Dêqên
| བདེ་ ཆེན་ བོད་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ ཁུལ ། 迪庆 藏族 自治州 Dêqên |
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| Coordinates | 27 ° 50 ′ N , 99 ° 36 ′ E | ||
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| Country | People's Republic of China | ||
| Yunnan | |||
| region | Southwest China | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-YN | ||
| surface | 23,186 km² | ||
| Residents | 408,000 (2015) | ||
| density | 17.6 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | September 11, 1956 | ||
| Post Code | 674400 | ||
| Website | www.diqing.gov.cn | ||
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| status | Autonomous District | ||
| Time zone | China Standard Time (CST) UTC +8 |
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 Old town of Shangri-La
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Tibetan script :
བདེ་ ཆེན་ བོད་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ ཁུལ་
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Wylie transliteration : bde chen bod rigs rank skyong khul
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
tetɕẽ ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Dêqên
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THDL transcription : Dechen
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Traditional :
迪慶 藏族 自治州
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Simplified :
迪庆 藏族 自治州
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Pinyin : Díqìng Zàngzú zìzhìzhōu
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The Dêqên Autonomous District (Chinese: Diqing , Tibetan བདེ་ ཆེན་ བོད་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ ཁུལ །, Chinese 迪庆 藏族 自治州 ) is located in the northwest of the Chinese province of Yunnan and is part of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham. Dêqên has an area of 23,870 km² and around 410,000 inhabitants (end of 2016).
Administrative structure
The autonomous district is made up of a district-free city, a district and an autonomous district. These are:
- City of Shangri-La (香格里拉 市), 11,613 km², 130,000 inhabitants, seat of government: Jiantang Municipality (建 塘镇), center, seat of the district government, emerged from the former Zhongdian County (Tib. Gyalthang);
- Dêqên district (德钦 县), 7,596 km², 60,000 inhabitants, capital: Shengping municipality (升平 镇);
- Autonomous district Weixi der Lisu (维西 傈 僳 族 自治县), 4,661 km², 140,000 inhabitants, main town: Baohe (保 和 镇).
Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)
In the 2000 census, Dêqên had 353,518 inhabitants (population density: 14.81 inh / km²).
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Tibetans | 117.099 | 33.12% |
| Lisu | 98.195 | 27.78% |
| Han | 57,928 | 16.39% |
| Naxi | 45,269 | 12.81% |
| Bai | 18,182 | 5.14% |
| Yi | 11,616 | 3.29% |
| Hui | 1,496 | 0.42% |
| Primi | 1,496 | 0.42% |
| Miao | 1,434 | 0.41% |
| Nu | 241 | 0.07% |
| Derung | 137 | 0.04% |
| Others | 425 | 0.11% |
See also
Web links
Commons : Dêqên - collection of images, videos and audio files
District level of Yunnan