Coqên Town

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Coqên
Town
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Coqên
Location within Tibet
Coordinates: 31°1′8″N85°9′30″E / 31.01889°N 85.15833°E / 31.01889; 85.15833
Country China
Region Tibet
Prefecture Ngari Prefecture
County Coqên County
Elevation 4,718 m (15,479 ft)
Population
 •  Major Nationalities Tibetan
 •  Regional dialect Tibetan language
Time zone +8

Coqen is a town and seat of Coqên County in Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies at an altitude of 4,718 metres (15,482 feet). It is on the main route between Lhasa and Kashgar, northwest of Lhaze. [1] Lakes not too far away include Zhari Nanmu Lake, Dawa Lake and Taruo Lake.

Coqên County County in Tibet Autonomous Region, Peoples Republic of China

Coqên County is a county in the Ngari Prefecture, in the west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is the located in the southeast of Ngari Prefecture.

Ngari Prefecture Prefecture in Tibet, Peoples Republic of China

Ngari Prefecture is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Its capital is Gar County. Its administrative centre is the town of Burang Town. The largest settlement is Shiquanhe. Ngari Prefecture includes part of the Aksai Chin area, a disputed region claimed by India but over which China exercises administrative control.

Tibet Autonomous Region Autonomous region

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region in southwest China. It was formally established in 1965 to replace the Tibet Area, an administrative division the People's Republic of China (PRC) took over from the Republic of China (ROC), about five years after the dismissal of the Kashag by the PRC following the 1959 Tibetan uprising, and about 13 years after Tibet's incorporation into the PRC in 1951.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Buckley,Michael and Strauss, Robert. Tibet: a travel survival kit, p. 244. (1986) Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia. ISBN   0-908086-88-1.

See also

Coordinates: 31°1′8″N85°9′30″E / 31.01889°N 85.15833°E / 31.01889; 85.15833

Geographic coordinate system Coordinate system

A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.


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