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Nagqu

Nagqu proper noun: a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Proper noun

Nagqu

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • The Dalai Lama gave few details about the boy or how he was discovered. He said only that the child was born in the Lhari district in Nagqu four months after the previous Panchen Lama died in January 1989.1995 May 15, “Tibet Buddhists Call Boy, 6, Reincarnation of No. 2 Monk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2010, Section A, page 6
    • Youdon was arrested in her hometown of Tsarang Township, Amdo County in Tibet’s Nagchu region.[2022 July 14, Sangyal Kunchok, Nawar Nemeh, “Tibetan Woman Arrested for Dalai Lama Photo”, in Tenzin Dickyi, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2022

Origin of Nagqu

From Tibetan ནག་ཆུ (nag chu).

Questions about Nagqu

What does Nagqu mean?
Nagqu means a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
What part of speech is Nagqu?
Nagqu is a proper noun.

Words near Nagqu in the dictionary

  1. Nagpals
  2. NAGPRA
  3. Nagpur
  4. Nagpuri
  5. Nagpuris
  6. Nagqu
  7. NAGR
  8. Nagra
  9. Nagraj
  10. Nagrajs
  11. Nagras

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