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Mount Gongga Northwest Ridge Orthographic projection centred over Gongga Shan. Mount Gongga (simplified Chinese: 贡嘎山; traditional Chinese: 貢嘎山; pinyin: Gònggá Shān), also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan: མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ་, Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo) and colloquially as "The King of Sichuan Mountains", is the ...
Kardze [2] [3] [a] or Garzê (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས, Wylie: dkar mdzes, THL: kar dzé), called Ganzi in Chinese (Chinese: 甘孜; pinyin: Gānzī), [2] is a town and county seat in Kardze County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, China.
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, [a] often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, [b] is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the north and northwest. [3] The prefecture's area is 151,078 square kilometres (58,332 sq mi).
Garzê County or Kardze County [2] (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།, Wylie: dkar mdzes rdzong), called Ganzi County in Chinese (Chinese: 甘孜县; pinyin: Gānzī xiàn), is one of the 18 subdivisions of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in northwestern Sichuan province, China.
The tallest peak of the range, the Gongga Shan (Minya Konka), measures 7,556 meters in height. It is located in the southern part of the range. [3] To the east and south of the Gongga Shan, the Daxue Mountains are adjacent to the smaller Daxiangling and Xiaoxiangling ranges, which, however, are usually considered by cartographers as separate ...
Luding County (simplified Chinese: 泸定县; traditional Chinese: 瀘定縣; pinyin: Lúdìng Xiàn), also known via its Tibetan name as Chagsam or Jagsam (Tibetan: ལྕགས་ཟམ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: lcags zam rdzong, ZYPY: Jagsam Zong), is a county located in the southeast of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province, China. [1]
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Gaocheng Town (Tibetan: མཐོ་གྲོང་གྲོང་རྡལ།, Wylie: mtho grong grong rdal; Chinese: 高城镇; pinyin: Gāochéng Zhèn [1]), also known as Litang (Lithang, Tibetan: ལི་ཐང།, Wylie: li thang), is the administrative centre of Litang County in the southwest of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province of China.