xiàn”
- Chinese: “布让”
- Chinese: “普兰”
- Chinese: “普兰县”
- Chinese: “普蘭”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Burang”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Purang”
- Dutch: “Burang (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Burang Dzong”
- Dutch: “Burang Xian”
- Dutch: “Burang”
- Dutch: “Pulan Xian”
- Dutch: “Pulan Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Pǔlán Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Pulang Xian”
- Dutch: “Purang Dzong”
- French: “Burang”
- French: “Comte de Burang”
- French: “Comté de burang”
- French: “Comté de Burang”
- French: “Comté De Burang”
- French: “Pulan”
- French: “Purang”
- French: “Taklakot”
- French: “xian de Burang”
- French: “Xian de Burang”
- Gan Chinese: “普兰县”
- German: “Burang”
- German: “Pulan”
- German: “Purang Dzong”
- German: “Purang”
- Hindi: “पुरंग ज़िला”
- Hindi: “बुरंग ज़िला”
- Italian: “Contea di Burang”
- Japanese: “プラン県”
- Japanese: “普蘭県”
- Korean: “부랑현”
- Korean: “푸란현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Burang-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burang”
- Norwegian: “Burang”
- Persian: “شهرستان بورانگ”
- Polish: “Burang”
- Portuguese: “Burang”
- Russian: “Буранг (уезд)”
- Russian: “Буранг”
- Spanish: “Burang”
- Spanish: “Purang”
- Swedish: “Burang”
- Tibetan: “Burang Xian”
- Tibetan: “Burang”
- Tibetan: “pu hrang rdzong”
- Tibetan: “pu rang rdzong”
- Tibetan: “spu hreng rdzong”
- Tibetan: “པུ་ཧྲང་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་”
- Ukrainian: “Буранг”
- Urdu: “بورانگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Burang”
- Vietnamese: “Phổ Lan”
- Western Panjabi: “پرنگ ضلع”
- Wu Chinese: “普兰县”
- Yue Chinese: “普蘭”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gokung Monastery and Burang Townhall.
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