Deqin
Deqin is a county in Yunnan province, in the Hengduan Range at the eastern end of the Himalayas. 80% of its 55,000 inhabitants are Tibetan. If you can deal with the altitude, it makes a great place to hike from, and if you can not then just hanging out in town is also very rewarding.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: 归零者, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 13,700 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Deqen County”, “Dêqên County”, and “Deqin County”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shengping.
Shengping
Town
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Deqin is a county in Yunnan province, in the Hengduan Range at the eastern end of the Himalayas. 80% of its 55,000 inhabitants are Tibetan. If you can deal with the altitude, it makes a great place to hike from, and if you can not then just hanging out in town is also very rewarding.
Deqin
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Northwestern Yunnan, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.4752° or 28° 28′ 31″ northLongitude
98.9177° or 98° 55′ 4″ eastPopulation
13,700Elevation
4,038 metres (13,248 feet)Open location code
7MWWFWG9+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 4496382389OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1281366Wikidata ID
Q1270784
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Deqin” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dêqên County”
- Chinese: “Dêqên Koān”
- Chinese: “Déqīn Xiàn”
- Chinese: “德欽”
- Chinese: “德欽設治局”
- Chinese: “德钦”
- Chinese: “德钦县”
- Chinese: “阿墩縣”
- Chinese: “阿墩設治局”
- Dutch: “Dêqên (Kreis)”
- French: “Comte de Deqen”
- French: “Comté de dêqên”
- French: “Comté de Dêqên”
- French: “Comté De Dêqên”
- French: “Deqin”
- French: “xian de Dêqên”
- French: “Xian de Dêqên”
- Gan Chinese: “德钦县”
- German: “Dêqên (Kreis)”
- German: “Dêqên Kreis”
- German: “Dêqên”
- German: “Deqin Xian”
- German: “Déqīn Xiàn”
- German: “Deqin”
- Italian: “Contea di Dêqên”
- Japanese: “徳欽”
- Japanese: “徳欽県”
- Japanese: “徳欽設治局”
- Japanese: “德欽”
- Japanese: “德欽県”
- Korean: “더친 현”
- Korean: “더친현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dêqên Koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dêqên”
- Norwegian: “Dêqên”
- Persian: “شهرستان دچن”
- Romanian: “Districtul Dêqên”
- Russian: “Дечен”
- Russian: “Дэцинь”
- Slovenian: “Deken”
- Slovenian: “Dêqên”
- Spanish: “Dêqên”
- Swedish: “Dêqên, Dêqên”
- Swedish: “Dêqên”
- Tibetan: “བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་”
- Ukrainian: “Дечен”
- Urdu: “دیچنگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Dêqên”
- Wu Chinese: “德钦县”
- Yue Chinese: “德欽”
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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 “Deqin”. Photo: 归零者, CC BY-SA 4.0.