Nyingchi
Nyingchi is a prefecture level city in southwestern Tibet. Nyingchi is different from the rest of Tibet. It has a humid climate, rich vegetation and many virgin forests. Some people call it the "Switzerland of Tibet".
- Type: City with 239,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- Also known as: “la Suiza del Tibet”, “la Suiza del Tíbet”, “Lâm Tri”, “Linzhi”, “Linzhi Diqu”, “Mộc Chi”, “Nyangchi”, “Nyangtri”, “Nyingchi Diqu”, “Nyingchi Prefecture”, “Nyingthri”, “Nyingtri”, “Nyingtri (prefectuur)”, “Nyingtri Prefektur”, “Prefecture de Nyingchi”, “Prefectuur Nyingchi”, “न्यिंगख्री विभाग”, “लिन्झी विभाग”, “จังหวัดหลินจือ”, “ཉིང་ཁྲི”, “ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར”, “ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ།”, “닝치”, “닝치 지구”, “링즈 지구”, “ニャンティ地区”, “ニンティ・クル”, “ニンティ・サクル”, “ニンティ地区”, and “林芝市 ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bayi.
Bayi
Suburb
Nyingchi
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.651° or 29° 39′ 4″ north
Longitude
94.3602° or 94° 21′ 37″ east
Population
239,000
Elevation
2,971 metres (9,747 feet)
IATA airport code
LZY
Open location code
7MXPM926+C3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Nyingchi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نينغتشى”
- Armenian: “Նինչի”
- Asturian: “Nyingchi”
- Basque: “Nyingchi prefektura”
- Bengali: “নিংকায়”
- Cebuano: “Nyingchi Prefecture”
- Chinese: “línzhī shì”
- Chinese: “林芝”
- Chinese: “林芝地区”
- Chinese: “林芝市”
- Czech: “Ňingthri”
- Danish: “Nyingchi”
- Dutch: “Nyingtri”
- Esperanto: “Njinĉi”
- Esperanto: “Nyingchi”
- Finnish: “Nyingchi”
- French: “Linzhi”
- French: “Nyingchi”
- French: “préfecture de Nyingchi”
- Gan Chinese: “林芝市”
- German: “Nyingchi”
- Greek: “Νίνγκτσι”
- Gujarati: “નિઇંગચી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lìm-chṳ̂-sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nyingchi-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “ניינגצ’י”
- Hindi: “न्यिंगची विभाग”
- Hindi: “न्यिंगची”
- Hungarian: “Nyingcsi”
- Indonesian: “Nyingchi”
- Irish: “Nyingchi”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Nyingchi”
- Japanese: “ニンティ市”
- Kannada: “ನಿಯಿಂಗಿ”
- Kikuyu: “Nyingchi”
- Korean: “린즈 지구”
- Korean: “린즈시”
- Latvian: “Ningči”
- Lithuanian: “Ningčis”
- Lithuanian: “Njingči prefektūra”
- Malay: “Nyingchi”
- Marathi: “निंगची”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Nyingchi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nyingchi Chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nyingchi-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyingchi”
- Norwegian: “Nyingchi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nyingchi”
- Persian: “نینگچی”
- Persian: “نیینگچی”
- Polish: “Nyingchi”
- Portuguese: “Nyingchi”
- Russian: “Ньингчи”
- Sinhala: “නින්ග්චි”
- Spanish: “Nyingchi”
- Swedish: “Nyingtri”
- Tamil: “நயிங்ச்சி”
- Telugu: “న్యియింగ్షి”
- Thai: “ญิงจี”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཁྲི།”
- Turkish: “Nyingchi”
- Ukrainian: “Ньїнгчі”
- Urdu: “نینگچی”
- Urdu: “نیینجچی”
- Venetian: “Prefettura de Nyingchi”
- Vietnamese: “Nyingchi”
- Welsh: “Nyingchi”
- Wu Chinese: “林芝市”
- Yue Chinese: “林芝”
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