Tsethang
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 58,800 residents
- Description: subdistrict in Nedong county, Shannan, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Chetang”, “Chethang”, “Nedong”, “Tse-tang”, “Tsetang”, “Tsetang Subdistrict”, “Tsethang:Zedang”, “Zedang”, “Zetang”, “Zêtang”, and “Zêtang Subdistrict”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Changzhug.
Changzhug
Buddhist temple
Photo: Esiymbro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tradruk Temple in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say it predates that temple. Tradruk Temple is located in Nêdong County of Lhoka in the Tibet Autonomous Region, about seven kilometres south of the county seat, Tsetang. Changzhug is situated 4 km south of Tsethang.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Changzhug.
Tsethang
- Categories: subdistrict in China and locality
- Location: Shannan, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.2289° or 29° 13′ 44″ northLongitude
91.7614° or 91° 45′ 41″ eastPopulation
58,800Elevation
3,560 metres (11,680 feet)Open location code
7MXH6QH6+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3006113559OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1279498Wikidata ID
Q247599
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Tsethang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تانغتسي”
- Bengali: “সেনতাং”
- Chinese: “zédāng jiēdào”
- Chinese: “泽当”
- Chinese: “泽当街道”
- Chinese: “泽当镇”
- Czech: “Cethang”
- Danish: “Tsetang”
- Dutch: “Tsetang”
- Finnish: “Tsetang”
- French: “Tsetang”
- Gan Chinese: “泽当镇”
- German: “Zêtang”
- Greek: “Τσετάνγκ”
- Gujarati: “સેટંગ”
- Hebrew: “צטאנג”
- Hindi: “त्सेथंग”
- Indonesian: “Tsetang”
- Italian: “Tsetang”
- Japanese: “ザダン”
- Kannada: “ಸೆಟಾಂಗ್”
- Korean: “세탕”
- Latvian: “Tsetanga”
- Lithuanian: “Dzetangas”
- Lithuanian: “Tsetangas”
- Malay: “Tsetang”
- Malay: “Zêtang”
- Marathi: “त्सटांग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsetang”
- Norwegian: “Tsetang”
- Persian: “تسیتانگ”
- Polish: “Tsetang”
- Russian: “Тсетанг”
- Sinhala: “ට්සෙටාන්ග්”
- Slovenian: “Cetang”
- Slovenian: “Tsetang”
- Swedish: “Tsetang”
- Tamil: “சேடங்”
- Telugu: “సేటంగ్”
- Thai: “เซทัง”
- Tibetan: “རྩེ་ཐང་”
- Tibetan: “རྩེད་ཐང་ཁྲོམ་ལམ་།”
- Tibetan: “རྩེད་ཐང”
- Turkish: “Tsetang”
- Ukrainian: “Тсетанг”
- Urdu: “تسیتانج”
- Vietnamese: “Trạch Đáng”
- Welsh: “Tsetang”
- Wu Chinese: “泽当镇”
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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 “Tsethang”. Photo: Ernst Schäfer, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.