Tsaparang
Tsaparang was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge in the Garuda Valley, through which the upper Sutlej River flows, in Ngari Prefecture near the border of Ladakh.Photo: Zhangmoon618, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Zhangmoon618, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: capital of the ancient kingdom Guge in Zanda County, Ngari, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Site of Guge Kingdom”, “Site of the Guge Kingdom”, “Zhaburang”, and “古格王朝”
Photo: Pseudois, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tsaparang
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, cultural heritage of China, tourism, ruins, and historic site
- Location: Ngari, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.46498° or 31° 27′ 54″ northLongitude
79.66942° or 79° 40′ 10″ eastOpen location code
8J3XFM79+XQOpenStreetMap ID
way 148107487OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q2658740
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Wu Chinese—“Tsaparang” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Tsaparang”
- Chinese: “古格王国遗址”
- Chinese: “古格王國遺址”
- Chinese: “古格王朝;札布让”
- Chinese: “札布让”
- Chinese: “札布讓”
- Dutch: “Tsaparang”
- French: “Tsaparang”
- German: “Tsaparang”
- German: “Zhaburang”
- Irish: “Tsaparang”
- Italian: “Tsaparang”
- Japanese: “ツァパラン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsaparang”
- Norwegian: “Tsaparang”
- Polish: “Tsaparang”
- Portuguese: “Chaparangue”
- Portuguese: “Tsaparang”
- Russian: “Цапаранг”
- Spanish: “Tsaparang”
- Tibetan: “གུ་གེ་རྒྱལ་མཁར”
- Tibetan: “གུ་གེ་རྒྱལ་རབས་ཀྱི་མཁར་ཤུལ”
- Tibetan: “གུ་གེའི་མཁར་ཤུལ”
- Tibetan: “ར་ལ་མཁར་དམར”
- Ukrainian: “Цапаранґ”
- Wu Chinese: “古格王国遗址”
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Highlights include Charnel Cave and Zanda military support base.
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