Nagchu Town
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Nagchukha, or Chinese transliteration: Naqu (simplified Chinese: 那曲; pinyin: Nàqū), is a small town in northern Tibet, seat of the Nagqu Prefecture approximately 250 kilometers north-east of the capital Lhasa, in the People's Republic of China.
At the time of the visit in 1950 of Thubten Jigme Norbu, the elder brother of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Nagchukha was a small town with only a few clay huts but was also the headquarters of the District Officer, the Dzongpön. it was on the main caravan route coming from Amdo to Central Tibet.[1]
It is along the newly opened Qingzang railway and is its highest station, at 14,850 feet (4,526 meters).
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Tibet is My Country: Autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, Brother of the Dalai Lama as told to Heinrich Harrer, p. 160. First published in German in 1960. English translation by Edward Fitzgerald, published 1960. Reprint, with updated new chapter, (1986): Wisdom Publications, London. ISBN 0-86171-045-2.
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