Gyirong
Gyirong County is a county of the Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is famous for its mild climatic conditions and its abundant vegetation which is unusual for the Tibetan plateau.
- Type: City with 17,200 residents
- Description: county in Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Chi-lung Hsien”, “Gyirong County”, “Jilong”, “jilong xian”, “Jilong Xian”, “ko=지룽현”, “Kyirong”, “Kyirong County”, and “吉隆县 སྐྱིད་གྲོང།”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dzongka.
Dzongka
Town
Dzongka or Zongga is a town and the administrative headquarters of Gyirong County in the southwestern Tibet region of China bordering Nepal. Being the administrative headquarters, it is also sometimes referred to as "Gyirong Dzong" or "Gyirong Town", but it is different from the original Kyirong Town in the southern part of the county.
Gyirong
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.8559° or 28° 51′ 21″ north
Longitude
85.295° or 85° 17′ 42″ east
Population
17,200
Elevation
4,897 metres (16,066 feet)
Open location code
7MW7V74W+92
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Gyirong” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գյիրոնգ”
- Azerbaijani: “Qironq”
- Catalan: “Gyirong”
- Cebuano: “Gyirong Xian”
- Chinese: “Gyirong Koān”
- Chinese: “Jílóng xiàn”
- Chinese: “吉隆”
- Chinese: “吉隆县”
- Chinese: “吉隆縣”
- Czech: “Kjidrong”
- Dutch: “Gyirong (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Gyirong”
- Esperanto: “Gjironga Distrikto”
- French: “Comte de Gyirong”
- French: “Comté de Gyirong”
- French: “Gyirong”
- French: “Jilong”
- French: “Kyirong”
- French: “xian de Gyirong”
- French: “Xian de Gyirong”
- Gan Chinese: “吉隆县”
- German: “Gyirong”
- German: “Jílóng Xiàn”
- German: “Jílong”
- German: “Kyidrong”
- German: “Kyirong Dzong”
- German: “Kyirong”
- Hebrew: “מחוז גיירונג”
- Indonesian: “Gyirong County”
- Indonesian: “jilong xian”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Kyirong”
- Italian: “Contea di Gyirong”
- Japanese: “キドン県”
- Japanese: “吉隆県”
- Korean: “기롱현”
- Korean: “지룽현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gyirong-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gyirong”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyirong”
- Norwegian: “Gyirong”
- Persian: “شهرستان گییرونگ”
- Polish: “Gyirong”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Gyirong”
- Portuguese: “Gyirong”
- Russian: “Гьиронг”
- Russian: “Кьиронг”
- Spanish: “Gyirong”
- Swedish: “Kyirong”
- Tibetan: “Gyirong Xian”
- Tibetan: “Gyirong”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་གྲོང”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་རོང་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “སྐྱིད་རོང”
- Ukrainian: “Г’їронг”
- Ukrainian: “Ґ’їронґ”
- Urdu: “گئیرونگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Cát Long”
- Vietnamese: “Gyirong”
- Wu Chinese: “吉隆县”
- Yue Chinese: “吉隆”
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