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Gyantse

Gyantse, officially Gyangzê Town, is a town located in , Shigatse Prefecture, , China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in , but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities.
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  • Type: Town with 10,000 residents
  • Description: town in Gyantsé, Shigatse, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Chiang-tzu”, “Chiang-tzu-tsung”, “Gyam-dze”, “Gyang-tse Jong”, “Gyangze”, “Gyangzê”, “Gyangzê Chongdai”, “Jiangzi Zhen”, “Kiangtze”, and “江孜县”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palcho Monastery and Gyantse Fortressalt_name.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Alberrosidus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in the Nyangchu river valley in Gyantse, , Shigatse Prefecture, .

Photo: Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn), CC BY 2.0.
Gyantse Dzong or Gyantse Fortress is one of the best preserved dzongs in , perched high above the town of Gyantse on a huge spur of grey brown rock.

Gyantse

Latitude
28.9198° or 28° 55′ 11″ north
Longitude
89.6012° or 89° 36′ 4″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
4,036 metres (13,241 feet)
Open location code
7MWFWJ92+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2419638312
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1281119
Wiki­data ID
Q1999606
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Gyantse” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غيانتسي”
  • Asturian: “Gyantse”
  • Bengali: “গিয়ানৎস”
  • Cebuano: “Jiangzi”
  • Chinese: “jiāngzī zhèn”
  • Chinese: “江孜”
  • Chinese: “江孜鎮”
  • Chinese: “江孜镇”
  • Czech: “Gjance”
  • Czech: “Gyangtse”
  • Czech: “Gyantse”
  • Danish: “Gyantse”
  • Dutch: “Gyantse (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Gyantse”
  • Esperanto: “Gjance”
  • Finnish: “Gyantse”
  • French: “Gyantse”
  • French: “Gyantsé”
  • Gan Chinese: “江孜镇”
  • Greek: “Γιάντσε”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્યાન્ત્સે”
  • Hindi: “ग्यांत्से”
  • Indonesian: “Gyantse”
  • Italian: “Gyangzê”
  • Italian: “Gyantse”
  • Japanese: “ジャンツー”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್ಟ್‌ಸೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಯಾಂಟ್ಸೆ”
  • Korean: “관세”
  • Latvian: “Gjandze”
  • Lithuanian: “Gjangdzė”
  • Lithuanian: “Gjantsė”
  • Malay: “Gyantse”
  • Marathi: “ग्यांतसे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gyantse”
  • Persian: “گیانتسی”
  • Polish: “Ciangcy”
  • Polish: “Gjance”
  • Polish: “Gyangtse”
  • Polish: “Gyangze”
  • Polish: “Gyangzê”
  • Polish: “Gyantse”
  • Polish: “Jiangzi”
  • Portuguese: “Gyantsé”
  • Russian: “Гьянгдзе”
  • Russian: “Гьяндзе”
  • Russian: “Гьянтзе”
  • Russian: “Гьянтсе”
  • Russian: “Гьянце”
  • Russian: “Джангдзе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gyantse”
  • Sinhala: “ජියැන්ට්සේ”
  • Slovak: “Gjance”
  • Slovenian: “Gjantse”
  • Spanish: “Gyangdze”
  • Spanish: “Gyangdzê”
  • Spanish: “Gyantse”
  • Spanish: “Jīang Zǐ”
  • Swedish: “Gyangdzê”
  • Swedish: “Gyangtse”
  • Swedish: “Gyantse”
  • Tamil: “கியான்ட்சே”
  • Telugu: “గ్యాంత్సే”
  • Thai: “กยันเซ”
  • Tibetan: “Gyangzê”
  • Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་རྩེ་”
  • Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
  • Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་རྩེ།”
  • Turkish: “Gyantse”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґ’янґдзе”
  • Ukrainian: “Г’янгцзе”
  • Urdu: “جیانتسی”
  • Vietnamese: “Gyantse”
  • Welsh: “Gyangste”
  • Welsh: “Gyantse”
  • Wu Chinese: “江孜”

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