SW China
Tibet
Xigaze

Kampa Dzong

Kampa or Kamba Dzong, is a town north of . It is the headequarters in the Shigatse Prefecture. It is marked by an iconic hill-top fort, much admired by the expeditions travelling to during the early 20th century.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: Town in Kamba County, Shigatse, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Gamba”, “Gangba”, “Gangba Zhen”, “Kamba”, “Kampa”, and “Khampa Dzong”

Kampa Dzong

Latitude
28.21804° or 28° 13′ 5″ north
Longitude
88.47396° or 88° 28′ 26″ east
Elevation
4,594 metres (15,072 feet)
Open location code
7MWC6F9F+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2528168857
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8746033
Wiki­data ID
Q1723258
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Kampa Dzong” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Kampa Dzong”
  • Cebuano: “Gangba”
  • Chinese: “Gǎng bā”
  • Chinese: “岗巴”
  • Chinese: “岗巴镇”
  • French: “Dzong de Khampa Dzong”
  • French: “Kampa Dzong”
  • French: “Khampa Dzong”
  • Gan Chinese: “岗巴镇”
  • German: “Gamba”
  • Russian: “Гамба (посёлок)”
  • Russian: “Гамба”
  • Russian: “Ганба чжэнь”
  • Russian: “Камба”
  • Russian: “Кампа-дзонг”
  • Russian: “Кхамба Дзонг”
  • Russian: “Кхамба-дзонг”
  • Russian: “Кхамбер Джонг”
  • Russian: “посёлок Ганба”
  • Swedish: “Gangba”
  • Tibetan: “གམ་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
  • Wu Chinese: “岗巴镇”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Kampa Dzong”. Photo: ralph repo, Public domain.