Qonggyai
Qonggyai is a town in Shannan, Tibet and has an elevation of 3,792 metres. Qonggyai is situated nearby to the neighborhood Chenka’er, as well as near the village Bairi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: town in Chongye County, Shannan, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Chonggyé”, “Chongye”, “Qiongjie”, “Qiongjiexue”, “Qonggyaixoi”, “琼结”, “琼结县”, and “琼结雪社区”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Taktsé Castle and Riwo Dechen Monastery.
Taktsé Castle
Ruins
Taktsé Castle was a castle located in the Chingwa district of Chonggyä in central Tibet. According to legend, it was home to the kings of Tibet before Songtsen Gampo moved his capital to Lhasa.
Riwo Dechen Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Jan Reurink, CC BY 2.0.
Riwo Dechen Monastery is a Buddhist temple.
Tombs of the Tibetan Kings
The Valley of the Kings or Chongye Valley is a valley in Qonggyai County, Tibet, China. It is the location of eight tumuli, which are believed to be the burial mounds of eight to ten Tibetan rulers.
Qonggyai
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Shannan, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.02784° or 29° 1′ 40″ northLongitude
91.68001° or 91° 40′ 48″ eastElevation
3,792 metres (12,441 feet)Open location code
7MXH2MHJ+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 2703829159OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Qonggyai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيونغجي”
- Asturian: “Qonggyai”
- Bengali: “কুয়ংজে”
- Catalan: “Qiongjie”
- Catalan: “Qonggyai”
- Chinese: “qióngjié zhèn”
- Chinese: “琼结镇”
- Danish: “Qiongjie”
- Dutch: “Qiongjie”
- Dutch: “Qonggyai”
- Finnish: “Qiongjie”
- French: “Bourg de Qiongjie”
- French: “Bourg de Qiongyai”
- French: “Bourg de Qonggyai”
- French: “Qiongjie zhen”
- French: “Qiongjie”
- French: “Qonggyai”
- French: “Qongye”
- Gan Chinese: “琼结镇”
- German: “Qiongjie”
- German: “Qonggyai”
- Greek: “Κιόνγκτζιε”
- Gujarati: “ક્યુંગ્જી”
- Hindi: “किओन्जए”
- Indonesian: “Qiongjie”
- Italian: “Chongye”
- Italian: “Qiongjie”
- Italian: “Qonggyai”
- Japanese: “チョンギェー”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಯಾನ್ಗ್ಜೀ”
- Korean: “키옹지에”
- Latvian: “Čiongdže”
- Lithuanian: “Čiongdžė”
- Malay: “Qiongjie”
- Marathi: “क्ओनगजी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qiongjie”
- Polish: “Qiongjie”
- Polish: “Qonggyai”
- Portuguese: “Qiongjie”
- Portuguese: “Qonggyai”
- Russian: “Чонггьэ”
- Sinhala: “කුයිඔන්ග්ජි”
- Spanish: “Qiongjie”
- Spanish: “Qonggyai”
- Swedish: “Qiongjie”
- Tamil: “கியோங்ஜி”
- Telugu: “కిఒన్గ్జిఎ”
- Thai: “เกี่ยงจี้”
- Tibetan: “འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Tibetan: “འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས”
- Turkish: “Qiongjie”
- Ukrainian: “Чонгье”
- Urdu: “قیونججیی”
- Vietnamese: “Quỳnh Kết”
- Welsh: “Qiongjie”
- Wu Chinese: “琼结镇”
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Localities in the Area
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