Gyirai
Gyirai is a suburb in Tibet, Southwest China and has an elevation of 3,658 metres. Gyirai is situated nearby to the neighborhood ཐལ་སྤུངས་སྒང་སྡེ་ཁུལ། 铁崩岗社区, as well as near སྦྲ་ནག་ཞོལ་སྡེ་ཁུལ། (八朗学社区).| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: subdistrict in Lhasa, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Gyirai Subdistrict”, “Jiri”, “Jiri Jiedao”, “Jiri Subdistrict”, and “Kyiré”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Potala Palace and Lhasa Great Mosque.
Potala Palace
Photo: Ondřej Žváček, CC BY 2.5.
Potala Palace is a museum complex in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It was formerly the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, built in the dzong style on Marpo Ri.
Lhasa Great Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Antoinetav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lhasa Great Mosque, also known as the Hebalin Mosque, is a mosque in Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Chagpori
Peak
Chagpori, or Chakpori, Chokpori, Chagpo Ri is a spirit-mountain of Vajrapani in Lhasa, Tibet. It is south of Potala and is considered to be one of the four holy mountains of central Tibet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lhasa and Zhol Village.
Lhasa
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet autonomous region in China. It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the Himalayas.
Zhol Village
Neighborhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans.
Pargor Subdistrict
Suburb
The Barkhor Square, or Barkhor, is an historic area of narrow streets and a public square with markets, and the circumambulation route around the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, China.
Gyirai
- Categories: subdistrict in China and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.6524° or 29° 39′ 9″ northLongitude
91.1363° or 91° 8′ 11″ eastElevation
3,658 metres (12,001 feet)Open location code
7MXHM42P+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 4103161630OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Gyirai” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jiri (baranggay sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Jiri”
- Chinese: “Jírì Jiēdào”
- Chinese: “吉日”
- Chinese: “吉日街道”
- Chinese: “吉日街道办事处”
- French: “Gyirai”
- French: “Jiri”
- French: “sous-district de Gyirai”
- French: “Sous-district de Gyirai”
- Gan Chinese: “吉日街道”
- Swedish: “Jiri”
- Tibetan: “Gyirai”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་རས་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་རས”
- Wu Chinese: “吉日街道”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as ཐལ་སྤུངས་སྒང་སྡེ་ཁུལ། 铁崩岗社区 and སྐྱིད་རས་སྡེ་ཁུལ། 吉日社区.
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