Shelkar
Shelkar or Shekar, also called New Tingri, is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.
- Town
- …lies at an elevation of around 4,330 metres (14,210 feet)
- Description: town in Tingri county, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as“Dingri Xian”“Hsieh-ka-erh”“Hsieh-ka-erh-tsung”“Hsieh-ko-erh”“New Tingri”“Shekar Dzong”“Ting-jih”“Tingri”“Xêgar”“Xêgar Chongdai”“Xiega’er”“Xiege’er”“Xieger”“Xieka’er”“协格尔”“定日”
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Latitude
28.6627° or 28° 39′ 46″ north
Longitude
87.1216° or 87° 7′ 18″ east
Open location code
7MW9M47C+3M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Shelkar” goes by many names.
شيلكارArabic
ShelkarAsturian
শেলকরBengali
ShelkarCatalan
XegarCatalan
xiégéěr zhènChinese
协嘎尔Chinese
协格尔镇Chinese
协格尔镇Gan Chinese
ΣελκάρGreek
શેલ્કરGujarati
शेलकरHindi
ShelkarIndonesian
ShelkarItalian
XegarItalian
シェーカルJapanese
ಶೇಲ್ಕರ್Kannada
셸카르Korean
ŠelkaraLatvian
ŠelkarasLithuanian
ShelkarMalay
शेल्करMarathi
ShelkarNorwegian Bokmål
شلکارPersian
ShelkarPolish
ཤེལ་དཀར།Tibetan
ShelkarTurkish
ШелкарUkrainian
شیلکارUrdu
Hiệp Cách NhĩVietnamese
ShelkarWelsh
协格尔镇Wu Chinese
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