Purang 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 5,030 residents
- Description: town in Purang County, Ngari, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Burang”, “Burang Town”, “Durang”, “Jirang Juweihui”, “K’o-la-k’o-t’e”, “P’u-lan”, “P’u-lan-tsung”, “Pulan”, “Pulan Xian”, “T’a-k’o-la-k’o-t’e”, “Taklakhar”, 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…
Purang Town
- Categories: town of China, border city, and locality
- Location: Ngari, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.28863° or 30° 17′ 19″ northLongitude
81.17817° or 81° 10′ 41″ eastPopulation
5,030Elevation
3,892 metres (12,769 feet)United Nations Location Code
CN BUROpen location code
8M2375QH+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 5201302215OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Purang Town” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدينة بورانغ”
- Asturian: “Purang Town”
- Bengali: “বুরাং টাউন”
- Cebuano: “Burang”
- Chinese: “吉让居委会”
- Chinese: “普兰”
- Chinese: “普兰县”
- Chinese: “普兰镇”
- Danish: “Burang”
- Dutch: “Burang”
- Finnish: “Burang Town”
- French: “bourg de Burang”
- French: “Bourg de Burang”
- French: “Burang”
- French: “Purang”
- Gan Chinese: “普兰镇”
- Greek: “Μπουράνγκ”
- Gujarati: “બુરંગ નગર”
- Hindi: “तकलाकोट”
- Hindi: “पुरंग”
- Hindi: “बुरंग”
- Indonesian: “Kota Burang”
- Italian: “Burang”
- Japanese: “プラン鎮”
- Japanese: “普蘭鎮”
- Kannada: “ಬುರಂಗ್ ಟೌನ್”
- Korean: “부랑 타운”
- Latvian: “Buranga”
- Lithuanian: “Burangas”
- Malagasy: “Burang”
- Malay: “Bandar Burang”
- Marathi: “बुरंग नगर”
- Nepali: “ताक्लाकोट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burang By”
- Persian: “شهر بورانگ”
- Polish: “Burang”
- Portuguese: “Burang”
- Portuguese: “Purang”
- Portuguese: “spu hreng”
- Portuguese: “Taklakot”
- Russian: “Буранг”
- Sinhala: “බුරාන්ග් ටවුම”
- Spanish: “Burang”
- Swedish: “Burang Stad”
- Tamil: “புறங் நகரம்”
- Telugu: “బురాంగ్ పట్టణం”
- Thai: “เบรัง ทาวน์”
- Tibetan: “Burang”
- Tibetan: “སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Turkish: “Burang Town”
- Ukrainian: “Буранг”
- Urdu: “برانج ٹاؤن”
- Vietnamese: “Phổ Lan Trấn”
- Western Panjabi: “تکلا کوٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “普兰镇”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Burang Townhall and 狮泉河海关普兰工作点.
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