Ziketan Town

Zigortang Town
子科滩镇 · ལ་ཟེ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
Ziketan, Zigongtang
Zigortang is located in Qinghai
Zigortang
Zigortang
Location within Qinghai
Coordinates: 35°35′19″N 99°59′12″E / 35.58861°N 99.98667°E / 35.58861; 99.98667
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
PrefectureHainan
CountyXinghai
Established1953
Area
(approximate)
 • Total3,000 km2 (1,158 sq mi)
Elevation
3,193 m (10,476 ft)
Population
 • Total10,000
 • Density3.3/km2 (8.6/sq mi)
Ethnicity
 • Tibetan80%
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard Time)
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Zigortang Town (Tibetan: རྩི་གོར་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ།), Zigongtang Town (རྩི་ཀོང་ཐང་), or Ziketan Town (Chinese: 子科滩镇) is a farming town in Xinghai County of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, People's Republic of China. Zigortang town covers approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and has a population of 10,000.[1]

Zigortang is 167 kilometres (104 mi) southwest of the Qinghai provincial capital of Xining. Zigortang lies approximately 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) west of Beijing.[2]

  1. ^ "兴海县—青海省—中国—行政区划网站". Xzqh.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  2. ^ "China Distance Calculator, Distance Between Cities, Distance Chart". Distancecalculator.globefeed.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.