Shangri-La, Yunnan

Shangri-La
香格里拉市 · སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Shangri-La skyline
Dukezong
Dukezong
Location of Shangri-La (red) in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (pink) within Yunnan
Location of Shangri-La (red) in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (pink) within Yunnan
Shangri-La is located in Yunnan
Shangri-La
Shangri-La
Location of the county seat in Yunnan
Coordinates (Diqing Prefecture government): 27°50′45″N 99°44′32″E / 27.84583°N 99.74222°E / 27.84583; 99.74222
CountryChina
ProvinceYunnan
Autonomous prefectureDiqing
Municipal seatGyalthang Town
Area
 • Total11,613 km2 (4,484 sq mi)
Elevation3,160 m (10,370 ft)
Population
 (2020 census)[2]
 • Total186,412
 • Density16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
674400
Area code0887
Websitexianggelila.diqing.gov.cn
Shangri-La, Yunnan
Chinese name
Chinese香格里拉
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiānggélǐlā
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingHoeng1gaak3lei5laai1
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngdiān
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingZung1din6
Tibetan name
Tibetanསེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།
Transcriptions
Wyliesems kyi nyi zla
Tibetan PinyinSemkyi'nyida

Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China, named after the mythical land depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon. It is the capital and largest city of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is bordered by the city of Lijiang to the south and Sichuan province to the northwest, north, and east.

  1. ^ "Shangri-La (Xiānggélǐlā 香格里拉), chef-lieu de la préfecture autonome tibétaine de Diqing, Yunnan (Yúnnán 云南)". channaryetfrancoisashanghai.net (in French). Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ "迪庆州第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Diqing Prefecture. 27 May 2021.