Shannan
Shannan, also known as Lhoka, is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Shannan includes Gonggar County within its jurisdiction with Gongkar Chö Monastery, Gonggar Dzong, and Gonggar Airport all located near Gonggar town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Samye
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Samye Monastery, full name Samye Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen.
Tsethang
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Tsetang or Zedang, is the fourth largest city in Tibet and is located in the Yarlung Valley, 183 km southeast of Lhasa in Nedong District of the Shannan Prefecture in the Tibet region of China.
Shannan
- Type: City with 354,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in southeastern Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Jiasha”, “Lhoka”, “Lhokha”, “Shannan City”, “Shannan Prefecture”, “Shannan, Tibet”, and “ལྷོ་ཁ།”
- Categories: prefecture-level city and locality
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
29.2391° or 29° 14′ 21″ northLongitude of center
91.7706° or 91° 46′ 14″ eastPopulation
354,000Elevation
3,570 metres (11,713 feet)IATA airport code
LGZOpenStreetMap ID
node 4960798737OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
10271617Wikidata ID
Q777171
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Shannan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lhoka”
- Basque: “Shannan prefektura”
- Basque: “Shannan”
- Cebuano: “Lhoka”
- Cebuano: “Shannan Diqu”
- Chinese: “Lhoka Chhī”
- Chinese: “shānnán shì”
- Chinese: “加沙”
- Chinese: “山南”
- Chinese: “山南市”
- Czech: “Lhokha”
- Danish: “Lhoka”
- Danish: “Shannan”
- Dutch: “Lhokha”
- Finnish: “Lhoka”
- Finnish: “Shannan”
- French: “Lhoka”
- French: “Lhokha”
- French: “préfecture de Shannan”
- French: “Shannan”
- French: “Ville-préfecture de Shannan”
- Gan Chinese: “山南市”
- German: “Lhoka”
- German: “Shannan”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lhoka-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “שאן-נאן”
- Hindi: “ल्होखा विभाग”
- Hindi: “शाननान विभाग”
- Hindi: “शाननान”
- Hungarian: “Lhoka”
- Hungarian: “Sannan”
- Indonesian: “Lhoka”
- Indonesian: “Shannan, Tibet”
- Italian: “Lhoka”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Shannan”
- Japanese: “ロカ”
- Japanese: “ロカ市”
- Japanese: “山南地区”
- Japanese: “山南市”
- Kikuyu: “Lhoka”
- Kikuyu: “Shannan”
- Korean: “로카 시”
- Korean: “로카”
- Korean: “산난 지구”
- Korean: “산난시”
- Literary Chinese: “山南市”
- Lithuanian: “Lokos prefektūra”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lhoka”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lhoka Chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lhoka Tē-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lhoka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shannan”
- Norwegian: “Shannan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lhoka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shannan”
- Persian: “شاننان، تبت”
- Persian: “لهوکا”
- Polish: “Lhoka”
- Polish: “Shannan”
- Portuguese: “Shannan, Tibete”
- Portuguese: “Shannan”
- Russian: “Шаньнань”
- Slovenian: “Šanan”
- Spanish: “cuna de la civilizacion tibetana”
- Spanish: “cuna de la civilización tibetana”
- Spanish: “Lhoka”
- Spanish: “Shannan”
- Spanish: “Shannán”
- Swedish: “Lhoka”
- Thai: “ชานหนาน”
- Tibetan: “ལྷོ་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Tibetan: “ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ།”
- Turkish: “Lhoka”
- Turkish: “Shannan ili”
- Turkish: “Shannan”
- Ukrainian: “Лхока”
- Ukrainian: “Шаньнань”
- Urdu: “شاننان، تبت”
- Vietnamese: “Lhoka”
- Vietnamese: “Sơn Nam, Tây Tạng”
- Vietnamese: “Sơn Nam”
- Wu Chinese: “山南市”
- Yue Chinese: “山南”
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