Baiyü County
Baiyü County or Pelyül is a county in far western Sichuan, China on the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 20,900 residents
- Description: county in Garzê, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Baiyu”, “Baiyü”, “baiyu xian”, “Baiyue Xian”, “Pai-yü Hsien”, “Palyul”, “Pelyul”, and “Pelyül”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pelyul Monastery.
Pelyul Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palyul Monastery, also known as Palyul Namgyal Jangchub Choling Monastery and sometimes romanized as Pelyul Monastery, is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jianshe.
Jianshe
Town
Jianshe or Pelyul is a town and seat of Baiyü County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the west of Sichuan Province in Southwest China.
Baiyü County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Ganzi, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.2128° or 31° 12′ 46″ northLongitude
98.8225° or 98° 49′ 21″ eastPopulation
20,900Elevation
4,017 metres (13,179 feet)Open location code
8M3W6R7F+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 244076451OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1281695Wikidata ID
Q531703
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Baiyü County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بايو”
- Cebuano: “Baiyü Xian”
- Chinese: “Pe̍h-ge̍k-koān”
- Chinese: “白玉”
- Chinese: “白玉县”
- Dutch: “Baiyü”
- French: “Baiyu”
- French: “xian de Baiyü”
- French: “Xian de Baiyü”
- Gan Chinese: “白玉县”
- German: “Baiyü”
- Italian: “Contea di Baiyü”
- Japanese: “白玉県”
- Korean: “바이위현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍h-ge̍k-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baiyu”
- Norwegian: “Baiyu”
- Persian: “شهرستان باییو”
- Russian: “Байюй”
- Russian: “Бэю”
- Spanish: “Baiyu”
- Swedish: “Baiyü”
- Tibetan: “དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།”
- Ukrainian: “Баю”
- Vietnamese: “Bạch Ngọc, Garzê”
- Vietnamese: “Bạch Ngọc”
- Wu Chinese: “白玉县”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Matong and Yatong.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Palyul Gompa and Dakho Monastery.
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