Dêqên (Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་, Wylie: déchen), or Deqing in Chinese (simplified Chinese: 德庆; traditional Chinese: 德慶; pinyin: Déqìng), is a town and the seat of Dagzê District, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is near Ganden Monastery, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of central Lhasa.[1]
Dêqên
བདེ་ཆེན་ · 德庆镇 | |
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Coordinates (Dêqên government): 29°40′09″N 91°22′00″E / 29.6692°N 91.3667°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Tibet Autonomous Region |
Prefecture-level city | Lhasa |
District | Dagzê |
Nearby settlements (distance) | Baga 15.9 mi (26 km) Bayizhen 8.2 mi (13 km) |
Population | |
• Major Nationalities | Tibetan |
• Regional dialect | Tibetan language |
Time zone | UTC 8 (CST) |
Footnotes
edit- ^ Buckley, Michael and Strauss, Robert. Tibet: a travel survival kit, p. 150. (1986) Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 0-908086-88-1.