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Benzilan

Benzilan is a small town in extreme northwestern Province. It lies along a stretch of the Jinsha River that forms the border with Province, roughly halfway along the road from Zhongdian to .
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  • Type: Town with 8,890 residents
  • Description: town in Dêqên County, Diqing, Yunnan, China
  • Also known as: “Benzilan Town”, “Benzilan Zhen”, “Pondzirak”, and “Pongdzirak”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waka.

Town
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is a town.

Benzilan

Latitude
28.2435° or 28° 14′ 37″ north
Longitude
99.302° or 99° 18′ 7″ east
Population
8,890
Elevation
3,485 metres (11,434 feet)
Open location code
7MWX68V2+CR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332546413
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6643963
Wiki­data ID
Q10942397
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Benzilan” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Benzilan”
  • Cebuano: “Benzilan (kapital sa baranggay sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, Yunnan Sheng, lat 28,24, long 99,37)”
  • Cebuano: “Benzilan”
  • Chinese: “奔子栏”
  • Chinese: “奔子栏镇”
  • French: “bourg de Benzilan”
  • French: “Bourg de Benzilan”
  • Gan Chinese: “奔子栏镇”
  • Russian: “Бэнцьцзылань”
  • Swedish: “Benzilan”
  • Tibetan: “ཀོང་རྩེད་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
  • Vietnamese: “Bôn Tử Lan”
  • Welsh: “Benzilan”
  • Wu Chinese: “奔子栏镇”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Benzilan”. Photo: 归零者, CC BY-SA 4.0.