Kangding
Kangding (Chinese: 康定), also called Tachienlu and Dartsedo (Chinese: 打箭炉; Tibetan: དར་རྩེ་མདོ།), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is on the bank of the Dadu River and has been considered the historical border between the Kham region of Tibet and the Sichuan region. Kangding's urban center is called Lucheng, which has around 134,000 inhabitants.
Kangding
康定市 · དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། Dardo, Tachienlu, Dartsedo | |
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Kangding from above | |
Location of Kangding City (red) within Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
Kangding Location of the city center in Sichuan Kangding Kangding (China) | |
| Coordinates (Kangding government): 29°59′55″N 101°57′25″E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| Municipal seat | Lucheng Subdistrict |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11,486 km2 (4,435 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,560 m (8,400 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 126,785 |
| • Density | 11/km2 (29/sq mi) |
| • Major ethnic groups | Han Tibetan |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 610000 |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese | 康定 | ||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Kāngdìng | ||||||||
| Postal | Kangting | ||||||||
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| Dartsedo (Darzêdo) | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 打箭炉 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 打箭爐 | ||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dǎjiànlú | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | དར་རྩེ་མདོ། | ||||||||
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