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Kangding

Kangding
康定市 · དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
County-level city
Kangding is located in Sichuan
Kangding
Kangding
Location in Sichuan
Coordinates: 30°03′19″N 101°57′53″E / 30.05528°N 101.96472°E / 30.05528; 101.96472Coordinates: 30°03′19″N 101°57′53″E / 30.05528°N 101.96472°E / 30.05528; 101.96472
Country China
Province Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Elevation 2,560 m (8,400 ft)
Population
 • Major Nationalities Han
Tibetan
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code 610000
Website www.kangding.gov.cn
Kangding/Dardo
Chinese name
Chinese 康定
Postal Kangting
Tibetan name
Tibetan དར་མདོ།
Lucheng/Dartsedo
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 炉城
Traditional Chinese 爐城
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 打箭炉
Traditional Chinese 打箭爐
Postal Tatsienlu
Tibetan name
Tibetan དར་རྩེ་མདོ།

Kangding (Chinese and English) or Dardo (Tibetan), is a city and the location of the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding's urban center has around 100,000 inhabitants.

Kangding (Chinese: 康定; pinyin: Kāngdìng; Wade–Giles: K'ang1-ting4) is also known officially in Tibetan as Dardo (Tibetan: དར་མདོ།, Wylie: dar mdo, ZYPY: Dardo) also known as Dartsedo (Tibetan: དར་རྩེ་མདོ།, Wylie: dar-rtse-mdo, ZYPY: Darzêdo).

Historically, the urban center was known as Tachienlu or Tatsienlu (simplified Chinese: 打箭炉; traditional Chinese: 打箭爐; pinyin: Dǎjiànlú) from the Chinese transliteration of the Tibetan name Dartsedo until it was simplified as Lucheng (simplified Chinese: 炉城; traditional Chinese: 爐城; pinyin: Lúchéng) which is the administrative seat of Kangding.


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