At A Glance
- Coordinates
- 28.9236, 89.6033
Overview
Gyantse is a town of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 28.92358, 89.60329. Attributes: built, cultural. Tradition: Buddhism. Gyantse, officially Gyangzê Town (also spelled Gyangtse; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ, Wylie: rgyal rtse, ZYPY: Gyangzê; simplified Chinese: 江孜镇; traditional Chinese: 江孜鎮; pinyin: Jiāngzī Zhèn), is a town located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in Tibet (after Lhasa and Shigatse), but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities. Located in 江孜县 རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང།, 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།, China.
Sacred Cluster
Nearby sacred places create the location cluster described in the growth plan. This block is intentionally crawlable and links into the wider regional graph.
