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".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 239,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- Also known as: “Linzhi”, “Linzhi Diqu”, “Nyangchi”, “Nyingchi Diqu”, “Nyingchi Prefecture”, and “Nyingtri”
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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".
Nyingchi
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.651° or 29° 39′ 4″ northLongitude
94.3602° or 94° 21′ 37″ eastPopulation
239,000Elevation
2,971 metres (9,747 feet)IATA airport code
LZYOpen location code
7MXPM926+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 4238862309OpenStreetMap 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: “Nyingchi Chhī”
- Chinese: “林芝”
- Chinese: “林芝地区”
- Chinese: “林芝市”
- Czech: “Ňingthri”
- Danish: “Nyingchi”
- Dutch: “Nyingtri (prefectuur)”
- Dutch: “Nyingtri”
- Dutch: “Prefectuur Nyingchi”
- Esperanto: “Njinĉi”
- Esperanto: “Nyingchi”
- Finnish: “Nyingchi”
- French: “Linzhi”
- French: “Nyingchi”
- French: “Nyingtri”
- French: “Prefecture de Nyingchi”
- French: “préfecture de Nyingchi”
- Gan Chinese: “林芝市”
- German: “línzhī shì”
- German: “Linzhi”
- German: “Nyangtri”
- German: “Nyingchi”
- German: “Nyingthri”
- German: “Nyingtri”
- Greek: “Νίνγκτσι”
- Gujarati: “નિઇંગચી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lìm-chṳ̂-sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nyingchi-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “ניינגצ’י”
- Hindi: “न्यिंगख्री विभाग”
- Hindi: “न्यिंगची विभाग”
- Hindi: “न्यिंगची”
- Hindi: “लिन्झी विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Nyingcsi”
- Indonesian: “Nyingchi”
- Irish: “Nyingchi”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Nyingchi”
- Japanese: “ニャンティ地区”
- Japanese: “ニンティ・クル”
- Japanese: “ニンティ・サクル”
- Japanese: “ニンティ地区”
- Japanese: “ニンティ市”
- Japanese: “林芝地区”
- Kannada: “ನಿಯಿಂಗಿ”
- Kikuyu: “Nyingchi”
- Korean: “닝치 지구”
- Korean: “닝치”
- Korean: “린즈 지구”
- Korean: “린즈시”
- Korean: “링즈 지구”
- Latvian: “Ningči”
- Lithuanian: “Ningčis”
- Lithuanian: “Njingči prefektūra”
- Malay: “Nyingchi”
- Marathi: “निंगची”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Nyingchi”
- 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: “la Suiza del Tibet”
- Spanish: “la Suiza del Tíbet”
- Spanish: “Linzhi”
- Spanish: “Nyingchi”
- Swedish: “Linzhi”
- Swedish: “Nyingchi”
- Swedish: “Nyingtri Prefektur”
- Swedish: “Nyingtri”
- Tamil: “நயிங்ச்சி”
- Telugu: “న్యియింగ్షి”
- Thai: “จังหวัดหลินจือ”
- Thai: “ญิงจี”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ།”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཁྲི།”
- Tibetan: “ཉིང་ཁྲི”
- Turkish: “Nyingchi”
- Ukrainian: “Ньїнгчі”
- Urdu: “نینگچی”
- Urdu: “نیینجچی”
- Venetian: “Prefettura de Nyingchi”
- Vietnamese: “Lâm Tri”
- Vietnamese: “Mộc Chi”
- Vietnamese: “Nyingchi”
- Welsh: “Nyingchi”
- Wu Chinese: “林芝市”
- Yue Chinese: “林芝”
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