Garzê
Ganzi, located in the Sichuan province of China, is a captivating destination known for its stunning Tibetan culture and breathtaking alpine landscapes.Photo: Colegota, CC BY-SA 2.5 es.
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- Type: City with 42,800 residents
- Description: county in Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Ganzi County”, “ganzi xian”, “Ganzi Xian”, “Garze”, “Garze County”, “Garzê County”, and “Kan-tzu Hsien”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kandze Monastery and Khangmar Monastery.
Kandze Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Colegota, CC BY-SA 2.5 es.
Kandze Monastery is situated 2 km north of Garzê Town on a hilltop overlooking the town, in Tibet.
Khangmar Monastery
Buddhist temple
Khangmar Monastery or Kangma Monastery is a Gelugpa establishment to the southeast of Kandze Town, capital Kandze County in Sichuan province, China. There are several other monasteries along the Yalong River including the Gelugpa Drakar, Nyatso, and Tsitso monasteries as well as the Sakya Dontok and the Kagyu Rirak Gonpas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kardze Town.
Kardze Town
Town
Photo: NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kardze or Garzê, called Ganzi in Chinese, is a town and county seat in Kardze County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, China.
Garzê
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Ganzi, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.6244° or 31° 37′ 28″ northLongitude
99.9909° or 99° 59′ 27″ eastPopulation
42,800Elevation
4,282 metres (14,049 feet)IATA airport code
GZGOpen location code
8M3XJXFR+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 6416739696OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Garzê” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ganzi Xian”
- Chinese: “Gānzī Xiàn”
- Chinese: “Garzê-koān”
- Chinese: “甘孜”
- Chinese: “甘孜县”
- Chinese: “甘孜縣”
- Dutch: “Garzê”
- French: “Comte de Garze”
- French: “Comté De Garzê”
- French: “Garze”
- French: “Kardze”
- French: “xian de Garzê”
- French: “Xian de Garzê”
- Gan Chinese: “甘孜县”
- German: “Garzê”
- German: “Kardze”
- Italian: “Contea di Garzê”
- Japanese: “カンゼ県”
- Japanese: “甘孜県”
- Korean: “가르저현”
- Korean: “간쯔현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Garzê-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Garzê”
- Norwegian: “Garzê”
- Persian: “شهرستان گارزه”
- Pinyin: “Gānzī Xiàn”
- Russian: “Ганьцзы”
- Russian: “Гардзе”
- Spanish: “Condado de Garze”
- Spanish: “Condado de Garzê”
- Swedish: “Garzê, Garzê”
- Swedish: “Garzê”
- Tibetan: “Garzê Xian”
- Tibetan: “Garzê”
- Tibetan: “དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།”
- Ukrainian: “Ґардзе”
- Ukrainian: “Гарцзе”
- Vietnamese: “Cam Tư”
- Wu Chinese: “甘孜县”
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