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Potala Palace

Potala Palace is a museum complex in , the capital of the of . It was formerly the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, built in the dzong style on Marpo Ri.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Fortress in Lhasa, Tibet
  • Also known as: “Botala”, “Budala”, “Budala Gong”, “Budalagong”, “Potala”, “Pu-ta-la”, “Pu-ta-la Kung”, and “Pu-ta-la-kung”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chagpori and Kundeling Monastery.

Peak
Photo: John Hill, CC BY 3.0.
, or Chakpori, Chokpori, Chagpo Ri is a spirit-mountain of Vajrapani in , . It is south of Potala and is considered to be one of the four holy mountains of central Tibet.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in , . It was founded around 1794, and follows the Gelug school. The head of the monastery belongs to a lineage of incarnations that dates back to 1402. is situated 1 km west of Potala Palace.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Esiymbro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, Tsomonling, Tsome Ling, Chomoling is a temple in inner , , China, south of the , and on the corner of one of the main roads, Dekyi Shar Lam. is situated 1¼ km east of Potala Palace.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lhasa and Zhol Village.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital of the autonomous region in . It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the .

Neighborhood
, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in , . It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans.

Suburb
The Barkhor Square, or Barkhor, is an historic area of narrow streets and a public square with markets, and the circumambulation route around the in , , .

Potala Palace

Latitude
29.6575° or 29° 39′ 27″ north
Longitude
91.11668° or 91° 7′ east
Elevation
3,677 metres (12,064 feet)
Open location code
7MXHM458+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 176772035
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6547218
Wiki­data ID
Q71229
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Potala Palace” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Potala-paleis”
  • Albanian: “Potala”
  • Arabic: “قصر بوتالا”
  • Armenian: “Պատալա”
  • Armenian: “Պոտալա”
  • Asturian: “Potala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Potala sarayı”
  • Bashkir: “Потала”
  • Basque: “Potala jauregia”
  • Basque: “Potala”
  • Belarusian: “Патала”
  • Bengali: “পোতালা প্রাসাদ”
  • Breton: “Potala”
  • Bulgarian: “Потала”
  • Burmese: “ပိုတာလာနန်းတော်”
  • Catalan: “palau de Potala”
  • Catalan: “Palau de Potala”
  • Catalan: “Potala”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی پۆتالا”
  • Chinese: “bùdálāgōng”
  • Chinese: “Potala Kiong”
  • Chinese: “布达拉宫”
  • Chinese: “布達拉宮”
  • Croatian: “Palača Potala”
  • Czech: “Palác Potala”
  • Czech: “Palác Potála”
  • Czech: “Potala”
  • Czech: “Potála”
  • Danish: “Potalapaladset”
  • Dutch: “Historisch ensemble van het Potala paleis, Lhasa”
  • Dutch: “Potala Paleis”
  • Dutch: “Potala-paleis”
  • Dutch: “Potala”
  • Dutch: “Potalapaleis”
  • Dzongkha: “པོ་ཏ་ལ།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قصر بوتالا”
  • Esperanto: “Palaco Potala”
  • Esperanto: “Potala”
  • Estonian: “Potala palee”
  • Estonian: “Potala”
  • Finnish: “Potala”
  • French: “palais du Potala”
  • French: “Palais du Potala”
  • French: “Potala Palace”
  • Galician: “Potala”
  • Georgian: “პოტალა”
  • German: “Budala gong”
  • German: “Budala-Gong”
  • German: “Potala Palast”
  • German: “Potala-Palast”
  • Greek: “Ανάκτορο Ποτάλα”
  • Greek: “ανάκτορο της Ποτάλα”
  • Greek: “παλάτι Ποτάλα”
  • Greek: “παλάτι της Ποτάλα”
  • Hebrew: “ארמון הפוטאלה”
  • Hebrew: “ארמון פוטאלה”
  • Hebrew: “ארמון פוטלה”
  • Hindi: “पोताला महल”
  • Hungarian: “Potala palota”
  • Indonesian: “Istana Potala”
  • Italian: “Palazzo del Potala”
  • Italian: “Potala Palace”
  • Italian: “Potala”
  • Japanese: “ポタラ”
  • Japanese: “ポタラ宮”
  • Japanese: “ポタラ宮殿”
  • Javanese: “Astana Potala”
  • Javanese: “Kadhaton Potala”
  • Khmer: “ព្រះរាជវាំងប៉ូតាឡា”
  • Korean: “포탈라 궁”
  • Korean: “포탈라 궁전”
  • Korean: “포탈라궁”
  • Latin: “Palatium Potala”
  • Latvian: “Potalas pils”
  • Lithuanian: “Potala”
  • Lithuanian: “Potalos rūmai”
  • Malayalam: “പൊടാല കൊട്ടാരം”
  • Maltese: “Palazz ta‘ Potala”
  • Maltese: “Palazz ta’ Potala”
  • Marathi: “पोताला महाल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Potala-kiong”
  • Mongolian: “Будала ордон”
  • Nepali: “पोताला दरबार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potalapalasset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potola palace”
  • Norwegian: “Potalapalasset”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palais de Potala”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਤਾਲਾ ਪੈਲੇਸ”
  • Persian: “قصر پتالا”
  • Persian: “قصر پوتالا”
  • Polish: “Pałac Potala”
  • Polish: “Potala”
  • Portuguese: “Conjunto histórico do palácio de potala em lhasa”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio de Potala”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio de potola”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio potala”
  • Portuguese: “Potala”
  • Romanian: “Palatul Potala”
  • Russia Buriat: “Потала ордон”
  • Russian: “Дворец Потала”
  • Russian: “Потала”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱚᱛᱟᱞᱟ ᱫᱚᱞᱟᱱ”
  • Scots: “Potala Palace”
  • Serbian: “Палата Потала”
  • Serbian: “Потала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palača Potala”
  • Slovak: “Potala”
  • Slovenian: “Potala”
  • Spanish: “Palacio de Potala”
  • Spanish: “Potala”
  • Swedish: “Potala”
  • Swedish: “Potalapalatset”
  • Swedish: “Tse Podrang”
  • Tagalog: “Palasyo ng Potala”
  • Tagalog: “Palasyong Potala”
  • Tagalog: “Potala Palace”
  • Tagalog: “Potala”
  • Tamil: “பொட்டலா அரண்மனை”
  • Tatar: “Потала сарае”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังโปตาลา”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་ཏ་ལ།”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་ཏ་ལ”
  • Tibetan: “ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏ་ལ་”
  • Turkish: “Potala Sarayı”
  • Uighur: “بۇددالا سارىيى”
  • Ukrainian: “Палац Потала”
  • Ukrainian: “Потала”
  • Urdu: “پوتالا محل”
  • Urdu: “پوٹالا محل”
  • Vietnamese: “Cung Bố Đạt La”
  • Vietnamese: “Cung điện Potala”
  • Vietnamese: “Cung Potala”
  • Vietnamese: “Potala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palasyo han Potala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Potala Palace”
  • Wu Chinese: “布达拉宫”
  • Yue Chinese: “布達拉宮”

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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 “Potala Palace”. Photo: Ondřej Žváček, CC BY 2.5.