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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: Tingri Xian town, in Tibetan autonomous region
- Also known as: “Dingri Xian”, “Hsieh-ka-erh”, “Hsieh-ka-erh-tsung”, “Hsieh-ko-erh”, “Shekar Dzong”, “Ting-jih”, “Tingri”, “Xegar”, “Xêgar”, “Xêgar Chongdä”, “Xiega’er”, “协格尔”, and “定日”
Shelkar
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.6627° or 28° 39′ 46″ northLongitude
87.1216° or 87° 7′ 18″ eastElevation
4,476 metres (14,685 feet)Open location code
7MW9M47C+3MOpenStreetMap ID
node 3017559627OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Shelkar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيلكار”
- Asturian: “Shelkar”
- Bengali: “শেলকর”
- Catalan: “Shelkar”
- Catalan: “Xegar”
- Chinese: “xiégéěr zhèn”
- Chinese: “协嘎尔”
- Chinese: “协格尔镇”
- Chinese: “定日县”
- Danish: “Shelkar”
- Dutch: “Shelkar”
- Dutch: “Xegar”
- Finnish: “Shelkar”
- French: “Shékar”
- French: “Sheldkar”
- French: “Shelkar”
- French: “Shélkar”
- French: “Xegar”
- Gan Chinese: “协格尔镇”
- German: “Shelkar”
- German: “Xegar”
- German: “Xiege’er”
- Greek: “Σελκάρ”
- Gujarati: “શેલ્કર”
- Hindi: “शेलकर”
- Indonesian: “Shelkar”
- Italian: “Shelkar”
- Italian: “Xegar”
- Japanese: “シェーカル”
- Kannada: “ಶೇಲ್ಕರ್”
- Korean: “셸카르”
- Latvian: “Šelkara”
- Lithuanian: “Šelkaras”
- Malay: “Shelkar”
- Marathi: “शेल्कर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shelkar”
- Persian: “شلکار”
- Polish: “Shelkar”
- Polish: “Xegar”
- Portuguese: “Shelkar”
- Portuguese: “Xegar”
- Russian: “Шелкар”
- Sinhala: “ශෙල්කාර්”
- Spanish: “Shelkar”
- Spanish: “Xegar”
- Swedish: “Xêgar”
- Tamil: “ஷெல்கர்”
- Telugu: “షెల్కర్”
- Thai: “เชล์คาร์”
- Tibetan: “Xêgar”
- Tibetan: “ཤེལ་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Tibetan: “ཤེལ་དཀར།”
- Turkish: “Shelkar”
- Ukrainian: “Шелкар”
- Urdu: “شیلکار”
- Vietnamese: “Hiệp Cách Nhĩ”
- Welsh: “Shelkar”
- Wu Chinese: “协格尔镇”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shelkar”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.