Kardze Town
Kardze | |
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Township | |
Chinese transcription(s) | |
• Chinese characters | |
• Pinyin | Gānzī |
Tibetan transcription(s) | |
• Tibetan | དཀར་མཛེས་ |
• Wylie transliteration | dkar mdzes |
![]() View of Kardze from the north | |
Coordinates: 31°37′38″N 99°59′19″E / 31.6273°N 99.9887°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Sichuan |
Prefecture | Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture |
County | Kardze County |
Population (2010)[1] | 16,920 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
Kardze[2][3][a]
or Garzê (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས, Wylie: dkar mdzes, THL: kar dzé), called Ganzi in Chinese (Chinese:
Geography
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Ganzi-afueras-d10.jpg/220px-Ganzi-afueras-d10.jpg)
Kardze lies in the large Kardze valley at 3390 metres above sea level and is surrounded by rocky terrain and mountains.[10] The Yalong River's tributary Rongcha River passes through the town from north to south.
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[edit]References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ "Gānzī Zhèn (Gānzī Xiàn)". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ a b Tibet 2002: A Year Book. London: Tibet Information Network. 2003. p. 146–147. ISBN 0-9541961-5-5 – via archive.org.
- ^
- East Asia: Seventh Report of Session 2005-06, Volume 2. Great Britain, Parliament / The Stationery Office. 2006. p. 171. ISBN 9780215030504.
- Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2007, February 2008, 110-2 Report. United States. Congress. 2008. p. 157.
- Hannah Beech/TAWU (14 November 2011). "Burning desire for freedom". TIME. pp. 47–51 – via archive.org.
- ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (1999), p. 496.
- ^ Garri, Irina (2020), "The rise of the Five Hor States of Northern Kham. Religion and politics in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands", Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines (51): 7–8
- ^ Kolas, Ashild; Thowsen, Monika P. (2011). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. University of Washington Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-0-295-80410-1.
- ^ Smith, Warren (1996). Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-Tibetan Relations. Avalon Publishing. pp. 377–378. ISBN 978-0-8133-3155-3.
- ^ Ryavec, Karl E. (2015). A Historical Atlas of Tibet. University of Chicago Press. pp. 13, 21. ISBN 978-0-226-24394-8.
- ^ Lonely Planet, Tibet (2005), p. 254; Lonely Planet, Tibet (2011), p. 225
- ^ "Ganzi". Chinadiscover.net. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
Sources
[edit]- Dorje, Gyurme (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.). Bath: Footprint Handbooks. ISBN 0-8442-2190-2, ISBN 1-900949-33-4 – via archive.org.
- Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2011). China's Ancient Tea Horse Road. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B005DQV7Q2
- Leffman, David, et al. (2005). The Rough Guide to China. 4th Edition. Rough Guides, New York, London, Delhi. ISBN 978-1-84353-479-2.
- Mayhew, Bradley; Kohn, Michael (2011). Tibet. Lonely Planet. ISBN 1-74059-523-8.
- Mayhew, Bradley; Kohn, Michael; Mccrohan, Daniel; Bellezza, John Vincent (2011). Tibet. Lonely Planet – via archive.org.
External links
[edit]- Hudong Encyclopedia (in Chinese)