Lucheng, Kangding

Lucheng 炉城镇 · མདོ་ཁྲིན་རྡལ།
Town
View of Lucheng
Lucheng Location in Sichuan
Coordinates: 30°03′19″N 101°57′53″E
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
County-level city	Kangding
Elevation	2,560 m (8,400 ft)
Population
• Major Nationalities	Han Tibetan
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	610000
Website	www.kangding.gov.cn

Lucheng/Dartsedo
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	炉城
Traditional Chinese	爐城
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lúchéng
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	打箭炉
Traditional Chinese	打箭爐
Postal	Tatsienlu
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dǎjiànlú
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མདོ་ཁྲིན།
Transcriptions Wylie mdo khrin Tibetan Pinyin Dochin

Lucheng, often called Kangding, is an administrative town and the urban center of Kangding city in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan province of Southwest China. The town occupies an area which is administratively part of urban Kangding, and it has around 100,000 inhabitants.

Transport

• China National Highway 318

References

Bibliography

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