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Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Garzê in Tibetan, is located in western Province, China. It is set amongst the scenic high alpine mountains of the province and it is historically part of the Tibetan region of Kham making the area interesting for both culture and landscape.
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, is the largest city and capital of Ganzi Tibetan Prefecture, in western Province, .

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Ganzi, located in the of , is a captivating destination known for its stunning Tibetan culture and breathtaking alpine landscapes.

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Dege, is in Sichuan Province in south-west . The city is famous for its Tibetan lamasery which hosts an invaluable treasure of wooden printing blocks with Tibetan Buddhist texts.

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County or Dapba in Tibetan is a county of western Sichuan Province, China, located in the eastern . It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture with an overwhelmingly Tibetan population.

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, is in Sichuan Province in south-west . It also belongs to the ancient Tibetan province of Kham. Being a necessary overnight-stop on the 'Backdoor'-route to , the town is a pleasant place to linger or to serve as starting point for excursions into the surrounding mountain areas.

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or Sêrtar 色达县 is a remote county of Ganzi prefecture, Province, China. It is one of the 18 counties under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The county has an area of 9,340 km². It is located about 780 km from .

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, also Lithang, formally known as Gaocheng Town, is the county seat of County, in western Sichuan Province, south-west . is a bustling little place with colorful street life thanks to the nomadic shepherds and Tibetan people coming here to sell and buy their products.

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is a modern town of under 10,000 people set in a steep valley along the southern Tibet-Sichuan highway in Ganzi in , at an altitude of roughly 2,900 meters.

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or Nyagrong County is a county in the west of , China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

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is a small town in , . has very famous mountains and natural hot springs and beautiful environment.

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is in , . This contains the National Nature Reserve of China known under the same name, and 1 village at 4,000 m. The only gateway is the town that used to be known as Riwa but was renamed 2 Shangri-La.

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, also known as Lhagang is a small town in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of western in southwestern China. It is located in the historical region of eastern .

, or Boxab, is a town in in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of , . As of 2000 it had 6,794 inhabitants. Town stands at the gateway to the Hailuogou Glacier Forest Park, south of and east of .

, is in Ganzi of . It is the name of a national park, and of the largest of five lakes within the park. The entrance lies 21 km from , and is especially worthwhile to visit during the autumn months.

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is a small town in Ganzi prefecture in Sichuan Province in south-west . More or less a one horse town complete with Tibetan truck stop and curious and friendly gazzing nomads.

is in the Ganzi Prefecture of , west of .

Ganzi

  • Type: Region with 1,110,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, “Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou”, “Garze”, “Garzê”, “Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, “Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, “Garze Zangzu Zizhizhou”, “Hsi-k’ang-sheng-tsang-tsu Tzu-chih-ch’ü”, “Kan-tzu Tibetan Autonomous Chou”, “Kan-tzu Tibetan Autonomous District”, “Kan-tzu-tsang-tsu Tzu-chih-chou”, “Kandze”, “Kandzé Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, “Kantse Tibetan Autonomous Chou”, “Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, “Sikang Tibetan Autonomous District”, and “དཀར་མཛེས”
  • Categories: autonomous prefecture and locality
  • Location: , , , ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
30.0522° or 30° 3′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
101.961° or 101° 57′ 40″ east
Population
1,110,000
Elevation
4,334 metres (14,219 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3019857102
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
1810269
Wiki­data ID
Q128104
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ganzi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية غارزي التبتية ذاتية الحكم”
  • Asturian: “Prefectura autónoma tibetana de Garzê”
  • Asturian: “Prefeutura autónoma tibetana de Garzê”
  • Basque: “Garze Tibetar Prefektura autonomoa”
  • Basque: “Garzê Tibetar Prefektura autonomoa”
  • Basque: “Garze”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura Autònoma Tibetana de Garze”
  • Cebuano: “Garzê Zangzu Zizhizhou”
  • Chinese: “ganzi zhou”
  • Chinese: “Garzê Chōng-cho̍k Chū-tī-chiu”
  • Chinese: “甘孜”
  • Chinese: “甘孜州”
  • Chinese: “甘孜藏族自治州”
  • Chinese: “西康省藏族自治区”
  • Czech: “Kardze”
  • Danish: “Garzê”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Tibetaanse Prefectuur Garze”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Tibetaanse Prefectuur Garzê”
  • Dutch: “Garze”
  • Dutch: “Garzê”
  • Dutch: “Kardze”
  • Esperanto: “Ganzi-a Tibetana Aŭtonoma Subprovinco”
  • Finnish: “Garzên tiibetiläisten autonominen prefektuuri”
  • French: “DKar-mdzes”
  • French: “Ganze”
  • French: “Ganzi”
  • French: “Garzê”
  • French: “Prefecture autonome tibetaine de Garze”
  • French: “préfecture autonome tibétaine de Garzê”
  • French: “Préfecture autonome tibétaine de Garzê”
  • Gan Chinese: “甘孜藏族自治州”
  • German: “Autonomer Bezirk Garze der Tibeter”
  • German: “Autonomer Bezirk Garzê der Tibeter”
  • German: “Dajianlu”
  • German: “Garzê”
  • German: “Kandse”
  • German: “Kandze”
  • German: “Kardze”
  • German: “Ta-chien-lu”
  • German: “Tachienlu”
  • German: “Tatsienlu”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Garzê Chhòng-chhu̍k Chhṳ-chhṳ-chû”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâm-zṳ̂ Chhong-chhu̍k Chhṳ-chhṳ-chû”
  • Hebrew: “הנציבות האוטונומית הטיבטית גארזה”
  • Hungarian: “Tibeti Autonóm Tartomány”
  • Italian: “prefettura autonoma tibetana di Garzê”
  • Italian: “Prefettura autonoma tibetana di Garzê”
  • Japanese: “カンゼ・チベット族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガンゼ・チベット族自治州”
  • Japanese: “カンゼ・プーリー・ランキョン・クル”
  • Japanese: “カンゼ州”
  • Japanese: “ガンゼ州”
  • Japanese: “カンゼ蔵族自治州”
  • Japanese: “カンゼ藏族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガンゼ藏族自治州”
  • Japanese: “甘孜チベット族自治州”
  • Japanese: “甘孜州”
  • Japanese: “甘孜蔵族自治州”
  • Korean: “가오즈 티베트족 자치주”
  • Korean: “가오즈티베트족 자치주”
  • Korean: “간쯔 티베트족 자치주”
  • Korean: “간쯔”
  • Lithuanian: “Gandzi tibetiečių autonominė prefektūra”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Garzê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Garzê Chōng-cho̍k Chū-tī-chiu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Garze”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Garzê”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Garzê”
  • Norwegian: “Garzê”
  • Persian: “ولایت خودمختار گارزئی تبتی”
  • Polish: “Garzê”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura autonomă tibetană Garzê”
  • Russian: “Ганьцзы-Тибетский автономный округ”
  • Russian: “Гардзе-Тибетский автономный округ”
  • Spanish: “Ganzi tibetana”
  • Spanish: “Ganzi”
  • Spanish: “Garze”
  • Spanish: “Garzê”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autonoma tibetana de Ganzi”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autónoma tibetana de Garzê”
  • Swedish: “Garzê”
  • Tibetan: “dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul”
  • Tibetan: “dkar mdzes khul”
  • Tibetan: “dkar mdzes rang skyong khul”
  • Tibetan: “Dkar-mdzes bod-rigs rang-skyong khul”
  • Tibetan: “Kardzé Börik Rangkyongkhül”
  • Tibetan: “དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་”
  • Tibetan: “དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།”
  • Turkish: “Garzê Tibet Özerk İli”
  • Turkish: “Garzê”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарцзе-Тибетська автономна префектура”
  • Urdu: “گارزئے تبتی خود مختار پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Cam Tư”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu tự trị dân tộc Tạng Cam Tư”
  • Vietnamese: “Garzê”
  • Wu Chinese: “甘孜藏族自治州”
  • Yue Chinese: “甘孜”

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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 “Ganzi”. Photo: 蒋亦炯, CC BY-SA 3.0.