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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.
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  • Type: City with 104,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level City in Tibet Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
  • Also known as: “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”, “Nagchu City”, “Nagchu Prefecture”, “Nagchu-dzong”, “Nagchuka”, “Nagqu City”, “Nakchukha Dzong”, “Naqu”, “Naqu City”, “Naqu Prefecture”, and “Naqu Zhen”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nagqu Town.

Town
Photo: Yaohua2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nagqu, Nagchu in original Tibetan or Naqu, also known as Nagchuka or Nagquka, is a town in northern , seat of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, approximately 328 km by road north-east of the capital , within the . to the town's west sits on the Qingzang railway at 4,526 m.

Nagqu

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
node 4960798741
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1280517
Wiki­data ID
Q1012460
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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: “Nagqu Chhī”
  • Chinese: “那曲”
  • Chinese: “那曲地区”
  • Chinese: “那曲地區”
  • Chinese: “那曲市”
  • Chinese: “那曲镇”
  • Czech: “Nagčhu”
  • Danish: “Nagqu”
  • Dutch: “Nagchu (prefectuur)”
  • Dutch: “Nagchu”
  • Dutch: “Prefectuur Nagqu”
  • Esperanto: “Nagqu”
  • Finnish: “Nagqu”
  • French: “Nagchu”
  • French: “Nagqu”
  • French: “Prefecture de Nagchu”
  • French: “préfecture de Nagchu”
  • French: “Préfecture de Nagchu”
  • Gan Chinese: “那曲市”
  • German: “Bezirksfreie Stadt Nagqu”
  • German: “Nagchu”
  • German: “Nagqu”
  • German: “Naqu”
  • German: “Regierungsbezirk Nagqu”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ná-khiuk thi-khî”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nagqu thi-khî”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nagqu”
  • Hebrew: “נאגצ’ו”
  • Hindi: “नगचु विभाग”
  • Hindi: “नगचु”
  • Hindi: “नचु विभाग”
  • Indonesian: “Nagqu”
  • Irish: “Nagqu”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Nagqu”
  • Japanese: “ナクチュ地区”
  • Japanese: “ナクチュ市”
  • Japanese: “ナチュ・クル”
  • Japanese: “ナチュ・サクル”
  • Japanese: “ナチュ地区”
  • Japanese: “那曲地区”
  • Korean: “나그추시”
  • Korean: “나추 지구”
  • Korean: “나추지구”
  • Korean: “나취 지구”
  • Korean: “나취시”
  • Lithuanian: “Nagču prefektūra”
  • Malagasy: “Nagqu”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nagqu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nagqu Tē-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nagchu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nagqu”
  • Norwegian: “Nagqu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nagqu”
  • Persian: “ناچو، چین”
  • Persian: “ناگچو”
  • Polish: “Nagqu”
  • Russian: “Нагчу”
  • Russian: “Накчу”
  • Russian: “Нацю”
  • Russian: “Нацюй”
  • Spanish: “Nagchu”
  • Spanish: “Nagqu”
  • Swedish: “Nagchu”
  • Swedish: “Nagqu”
  • Swedish: “Nakchu Prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Nakchu”
  • Thai: “นักชู”
  • Tibetan: “Nagqu”
  • Tibetan: “ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ།”
  • Tibetan: “ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ”
  • Turkish: “Nagqu ili”
  • Turkish: “Nagqu”
  • Ukrainian: “Нагчу”
  • Urdu: “ناگچو”
  • Venetian: “Prefettura de Nagqu”
  • Vietnamese: “Na Pichu”
  • Vietnamese: “Nagchu”
  • Vietnamese: “Nagqu”
  • Vietnamese: “Naqu”
  • Welsh: “Nagqu”
  • Wu Chinese: “那曲市”
  • Yue Chinese: “那曲”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nagqu”. Photo: guan, CC BY 3.0.