Deqen is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies at an altitude of 3712 metres (12,181 feet). It lies approximately 25 kilometres by road east of Lhasa.
Population: 62,400
Latitude: 29° 57' 42.41" N
Longitude: 90° 43' 7.50" E
The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (Chinese: 南水北调工程; pinyin: Nánshuǐ Běidiào Gōngchéng) is a multi-decade infrastructure mega-project in the People's Republic of China.
Drigung Thil Monastery (Wylie: 'bri gung mthil 'og min byang chub gling) is a monastery in Maizhokunggar County, Lhasa, Tibet founded in 1179. Traditionally it has been the main seat of the Drikung Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In its early y…
Doilungdêqên is a county north-west of the main center of Lhasa, Tibet.
Yangbajain (also spelled Yangbajing) is a town approximately 87 kilometers (54 mi) north-west of Lhasa, halfway to Damxung in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The town lies just south of the Nyainqêntanglha Mountains, in an upland lush green va…
The Yangbajing Tunnel is the longest tunnel of some 3,345-metres long of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway which links Xining with Lhasa across the high Tibetan Plateau of north-east China. It is 4,264 metres above sea level and located 80 kilometres NW of …
The 2008 Damxung earthquake hit Damxung County, Xizang (Tibet), west of Lhasa, in the People's Republic of China around 16:30 China Standard Time on October 6, 2008. The Chinese state media reported that the earthquake caused 10 deaths as of October…
Marqu is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Gariqiong is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
