Dangquka
Dangquka, or Damquka is a small modern Tibetan town of low-barrack like buildings and is the administrative centre of Damxung County, roughly two and a half hours by road northeast of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: town in Tibet Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
- Also known as: “Damchukha”, “Damquka”, “Damquka Town”, and “Gongtang Qu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Damxung.
Damxung
Railway station
Photo: Yaohua2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway, is a high-elevation railway line in China between Xining, Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, Tibet. With over 960 km of track being more than 4,000 m above sea level, it is the highest railway line in the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gongtang Township.
Gongtang Township
Town
Gongtang is a township in Damxung County in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet, China. Established in 1960, in 1970 it became a township. It has a population of around 4800 and contains four village committees.
Dangquka
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.47972° or 30° 28′ 47″ northLongitude
91.1092° or 91° 6′ 33″ eastElevation
4,910 metres (16,109 feet)Open location code
8M2HF4H5+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4063021208OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Dangquka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دونغكوكا”
- Asturian: “Dangquka”
- Bengali: “ডাংকোয়াক”
- Chinese: “dāngqūkǎ zhèn”
- Chinese: “公塘区”
- Chinese: “当曲卡”
- Chinese: “当曲卡镇”
- Chinese: “當曲卡鎮”
- Danish: “Dangquka”
- Dutch: “Dangquka”
- Finnish: “Dangquka”
- French: “bourg de Damquka”
- French: “Bourg de Damquka”
- Gan Chinese: “当曲卡镇”
- Greek: “Ντανγκούκα”
- Gujarati: “ડેન્ગ્કુકા”
- Hindi: “डंकक्वा”
- Indonesian: “Dangquka”
- Italian: “Dangquka”
- Japanese: “当曲卡鎮”
- Kannada: “ಡ್ಯಾಂಗ್ಕ್ಕಾ”
- Korean: “당쿠카”
- Latvian: “Dangkuka”
- Lithuanian: “Dangkuka”
- Malay: “Dangquka”
- Marathi: “डंकक्वा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dangquka”
- Persian: “دانگکوکا”
- Polish: “Dangquka”
- Russian: “Дамсюнг”
- Russian: “Дамчука”
- Sinhala: “ඩන්ග්කුකා”
- Swedish: “Dangquka”
- Tamil: “டஙகுகா”
- Telugu: “డెంగ్క్కుక”
- Thai: “ดางคูกา”
- Tibetan: “Damquka”
- Tibetan: “འདམ་ཆུ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Turkish: “Dangquka”
- Ukrainian: “Дамчука”
- Urdu: “دانجقوکا”
- Vietnamese: “Đương Khúc Khải”
- Welsh: “Dangquka”
- Wu Chinese: “当曲卡镇”
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