Dêqên, Lhasa

Dêqên བདེ་ཆེན་ · 德庆镇
Town
Dêqên Location within the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates (Dêqên government): 29°40′09″N 91°22′00″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level city	Lhasa
District	Dagzê
Nearby settlements (distance)	Baga  15.9 mi (26 km) Bayizhen  9.2 mi (15 km) Puqu  6 mi (10 km) Pula  6.2 mi (10 km) Qomo  8.2 mi (13 km)
Population
• Major Nationalities	Tibetan
• Regional dialect	Tibetan language
Time zone	UTC+8 (CST)

Dêqên (Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་, Wylie: déchen), or Deqing in Chinese (simplified Chinese: 德庆; traditional Chinese: 德慶; pinyin: Déqìng), is a town and the seat of Dagzê District, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is near Ganden Monastery, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of central Lhasa.[1]

Footnotes

1. Buckley, Michael and Strauss, Robert. Tibet: a travel survival kit, p. 150. (1986) Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 0-908086-88-1.