Tingri
Gangga, or Tingri, is a town in Tingri County, in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is often used as a base by mountain climbers preparing to ascend Mount Everest or Cho Oyu.
- Town
- …lies at an elevation of around 4,350 metres (14,270 feet)
- …was formerly known as “定日”
- Description: town in Tingri, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as“Dingri”“Ganga”“Gangga”“Gangga town”“Ganggar”“Gangkar”“Old Tingri”“Ting-jih”“Ting-jih-tsung”“Tingri Dzong”“Tingri Town”“老定日”
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Latitude
28.5843° or 28° 35′ 3″ north
Longitude
86.6097° or 86° 36′ 35″ east
Open location code
7MW8HJM5+MV
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OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Tingri” goes by many names.
تينغريArabic
Tingri TownAsturian
GanggaCebuano
Gangga (munisipyo sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, lat 28,57, long 86,61)Cebuano
སྒང་དཀརTibetan
སྒང་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལTibetan
སྒང་དགའTibetan
སྒང་དགའ་གྲོང་རྡལ།Tibetan
تینگریUrdu
تینگری (قصبہ)Urdu
岗嘎镇Wu Chinese
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