Diexi
Diexi is a town in Mao County, Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan, China. As of 2000, it has a population of 2,697. The old town of Diexi was destroyed in the 1933 Diexi earthquake and sank into Diexi Lake. On 24 June 2017, a landslide occurred in Xinmo Village, Diexi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Memes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: town in Mao County, China
- Also known as: “Chiao-ch’ang-pa”, “Dêxe”, “Dêxi”, “Diexi Town”, “Diexi, Mao County”, “Jiaochang”, and “Jiaochangba”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Diexi Lake.
Diexi Lake
Photo: Memes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Diexi Lake is a lake in Diexi, Mao County, Sichuan, China. Diexi Lake is a landslide dam-created lake formed in the 1933 Diexi earthquake and covers 3.5 square kilometers.
Diexi
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Aba, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.04277° or 32° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
103.67934° or 103° 40′ 46″ eastElevation
2,344 metres (7,690 feet)Open location code
8P452MVH+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 1738377477OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Diexi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديشي”
- Asturian: “Diexi”
- Chinese: “叠溪”
- Chinese: “叠溪古城”
- Chinese: “叠溪镇”
- Chinese: “疊溪鎮”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديشى”
- French: “Diexi”
- Gan Chinese: “叠溪镇”
- German: “Diexi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Diexi”
- Norwegian: “Diexi”
- Persian: “دیشی، شهرستان مائو”
- Tibetan: “ཏའེ་ཞི་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Tibetan: “ཏེ་ཞི་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Welsh: “Diexi”
- Wu Chinese: “叠溪镇”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Jiaochang Village and Tuanjie.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 教场村委会 and 叠溪地震遗址观景点.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Diexi”. Photo: Memes, CC BY-SA 3.0.