Kangding

Also known as Dartsedo, Tachienlu

Kangding (), also known as Dartsedo (), 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 Zheduo 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.

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Settlement.name: Kangding
Settlement.other_name: Dartsedo, Tachienlu
Settlement.settlement_type: County-level city
Settlement.image_skyline: Kangding from above.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Kangding from above
Settlement.image_map: Location of Kangding within Sichuan (China).png
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Kangding City (red) within Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Settlement.pushpin_map: Sichuan#China
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of the city center in Sichuan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: left
Settlement.coor_pinpoint: Kangding government
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Autonomous prefecture
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Sichuan
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Garzê
Settlement.seat: Lucheng Subdistrict

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Official website

康定市人民政府

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Wikidata facts

Official name: དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Population: 126785
Area: 11594.45
Elevation: 2560
Official website: www.kangding.gov.cn
Image: Kangding from above.jpg
Dialing code: 836
Licence plate code: 川V

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Commons category: Kangding
postal code: 626000
Commons gallery: 康定

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==Names== Historically, the urban center was known in Chinese as Dajianlu (, also transliterated Tachienlu or Tatsienlu) from the Chinese transliteration of the Tibetan name Dartsedo or Darzêdo.