Batang, Sichuan

Batang Town
Town
Xiaqiong Town
Tibetan transcription(s)
• Tibetan	བྱ་ཁྱུང་ཀྲེན།
• Wylie	bya khyung kren
Chinese transcription(s)
• Chinese	夏邛镇
• Pinyin	Xiàqióng Zhèn
Bistro in Batang
Batang Town
Coordinates: 30°01′N 99°07′E / 30.017°N 99.117°E / 30.017; 99.117
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Prefecture	Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
County	Batang County
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Batang Town (Tibetan: འབའ་ཐང; Chinese: 巴塘; pinyin: Bātáng), officially Xiaqiong Town (Tibetan: བྱ་ཁྱུང་ཀྲེན།, Wylie: bya khyung kren; Chinese: 夏邛镇; pinyin: Xiàqióng Zhèn), is a town in Batang County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the China on the main route between Chengdu and Lhasa, Tibet, and just east of the Jinsha ('Golden Sands') River, or Upper Yangtze River. It is at an elevation of 2,700 metres (8,900 feet).^[1]