Gungtang Township

Gungtang,[1][2][a] or Kotang,[b] called Gongdang by China,[c][5] is a village and township in the Gyirong County in the Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet region of China.

In addition to Gungtang, the township contains three villages: Ru, Tsang (Zhang village) and Kangpo (Kangbei village).[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Tibetan: གུང་ཐང, Wylie: gung thang, THL: gung tang, ZWPY: Kungtang.[3] The alternative spelling of Kungtang is also seen English.[4]
  2. ↑ Tibetan: ཀོ་ཐང, Wylie: ko thang, THL: ko tang, ZWPY: Gotang.[3]
  3. ↑ Chinese: 贡当乡; pinyin: Gòng dāng xiāng.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Roberts, Peter Alan (2000), The Biographies of Ras-chung-pa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography, University of Oxford, p. 165
  2. ↑ Tibetmap sheet 2884, Tibet Map Institute, November 2016; Gungtang, KMAPS, University of Virginia, retrieved 14 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Xigazê Prefecture-Level City". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03. Cite error: Unknown parameter "<ref" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
  4. ↑ Strachey, Henry (1854), Physical Geography of Western Tibet, London: William Clows and Sons, p. 4 – via archive.org
  5. ↑ Townships of Jilong County, Nationanl Bureau of Stistics, China, retrieved 14 January 2023.
  6. ↑ Gongdang Township, Nationanl Bureau of Stistics, China, retrieved 14 January 2023.

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