Chawu
Chawu is a town in Tibet, Southwest China and has an elevation of 4,039 metres. Chawu is situated nearby to the village Jiedi, as well as near the neighborhood 明玛小区.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quxar.
Quxar
Town
Lhatse, also known as Chusar, Quxar or Quxia, is a small town of a few thousand people in Lhatse County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in the valley of the Yarlung Tsangpo River 151 kilometres southwest of Shigatse and just west of the mountain pass leading to it. Quxar is situated 5 km southeast of Chawu.
Chawu
- Type: Town
- Also known as: “Chau”, “Chawu Township”, “Chawu Xiang”, and “Drau”
- Categories: township of China and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.1099° or 29° 6′ 36″ northLongitude
87.5829° or 87° 34′ 59″ eastElevation
4,039 metres (13,251 feet)Open location code
7MX94H5M+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 336438959OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Chawu” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chawu (baranggay sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, lat 29,11, long 87,58)”
- Cebuano: “Chawu”
- Chinese: “cháwù xiāng”
- Chinese: “查务”
- Chinese: “查务乡”
- Gan Chinese: “查务乡”
- Swedish: “Chawu”
- Tibetan: “གྲའུ་ཤང་།”
- Wu Chinese: “查务乡”
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