Kangding
Kangding, is the largest city and capital of Ganzi Tibetan Prefecture, in western Sichuan Province, China.
- Type: City with 127,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Garzê, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Comte de Kangding”, “Comté de kangding”, “Dajianlu”, “Dardo”, “Dartsedo”, “Dartsendo”, “Darzedo”, “Darzêdo”, “K’an-ting”, “K’ang-ting”, “K’ang-ting-hsien”, “Kangding (arrondissement)”, “Kangting”, “Ta-chien-lu”, “Tachienlu”, “Tacienlu”, “Tarchendo”, “Tatsienlu”, “Tatsientu”, “Дарцедо”, “དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”, “དར་རྩེ་མདོ་རྫོང་།”, “དར་རྩེ་མདོ།”, “タルツェムド”, “ダルツェンド”, “康定县”, “康定市 དར་མདོ།”, “康定縣”, “打箭炉”, and “打箭爐”
Kangding
- Categories: county-level city of China, county of China, and locality
- Location: Lucheng, Ganzi, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.0003° or 30° 0′ 1″ north
Longitude
101.9546° or 101° 57′ 16″ east
Population
127,000
Elevation
2,826 metres (9,272 feet)
IATA airport code
KGT
Open location code
8P232X23+4R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Kangding” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kangding”
- Cebuano: “Kangding”
- Chinese: “康定”
- Chinese: “康定市”
- Czech: “Kchang-ting”
- Czech: “Khangding”
- Danish: “Kangding”
- Dutch: “Kangding”
- Finnish: “Kangding”
- French: “Kangding”
- French: “Ville-district de Kangding”
- French: “Xian de Kangding”
- Gan Chinese: “康定市”
- German: “Kangding”
- Italian: “Kangding”
- Japanese: “康定市”
- Japanese: “康定県”
- Kikuyu: “Kangding”
- Korean: “캉딩 현”
- Korean: “캉딩시”
- Malagasy: “Kangding”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Khong-tēng-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangding”
- Norwegian: “Kangding”
- Persian: “کانگدین”
- Polish: “Kangding”
- Portuguese: “Kangding”
- Russian: “Кандин”
- Spanish: “Kangding”
- Swedish: “Kangding, Garzê”
- Swedish: “Kangding”
- Tibetan: “དར་མདོ་”
- Tibetan: “དར་མདོ།”
- Turkish: “Kangding”
- Ukrainian: “Кандін”
- Urdu: “کانگدنگ”
- Vietnamese: “Khang Định”
- Welsh: “Kangding”
- Wu Chinese: “康定市”
- Yue Chinese: “康定”
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