Shangrila
Shangrila is in Yunnan Province. The second town with this name is in Sichuan, and known as the gateway to Yading National Park.Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 65,700 residents
- Description: county-level city
- Also known as: “Chung-tien Hsien”, “Gyalthang County”, “Gyeltang County”, “Shangri-La”, “Shangri-La City”, “Shangri-La County”, “Shangri-La, Yunnan”, “Xamgyi’nyilha”, “Xianggelila”, “Xianggelila Xian”, “Zhongdian”, “Zhongdian County”, and “Zhongdian Xian”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 香巴拉藏文化博物馆 and Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Museum.
Former site of the Diqing Prefecture People’s Government
Monument
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Former site of the Diqing Prefecture People’s Government is a monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jiantang.
Jiantang
Town
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jiantang or Gyaitang is a town in northern Yunnan, seat of Shangri-La County and Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Shangrila
- Categories: county-level city, county of China, and locality
- Location: Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Northwestern Yunnan, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.8363° or 27° 50′ 11″ northLongitude
99.7041° or 99° 42′ 15″ eastPopulation
65,700Elevation
4,013 metres (13,166 feet)Open location code
7MVXRPP3+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 5116102858OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1279460Wikidata ID
Q933866
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Yue Chinese—“Shangrila” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শাংরিলা”
- Catalan: “Shangri-La”
- Cebuano: “Shangri-La Xian”
- Chinese: “Shangri-La Chhī”
- Chinese: “Xiānggélǐlā Shì”
- Chinese: “中甸县”
- Chinese: “中甸縣”
- Chinese: “香格里拉”
- Chinese: “香格里拉县”
- Chinese: “香格里拉市”
- Chinese: “香格里拉縣”
- Czech: “Šangri-la”
- Dutch: “Shangri-La”
- Esperanto: “Shangri-la”
- Esperanto: “Zhongdian”
- Finnish: “Shangri-La”
- French: “Shangri-La”
- French: “Shangrila”
- Gan Chinese: “香格里拉市”
- German: “Shangri-La”
- German: “Zhongdian”
- Hebrew: “ז’ונגדיאן”
- Hungarian: “Sangrila”
- Italian: “Shangri-La”
- Japanese: “シャングリラ市”
- Japanese: “シャングリラ県”
- Japanese: “中甸県”
- Kikuyu: “Shangri-La City”
- Korean: “샹그릴라 현”
- Korean: “샹그릴라시”
- Macedonian: “Шангри-Ла (околиски град)”
- Macedonian: “Шангри-Ла”
- Malagasy: “Shangri-La”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shangri-La Chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shangri-La”
- Norwegian: “Shangri-La”
- Romanian: “Shangri-La”
- Russian: “Шангри-Ла”
- Slovenian: “Šangri La”
- Slovenian: “Šangri-La, Junan”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Shangri-La”
- Spanish: “Condado de Shangri-La”
- Swedish: “Shangri-La”
- Thai: “นครแชงกรี-ลา”
- Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་རྫོང་།”
- Turkish: “Shangri-La (şehir)”
- Turkish: “Shangri-La”
- Ukrainian: “Шангрі-Ла (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Шангрі-Ла”
- Urdu: “شانگری-لا شہر”
- Vietnamese: “Shangri-La, Địch Khánh”
- Vietnamese: “Shangri-La”
- Wu Chinese: “香格里拉市”
- Yue Chinese: “香格里拉”
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