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Xiangcheng

Xiangcheng, is in Sichuan Province in south-west . It also belongs to the ancient Tibetan province of Kham. Being a necessary overnight-stop on the 'Backdoor'-route to , the town is a pleasant place to linger or to serve as starting point for excursions into the surrounding mountain areas.
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  • Type: City with 12,200 residents
  • Description: county in Garze, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Hsiang-ch’eng Hsien”, “Qagchêng”, “Qagchêng Xian”, “Xiangcheng County”, and “Xiangcheng County, Sichuan”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shambala.

Town
is a town and the seat of Xiangcheng County, southwestern , western province of southwest China. Before 2005, it was called Samphel.

Xiangcheng

Latitude
28.9334° or 28° 56′ 0″ north
Longitude
99.8012° or 99° 48′ 4″ east
Population
12,200
Elevation
4,261 metres (13,980 feet)
Open location code
7MWXWRM2+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5105437121
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1279737
Wiki­data ID
Q1200101
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Xiangcheng” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Xiangcheng Xian”
  • Chinese: “Hiong-siâⁿ-koān”
  • Chinese: “Xiāngchéng Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “定鄉縣”
  • Chinese: “乡城”
  • Chinese: “乡城县”
  • Chinese: “鄉城縣”
  • Dutch: “Qagchêng”
  • French: “Comte de Xiangcheng”
  • French: “Comté de xiangcheng”
  • French: “xian de Xiangcheng”
  • French: “Xian de Xiangcheng”
  • French: “Xiangcheng”
  • Gan Chinese: “乡城县”
  • German: “Chathreng”
  • German: “Qagchêng”
  • Hebrew: “שיאנגצ’נג (סצ’ואן)”
  • Hebrew: “שיאנגצ’נג”
  • Italian: “Contea di Xiangcheng”
  • Japanese: “郷城県”
  • Korean: “샹청현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hiong-siâⁿ-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qagchêng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xiangcheng”
  • Norwegian: “Xiangcheng”
  • Persian: “شهرستان شیانگچنگ”
  • Romanian: “Districtul Xiangcheng, Sichuan”
  • Romanian: “Districtul Xiangcheng”
  • Russian: “Чаченг”
  • Spanish: “Xiangcheng”
  • Swedish: “Xiangcheng, Garzê”
  • Swedish: “Xiangcheng”
  • Tibetan: “ཆ་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཆ་འཕྲེང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་།”
  • Vietnamese: “Hương Thành, Garzê”
  • Vietnamese: “Hương Thành”
  • Wu Chinese: “乡城县”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Xiangcheng”. Photo: fsyzh, CC BY 3.0.