- Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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Diqing Prefecture — Autonomous prefecture — བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་
迪庆藏族自治州Snowy mountains (probably 'white-horse mountain') in Diqing (迪庆), north-west Yunnan, China
Location of Diqing Prefecture within Yunnan province of China
Country China Province Yunnan Admin HQ Shangri-La Area – Total 23,870 km2 (9,216.3 sq mi) Population – Total 353,518 – Density 14.8/km2 (38.4/sq mi) Postal code 674400 Area code(s) 0887 Website http://www.diqing.gov.cn/ Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 迪庆藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 迪慶藏族自治州; pinyin: Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Bde-chen Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul) is an autonomous prefecture in Yunnan. It has an area of 23,870 km² and has its capital at Shangri-La County.
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Subdivisions
Main article: List of administrative divisions of YunnanDiqing is divided into three counties, among which one is an autonomous county.
Map # Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Population
(2003 est.)Area (km²) Density
(/km²)
1 Shangri-La County 香格里拉县 Xiānggélǐlā Xiàn རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྫོང་། (Gyalthang) 130,000 11,613 11 2 Dêqên County 德钦县 Déqīn Xiàn མཇོལ་རྫོང་། (Jol) 60,000 7,596 8 3 Weixi Lisu Autonomous County 维西傈僳族
自治县Wéixī Lìsùzú
Zìzhìxiànའབའ་ལུང་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཛོང་། (Balung) 140,000 4,661 30 Transport
Air
Located in Gezanba, Diqing Airport is one of the biggest airports in the northwest of the Yunnan Province. There are flights to Lhasa, Chengdu, Beijing(via Kunming), Shanghai Pudong, Shenzhen (via Guiyang), Guangzhou, Kunming and Xishuangbanna.
Road
Highways are main means of transportation to reach Diqing Prefecture. Diqing connects Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet, with a network of highway lines is formed with Yunnan-Tibet highway, Sichuan-Tibet highway and Kangding-Tibet being main roads.
There are also direct bus routes to Kunming, Lijiang, Panzhihua (Sichuan) and neighboring Deqin County.
Demography
Ethnic groups in Diqing, 2000 census
Nationality Population Percentage Tibetan 117,099 33.12% Lisu 98,195 27.78% Han 57,928 16.39% Naxi 45,269 12.81% Bai 18,182 5.14% Yi 11,616 3.29% Hui 1,496 0.42% Pumi 1,496 0.42% Miao 1,434 0.41% Nu 241 0.07% Derung 137 0.04% Others 425 0.11% External links
Coordinates: 27°50′N 99°36′E / 27.833°N 99.6°E
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