the Tibetan word བདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), which means "auspicious place". In Chinese, the name is written with the characters 德 (dé) and 钦 (qīn), which mean "benevolence"...

governor. The prefecture's name is derived from the Tibetan word བདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), which means "auspicious place". In Chinese, the name is written with the...

Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 4 April 2018. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese)...

should be included to distinguish its pronunciation from the single syllable xian.) The name was adopted in 1369 under the early Ming dynasty. Jesuit missionaries...

and east. The city was originally a county named Zhongdian (中甸县; Zhōngdiàn Xiàn); the Tibetan population referred to the area by its traditional name Gyalthang...

691 Dali 872 Dehong 692 Nujiang 886 Dêqên (Diqing) 887 29 - Dongchuan formerly 881, incorporated into 871 30 - also de facto used by Wa State of  Myanmar...

(恭州), Xiezhou (协州), and Kunzhou (昆州) in Yunnan. In the fourth year of the Wu De era of the Tang dynasty (621 AD), the Tang sent envoys to the Erhai region...

Puning city in Jieyang plus all of Chaozhou city largely conurbated. This is de facto the 5th built-up area in mainland China between Hangzhou-Shaoxing (13...

chief. The party chief heads the municipal party standing committee, the de facto top governing council of the municipality. The standing committee is...

County Yingjiang County Longchuan County Nujiang Lushui city Fugong County Gongshan County Lanping County Dêqên Shangri-La city Dêqên County Weixi County...