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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).
Dzongsar Monastery (Tibetan: རྫོང་གསར་དགོན།, Wylie: rdzong gsar dgon) is a Buddhist monastery in Dêgê County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China, southeast of the town of Derge and east of Palpung Monastery. Historically it lay in the Kham region of Tibet. It was founded in 746, destroyed ...
Babang (Tibetan: Palpung; Chinese: 八邦乡; pinyin: Bābāng Xiāng) is a rural Tibetan township in Dêgê County, Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan, China. [1] The township is primarily concentrated around the Pal Chu (Chinese: 白曲; pinyin: Bái Qū) river in the western reaches of the Chola Mountains on the east side of the Jinsha River. [2]
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.
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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]