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Prefecture-level city in Tibet, China
Photo: Luo Shaoyang from Beijing, China, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nagqu ( Chinese: 那曲市; Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།། ) is a prefecture-level city in northern Tibet and the largest prefecture-level city in China by land area. In addition to being a transit station for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, it also has many unknown beauties.
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Chinese: 纳木错; pinyin: Nàmù Cuò; Tibetan: གནམ་མཚོ
The second largest salt lake in Tibet. The main tourist attraction of Namtso in Nagqu is the Holy Elephant Gate, which is a stone with a hole in the middle standing by the lake. It looks like an elephant and is very beautiful when paired with the lake view.
Chinese: 色林错; pinyin: Sèlín cuò; Tibetan: སེར་གླིང་མཚོ
The largest lake in Tibet. There are a large number of black-necked cranes and some 120 species of birds in total.
Chinese: 当惹雍错; Tibetan: དྭངས་རྭ་གཡུ་མཚོ
By car
There are two main roads connecting to Nagqu, one is the G109 National Highway from Beijing to Lhasa, and the other is the G317 National Highway from Chengdu to Gaer.
Most of the attractions in Nagqu are very far away from each other, so a personal or rental car is the most convenient form of transportation.
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