Shangri-La (Dêqên)
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Tibetan script :
སེམས་ཀྱི་ ཉི་ ཟླ་ གྲོང་ ཁྱེར །
༼ རྒྱལ་ ཐང་ རྫོང ། ༽ |
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Wylie transliteration : sems kyi nyi zla grong khyer
(rgyal thang rdzong) |
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Official transcription of the PRCh : (Gyaitang Zong)
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Simplified :
香格里拉 市
（中甸 县） |
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Pinyin : Xiānggélǐlā Shì
(Zhōngdiàn Xiàn) |
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Shangri-La (until December 2001 Zhongdian ) is a mainly by Tibetans and Naxi inhabited county-level city in the northwestern Chinese province of Yunnan and seat of government of the Autonomous District Dêqên the Tibetans. Shangri-La has an area of 11,613 km², about 130,000 inhabitants (end of 2004) and is located at an altitude of 3200 m .
The city is on the way to Tibet and is visited by a relatively large number of tourists who, among other things , want to visit the Ganden Songtsenling ( tib. Dga 'ldan srong btsan gling ) monastery located here . Furthermore, in the vicinity of Shangri-La, at an altitude of 3,318 to 3,980 meters, there is a modern winter sports area, where, among other things, part of the cross-country Far East Cup 2007/08 was held.
Surname
The original Zhongdian County was established in 1913. Its name was only changed on December 17, 2001 in order to attract more tourists with the world-famous “Shangri-La”. The native Tibetan name is Gyelthang ( rgyal thang ). The name Shangri-La refers to the novel The Lost Horizon by the British writer James Hilton . On December 16, 2014, Shangri-La County was converted into an independent city.
Fire 2014
On January 11, 2014, a fire destroyed 242 of the 1,084 houses in the old town of Shangri-Las, which were mostly made of wood. There were no dead or injured. In June 2016, the reconstruction was well advanced.
Administrative structure
At the community level, Shangri-La consists of four large communities , six communities and one nationality community. These are (2000 population census):
- Greater community Jiantang (建塘镇) 47,577 inhabitants, the capital, seat of the city government;
- Greater community Xiaozhongdian (小中甸镇), 9,267 inhabitants;
- Greater community Hutiaoxia (虎跳峡镇), 18 438 inhabitants;
- Greater community Jinjiang (金江镇), 16,084 inhabitants;
- Shangjiang Township (上 江 乡), population 10,915;
- Community Luoji (洛吉乡), 4,458 inhabitants;
- Nixi municipality (尼西 乡), 6,631 inhabitants;
- Gaiza municipality (格 咱 乡), 6,710 inhabitants;
- Dongwang Township (东 旺 乡), 6,675 residents;
- Wujing Township (五 境 乡), 3,929 residents;
- Sanba der Naxi municipality (三 坝 纳西族 乡), 16,732 inhabitants.
Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)
At the 2000 census, Shangri-La had 147,416 residents.
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Tibetans | 59,375 | 40.28% |
| Han | 32,037 | 21.73% |
| Naxi | 25,840 | 17.53% |
| Lisu | 10.167 | 6.9% |
| Yi | 9,586 | 6.50% |
| Bai | 7,272 | 4.93% |
| Miao | 1,373 | 0.93% |
| Hui | 1,254 | 0.85% |
| Primi | 207 | 0.14% |
| Zhuang | 76 | 0.05% |
| Dai | 32 | 0.02% |
| Hani | 24 | 0.02% |
| Va | 19th | 0.01% |
| Uighurs | 16 | 0.01% |
| Bouyei | 16 | 0.01% |
| Manju | 15th | 0.01% |
| Others | 107 | 0.07% |
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Shangri-La
Source: weather.com.cn
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literature
- Åshild Kolås: Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition. A place called Shangrila . London / New York: Routledge, 2008.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Shangri-la ski area In: skiresort.de, accessed on November 1, 2018
- ↑ also Gyalthang (Tib. གྱང་ ཐང་ རྫོང་; Wyl.rgyal thang rdzong)
- ↑ Chris Buckley: Fire Ravages China District Said to Inspire Shangri-La. The New York Times, January 11, 2014, accessed July 5, 2016 .
Coordinates: 27 ° 50 ' N , 99 ° 42' E