Nagqu
Nagqu is a prefecture-level city in northern Tibet and the largest prefecture-level city in China by land area. In addition to being a transit station for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, it also has many unknown beauties.
- Type: City with 104,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level City in Tibet Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
- Also known as: “Bezirksfreie Stadt Nagqu”, “Hei He”, “Hei-ho”, “Hei-ho-chen”, “Heihe”, “Kheykhe”, “Na Pichu”, “Na-ch’ü”, “Na-ch’ü-k’a”, “Na-ko-ch’u-tsung”, “Na-ku-chia”, “Na-ptchu”, “Nag-chu-dsong”, “Nagchhu Dzong”, “Nagchhuka”, “Nagchhukha”, “Nagchu (prefectuur)”, “Nagchu City”, “Nagchu Prefecture”, “Nagchu-dzong”, “Nagchuka”, “Nagqu City”, “Nagqu ili”, “Nakchu Prefektur”, “Nakchukha Dzong”, “Naqu”, “Naqu City”, “Naqu Prefecture”, “Naqu Zhen”, “Prefecture de Nagchu”, “Prefectuur Nagqu”, “Regierungsbezirk Nagqu”, “Накчу”, “Нацю”, “Нацюй”, “नचु विभाग”, “ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ”, “나추 지구”, “나추지구”, “ナチュ・クル”, “ナチュ・サクル”, “ナチュ地区”, “那曲地区”, “那曲地區”, and “那曲市 ནག་ཆུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shabten Monastery.
Shabten Monastery
Buddhist temple
The Shaten Monastery is a temple located in Nagqu Town in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, which is associated with the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nagqu Town.
Nagqu Town
Town
Nagqu
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.4786° or 31° 28′ 43″ north
Longitude
92.0498° or 92° 2′ 59″ east
Population
104,000
Elevation
4,512 metres (14,803 feet)
Open location code
8M3JF2HX+CW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Nagqu” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Nagqu”
- Basque: “Nagqu Prefektura”
- Basque: “Nagqu”
- Bengali: “নাগ-ছু বিভাগ”
- Catalan: “Nagqu”
- Cebuano: “Nagqu”
- Chinese: “那曲”
- Chinese: “那曲市”
- Chinese: “那曲镇”
- Czech: “Nagčhu”
- Danish: “Nagqu”
- Dutch: “Nagchu”
- Esperanto: “Nagĉu”
- Esperanto: “Nagqu”
- Finnish: “Nagqu”
- French: “Nagqu”
- French: “préfecture de Nagchu”
- French: “Préfecture de Nagchu”
- Gan Chinese: “那曲市”
- German: “Nagqu”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ná-khiuk thi-khî”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nagqu thi-khî”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nagqu”
- Hebrew: “נאגצ’ו”
- Hindi: “नगचु विभाग”
- Hindi: “नगचु”
- Indonesian: “Nagqu”
- Irish: “Nagqu”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Nagqu”
- Japanese: “ナクチュ地区”
- Japanese: “ナクチュ市”
- Korean: “나그추시”
- Korean: “나취 지구”
- Korean: “나취시”
- Lithuanian: “Nagču prefektūra”
- Malagasy: “Nagqu”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Nagqu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nagqu Chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nagqu Tē-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nagqu”
- Norwegian: “Nagqu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nagqu”
- Persian: “ناچو، چین”
- Persian: “ناگچو”
- Polish: “Nagqu”
- Russian: “Нагчу”
- Spanish: “Nagqu”
- Swedish: “Nagchu”
- Swedish: “Nakchu”
- Thai: “นักชู”
- Tibetan: “Nagqu”
- Tibetan: “ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ།”
- Turkish: “Nagqu”
- Ukrainian: “Нагчу”
- Urdu: “ناگچو”
- Venetian: “Prefettura de Nagqu”
- Vietnamese: “Nagqu”
- Welsh: “Nagqu”
- Wu Chinese: “那曲市”
- Yue Chinese: “那曲”
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