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Prefecture-level city in Tibet, China

Lhoka

Shannan, also known as Lhoka, is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Lhoka
Lhoka · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Shannan, also known as Lhoka, is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Shannan includes Gonggar County within its jurisdiction with Gongkar Chö Monastery, Gonggar Dzong, and Gonggar Airport all located near Gonggar town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lhoka

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tradruk Temple

    Tradruk Temple in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say it predates that temple. Tradruk Temple is located in Nêdong County of Lhoka in the Tibet Autonomous Region, about seven kilometres south of the county seat, Tsetang.

    4.9 km · Tibetan monastery in Changzhug, Nedong, Shannan, Tibet, China · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Lhoka

Airports
Lhasa Gonggar (LXA), 84 km · Xigaze Peace / Shigatse Air Base (RKZ), 240 km
  • Shannan (Gonggar) → Lhoka
    84 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · ¥37–49
  • Xigazê (Samzhubzê) → Lhoka
    281 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · ¥120–160
  • Lijiang → Lhoka
    870 km · quickest by air, 10h 43m · ¥920–1,410
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lhoka

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lhoka. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    184 km
  2. 02
    ZiroIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    MajuliIN

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    440 km
  5. 05
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    452 km

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