Shiquanhe
狮泉河镇 · སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | |
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Sênggêzangbo | |
Coordinates (Shiquanhe town government): 32°29′35″N 80°06′06″E / 32.4930°N 80.1017°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Region | Tibet Autonomous Region |
Prefecture | Ngari |
County | Gar |
Elevation | 4,255 m (13,960 ft) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
Postal code | 859000 |
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 狮泉河 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 獅泉河 | ||||||
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Tibetan | སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ་གྲོང་རྡལ།་ | ||||||
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Shiquanhe (Chinese: 狮泉河镇; lit. 'Lion Spring River Town'), known in Tibetan as Sênggêkanbab (Tibetan: སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ་, Wylie: seng ge kha 'bab, THL: seng gé kha bap) or Sênggêzangbo, is the main town and administrative seat of Ngari Prefecture,[1] Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Shiquanhe is located on the bank of Sênggê Zangbo, the source stream of the Indus River, close to its confluence with the Gartang River.