Deqin

Deqin is a county in province, in the Hengduan Range at the eastern end of the . 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.
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  • Type: City with 13,700 residents
  • Description: county
  • Also known as: “Comte de Deqen”, “Comté de dêqên”, “Comté de Dêqên”, “Comté De Dêqên”, “Deqen County”, “Dêqên County”, “Deqin County”, “Deqin Xian”, “Дэцинь”, “徳欽”, “徳欽設治局”, “德欽県”, “德欽設治局”, “德钦县 བདེ་ཆེན།”, “阿墩縣”, and “阿墩設治局”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shengping.

Town
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Deqin is a county in province, in the Hengduan Range at the eastern end of the .

Deqin

Latitude
28.4752° or 28° 28′ 31″ north
Longitude
98.9177° or 98° 55′ 4″ east
Population
13,700
Elevation
4,038 metres (13,248 feet)
Open location code
7MWWFWG9+33
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4496382389
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1281366
Wiki­data ID
Q1270784
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Deqin” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Dêqên County”
  • Chinese: “Déqīn Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “德钦”
  • Chinese: “德钦县”
  • Dutch: “Dêqên (Kreis)”
  • French: “Deqin”
  • French: “xian de Dêqên”
  • French: “Xian de Dêqên”
  • Gan Chinese: “德钦县”
  • German: “Dêqên (Kreis)”
  • German: “Dêqên Kreis”
  • German: “Dêqên”
  • Italian: “Contea di Dêqên”
  • Japanese: “徳欽県”
  • Korean: “더친 현”
  • Korean: “더친현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dêqên Koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dêqên”
  • Norwegian: “Dêqên”
  • Persian: “شهرستان دچن”
  • Romanian: “Districtul Dêqên”
  • Russian: “Дечен”
  • Slovenian: “Deken”
  • 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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