Xiahe
Xiahe County is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the west. The name, which literally means "Xia River", refers to the Daxia River which runs through the county.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 25,900 residents
- Description: county in Gannan, Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Bsang Chu”, “Hsia-ho Hsien”, “Laboleng”, “Labrang”, “Sangchu”, “Sangqu”, “Sangqu County”, “Xiahe County”, “Xiàhé Gānnán Jīchǎng”, “xiahe xian”, “Xiahe Xian”, “xiahexian”, and “拉卜楞镇”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Labrang Monastery.
Labrang Monastery
Buddhist temple
Labrang Monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Lama Tsongkhapa. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Labrang.
Xiahe
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Gannan, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.1984° or 35° 11′ 54″ northLongitude
102.5196° or 102° 31′ 11″ eastPopulation
25,900Elevation
3,339 metres (10,955 feet)IATA airport code
GXHOpen location code
8P745GX9+9VOpenStreetMap ID
node 683773654OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Xiahe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة شياهي”
- Bengali: “শিয়াহে কাউন্টি”
- Cebuano: “Xiahe County”
- Chinese: “Sangqu-koān”
- Chinese: “Xiàhé”
- Chinese: “夏河”
- Chinese: “夏河县”
- Chinese: “夏河縣”
- Danish: “Xiahe County”
- Dutch: “Xiahe”
- Finnish: “Xiahen kunta”
- French: “Comte de Xiahe”
- French: “Comté de Xiahe”
- French: “Xiahe”
- French: “xian de Xiahe”
- French: “Xian de Xiahe”
- Gan Chinese: “夏河县”
- German: “Sangchu”
- German: “Xiahe”
- Greek: “Ξιάχε”
- Gujarati: “ઝિઆહે કાઉન્ટી”
- Hindi: “जिआहे काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Xiahe County”
- Italian: “Contea di Xiahe”
- Japanese: “卜楞設治局”
- Japanese: “夏河県”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿಯಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “샤허”
- Korean: “샤허현”
- Latvian: “Siače apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Siachės sritis”
- Malay: “Xiahe County”
- Marathi: “झिएहा काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sangqu-koān”
- Mirandese: “Xiahe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xiahe”
- Norwegian: “Xiahe”
- Persian: “شهرستان شیاهه”
- Polish: “Xiahe”
- Portuguese: “Xiahe”
- Russian: “Сяхэ”
- Sinhala: “ක්සියාහි පළාත”
- Spanish: “Xiahe”
- Swedish: “Xiahe”
- Tamil: “க்ஸிகே கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “జియాహే కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เซียะเหอ”
- Tibetan: “བསུང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “ཞཱ་ཧོ་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “སྐ་ཁོག”
- Turkish: “Xiahe County”
- Ukrainian: “повіт Сяхе”
- Ukrainian: “Сяхе”
- Urdu: “زیاحی کاؤنٹی”
- Urdu: “شیاہے کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Hạ Hà Huyện”
- Vietnamese: “Hạ Hà”
- Wu Chinese: “夏河县”
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