Gongtang Township
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: township in Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- Also known as: “Dangquka”, “Gongtang”, “Gongtang Xiang”, and “Kongtang”
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 Dangquka.
Dangquka
Town
Photo: Yaohua2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Gongtang Township
- Categories: township of China and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.488° or 30° 29′ 17″ northLongitude
91.1071° or 91° 6′ 26″ eastElevation
4,279 metres (14,039 feet)Open location code
8M2HF4Q4+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 3170179635OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Gongtang Township” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gongtang”
- Chinese: “gōngtáng xiāng”
- Chinese: “公塘”
- Chinese: “公塘乡”
- Chinese: “当曲卡”
- Dutch: “Gongtang”
- Gan Chinese: “公塘乡”
- Malay: “Gongtang”
- Persian: “گونگتانگ”
- Portuguese: “Gongtang”
- Swedish: “Gongtang”
- Tibetan: “ཀོང་ཐང་ཤང་།”
- Wu Chinese: “公塘乡”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 当雄县邮政局 and Damxung Airport.
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