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.
- Type: Town
- 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”, “སྒང་དཀར”, “སྒང་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ”, “སྒང་དགའ”, and “老定日”
Tingri
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.5843° or 28° 35′ 3″ north
Longitude
86.6097° or 86° 36′ 35″ east
Elevation
4,348 metres (14,265 feet)
Open location code
7MW8HJM5+MV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Tingri” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تينغري”
- Asturian: “Tingri Town”
- Cebuano: “Gangga (munisipyo sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, lat 28,57, long 86,61)”
- Cebuano: “Gangga”
- Chinese: “定日”
- Chinese: “岗嘎”
- Chinese: “岗嘎镇”
- French: “Tingri”
- Gan Chinese: “岗嘎镇”
- German: “Ganggar”
- German: “Tingri”
- Malay: “Tingri”
- Persian: “تینگری”
- Russian: “Шегар”
- Spanish: “Gangga”
- Swedish: “Gangga”
- Tibetan: “Tingri”
- Tibetan: “སྒང་དགའ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Urdu: “تینگری (قصبہ)”
- Urdu: “تینگری”
- Wu Chinese: “岗嘎镇”
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