Potala Palace
Potala Palace is a museum complex in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It was formerly the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, and from 1649 until 1959 served as the Dalai Lamas' residence.
- Tourist attraction
- …lies at an elevation of 3,677 metres (12,064 feet)
- Description: 7th-century Tibetan fortress and palace in Lhasa, rebuilt in the 17th century as the winter seat of the Dalai Lamas
- Also known as“Botala”“Budala”“Budala Gong”“Potala”“Pu-ta-la”“Pu-ta-la-kung”“布达拉宫 ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏ་ལ།”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lhasa Zhol Pillar and Chagpori.
Lhasa Zhol Pillar
Memorial
The Zhol outer pillar, or Doring Chima, is a stone… Lhasa Zhol Pillar is situated 330 metres southeast of Potala Palace.
Kundeling Monastery
Buddhist temple
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Kundeling Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lhasa, Tibet. Kundeling Monastery is situated 1 km west of Potala Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lhasa and Zhol Village.
Zhol Village
Neighborhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
Pargor Subdistrict
Suburb
The Barkhor Square, or Barkhor, is an historic area…
Potala Palace
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Latitude
29.6575° or 29° 39′ 27″ north
Longitude
91.11668° or 91° 7′ east
Open location code
7MXHM458+2M
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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”
- Assamese: “পোতালা পেলেচ”
- 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: “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”
- Kannada: “ಪೊಟಾಲ ಅರಮನೆ”
- 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”
- 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”
- Telugu: “పోటాలా ప్యాలెస్”
- Thai: “พระราชวังโปตาลา”
- Tibetan: “པོ་ཏ་ལ།”
- Tibetan: “པོ་ཏ་ལ”
- Tibetan: “ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏ་ལ།”
- Tibetan: “རི་བོ་གྲུ་འཛིན།”
- 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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