Tanggulashan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dangla, Tanggula
Tanggulashan (, ), or Dangla Town, is a town in the southwest of Qinghai province, China. It forms the southern exclave of the county-level city of Golmud, in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, partially administrated by Amdo County, Tibet Autonomous Region since 1963 and still officially a territory of Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai under trust administration of Golmud, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai. Before the local administrative reform of 2005, it was a township (). It is the only place in China simultaneously under jurisdiction of three prefectures.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town of China
- Official name
- 唐古拉山镇
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Golmud
- Population
- 1605
- Area
- 47540.08
- Elevation
- 4535
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Image
- 格尔木 唐古拉山镇与109国道沱沱河桥 01.jpg
- Dialing code
- 979
Show 1 more fact
- Commons category
- Tanggulashan Town
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Geography
- Climate
- Demographics
- Economy
- Transportation
- References
Tanggulashan (, ), or Dangla Town, is a town in the southwest of Qinghai province, China. It forms the southern exclave of the county-level city of Golmud, in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, partially administrated by Amdo County, Tibet Autonomous Region since 1963 and still officially a territory of Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai under trust administration of Golmud, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai. Before the local administrative reform of 2005, it was a township (). It is the only place in China simultaneously under jurisdiction of three prefectures.
The town spans an area of approximately , and has a population of 1,750 as of 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tanggulashan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations