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Kardze Town

Kardze Town

Township in Sichuan, China

Kardze[2][3][lower-alpha 1] or Garzê (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས, Wylie: dkar mdzes, THL: kar dzé), called Ganzi in Chinese (Chinese: 甘孜; pinyin: Gānzī),[2] is a town and county seat in Kardze County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, China. Despite Kardze Prefecture being named after the town, the prefecture capital is Kangding, 365 km to the southeast. As of 2010, Kardze was home to 16,920 inhabitants. Kardze is an ethnic Tibetan township and is located in the historical Tibetan region of Kham. It contains the 15th century Kandze Monastery, home to over 500 Gelugpa monks.[9]

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Geography

The suspension bridge across the Yalong River

Kardze lies in the large Kardze valley at 3390 metres above sea level and is surrounded by rocky terrain and mountains.[10] The Yalong River's tributary Rongcha River passes through the town from north to south.

Notes

  1. Alternative spellings: Kandze,[4][5][6] Kanze.[7][8]

References

Citations

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    "Gānzī Zhèn (Gānzī Xiàn)". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
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    Tibet 2002: A Year Book. London: Tibet Information Network. 2003. p. 146–147. ISBN 0-9541961-5-5 – via archive.org.
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  4. [4]
    Dorje, Footprint Tibet (1999), p. 496.
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    Garri, Irina (2020), "The rise of the Five Hor States of Northern Kham. Religion and politics in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands", Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines (51): 7–8
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    Kolas, Ashild; Thowsen, Monika P. (2011). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. University of Washington Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-0-295-80410-1.
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    Smith, Warren (1996). Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-Tibetan Relations. Avalon Publishing. pp. 377–378. ISBN 978-0-8133-3155-3.
  8. [8]
    Ryavec, Karl E. (2015). A Historical Atlas of Tibet. University of Chicago Press. pp. 13, 21. ISBN 978-0-226-24394-8.
  9. [9]
    Lonely Planet, Tibet (2005), p. 254; Lonely Planet, Tibet (2011), p. 225
  10. [10]
    "Ganzi". Chinadiscover.net. Retrieved December 11, 2009.

Sources

  • Dorje, Gyurme (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.). Bath: Footprint Handbooks. ISBN 0-8442-2190-2, ISBN 1-900949-33-4 – via archive.org.
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    • Mayhew, Bradley; Kohn, Michael; Mccrohan, Daniel; Bellezza, John Vincent (2011). Tibet. Lonely Planet – via archive.org.
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