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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 highest mountain in Sichuan ...
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.
Climate data for Danba, elevation 1,950 m (6,400 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
The county was the site of the epicentre and one of the areas most severely hit by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, also known as the Wenchuan earthquake. Sichuan: Guangyuan: Jianmen Pass Scenic Area: 2015 Jianmen Pass is a mountain pass located southwest of the city of Guangyuan in Sichuan province. It has also been called "Jianmenguan Pass".
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).
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 ...
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Sichuan: Mount Everest: Tibet: 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) [4] The highest peak in the world. Located in Nepal and China . [1] [2] Geladaindong Peak: Qinghai: 6,621 metres (21,722 ft) Mount Genyen: Sichuan: 6,204 metres (20,354 ft) Mount Gongga: Sichuan: 7,556 metres (24,790 ft) The highest peak in Sichuan and the easternmost 7,000 m (23,000 ft ...