Luqu County
Luqu County
ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། · 碌曲县 | |
|---|---|
Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling (Taktsang Lhamo Monastery) | |
Luqu County (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) and Gansu | |
| Coordinates (Luqu government): 34°35′27″N 102°29′23″E / 34.5909°N 102.4896°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Autonomous prefecture | Gannan |
| County seat | Lhamo (Langmusi) |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,298.6 km2 (2,045.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 35,871 |
| • Density | 6.8/km2 (18/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 747200 |
| Website | www |
.png){kind=link}
| Luqu County | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 碌曲县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 碌曲縣 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
| |||||||
Luqu County (Chinese: 碌曲县, Tibetan: ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) is a county of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the southeast and Qinghai to the west. Its postal code is 717200, and in 1999 its population was 30,039 people. The word "Luqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Tao River.
Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling (Ganden Shedrub Pekar Drolwailing), a Gelug monastery located in Lhamo (Langmusi), was founded in 1748. It became the seat of the Kirti incarnation line.