Litang
Litang, also Lithang, formally known as Gaocheng Town, is the county seat of Litang County, in western Sichuan Province, south-west China. Litang 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 47,500 residents
- Description: seat and town of Litang, Garze, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “gan zi”, “Gaocheng”, “Gaocheng Town”, “Gaocheng Zhen”, “Gaocheng, Sichuan”, “Li-ch’ang”, “Li-hua”, “Li-hua-hsien”, “Li-t’ang-hsien”, “Lichan”, “Lihwa”, “Likhua”, “Tochong”, “ལི་ཐང།”, and “理塘县”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Litang Monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cunge Township.
Cunge Township
Town
Cunge is a township in Litang County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. In 2010, Cunge Township had a total population of 2,663: 1,364 males and 1,299 females: 787 aged under 14, 1,783 aged between 15 and 65 and 139 aged over 65. Cunge Township is situated 5 km west of Litang.
Litang
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Ganzi, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.999° or 29° 59′ 56″ northLongitude
100.2689° or 100° 16′ 8″ eastPopulation
47,500Elevation
3,935 metres (12,910 feet)Open location code
7PX2X7X9+JHOpenStreetMap ID
node 244081068OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1810604Wikidata ID
Q1094547
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Litang” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Gaocheng”
- Chinese: “gāochéng zhèn”
- Chinese: “理塘”
- Chinese: “高城”
- Chinese: “高城鎮”
- Chinese: “高城镇”
- Dutch: “Litang (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Litang”
- French: “bourg de Gaocheng”
- French: “Bourg de Gaocheng”
- Gan Chinese: “高城镇”
- German: “Gaocheng”
- Persian: “گاوچنگ، شیچوان”
- Polish: “Litang”
- Polish: “Lithang”
- Swedish: “Gaocheng (häradshuvudort i Kina, Sichuan Sheng, lat 29,99, long 100,27)”
- Swedish: “Gaocheng”
- Tibetan: “མཐོ་གྲོང་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Ukrainian: “Гаочен”
- Ukrainian: “Літанг”
- Vietnamese: “Lý Đường”
- Wu Chinese: “高城镇”
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