Gungtang Township

Gungtang,[1][2][lower-alpha 1] or Kotang,[lower-alpha 2] called Gongdang by China,[lower-alpha 3][5] is a village and township in the Gyirong County in the Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet region of China.

In addition to Gungtang, the township contains three villages: Ru, Tsang (Zhang village) and Kangpo (Kangbei village).[6]

See also

Notes
  1. Tibetan: གུང་ཐང, Wylie: gung thang, THL: gung tang, ZYPY: Kungtang.[3] The alternative spelling of Kungtang is also seen English.[4]
  2. Tibetan: ཀོ་ཐང, Wylie: ko thang, THL: ko tang, ZYPY: Gotang.[3]
  3. Chinese: 贡当乡; pinyin: Gòng dāng xiāng.[3]

References
  1. Roberts, Peter Alan (2000), The Biographies of Ras-chung-pa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography, University of Oxford, p. 165
  2. Tibetmap sheet 2884, Tibet Map Institute, November 2016; Gungtang, KMAPS, University of Virginia, retrieved 14 January 2023.
  3. "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Xigazê Prefecture-Level City". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03.
  4. Strachey, Henry (1854), Physical Geography of Western Tibet, London: William Clows and Sons, p. 4 – via archive.org
  5. Townships of Jilong County, Nationanl Bureau of Stistics, China, retrieved 14 January 2023.
  6. Gongdang Township, Nationanl Bureau of Stistics, China, retrieved 14 January 2023.


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