SW China
Sichuan
Ganzi

Hekou

Hekou is a town in , of , . Hekou has an elevation of 2,648 metres.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Town
  • Description: town in and seat of Yajiang county, Garzê, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Chung-tu”, “Chzhundu”, “Hekou Town”, “Hekou, Yajiang County”, “Ho-k’ou”, “Hokow”, “Nyachhukha”, “Nyagquka”, “Pünda”, “Quka”, “Ya-chiang”, “Ya-chiang-hsien”, “Ya-chieng”, “Yakiang”, “雅江”, and “雅江县”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yajiang.

Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a modern town of under 10,000 people set in a steep valley along the southern Tibet-Sichuan highway in Ganzi in , at an altitude of roughly 2,900 meters.

Hekou

Latitude
30.0324° or 30° 1′ 57″ north
Longitude
101.01759° or 101° 1′ 3″ east
Elevation
2,648 metres (8,688 feet)
Open location code
8P2322J9+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 458171487
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1808573
Wiki­data ID
Q5701337
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Hekou” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Hekou, Yajiang County”
  • Chinese: “Yǎjiāng Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “河口”
  • Chinese: “河口镇”
  • French: “Yajiang”
  • Gan Chinese: “河口镇”
  • German: “Hekou”
  • Japanese: “雅江県”
  • Russian: “Хэкоу”
  • Tibetan: “ཆུ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
  • Tibetan: “སྥུན་ཟླ”
  • Ukrainian: “Хекоу”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhã Giang”
  • Wu Chinese: “河口镇”

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