Tarchan
Kangsa Village, poetically known as Darchen, Tarchan or Taqin, is a former Bhutanese enclave, currently held by the People's Republic of China and the seat of the Parga Township, Purang County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 754 residents
- Description: village in Burang, Ngari, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Darchen”, “Kangsa”, “Kangsa Village”, “Parga Xang seat”, “Taqin”, “Tarqên”, and “塔欽”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Darchen.
Darchen
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Darchen is a town, which is situated 5 km north of Tarchan.
Tarchan
- Categories: village of the People’s Republic of China and human settlement
- Location: Ngari, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Wu Chinese—“Tarchan” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Дарчен”
- Cebuano: “Darchen”
- Chinese: “塔尔钦”
- Chinese: “塔尔钦集镇”
- Chinese: “塔钦”
- Chinese: “岗莎村”
- Chinese: “崗莎村”
- Dutch: “Darchen”
- Esperanto: “Darchen”
- French: “Darchen”
- Gan Chinese: “岗萨村”
- German: “Darchen”
- Hebrew: “דארצ’ן”
- Japanese: “ダルチェン”
- Japanese: “塔爾欽”
- Japanese: “崗薩村”
- Malagasy: “Darchen”
- Persian: “دارچن”
- Polish: “Darchen”
- Russian: “Дарчен”
- Swedish: “Darchen”
- Ukrainian: “Дарчен”
- Ukrainian: “Тарчен”
- Wu Chinese: “岗萨村”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Tarchan”. Photo: Ondřej Žváček, CC BY 2.5.