Shangri-La, Yunnan
Shangri-La
香格里拉市 · སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | |
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Dukezong old town Zhongxin Assembly Hall Skyline of city | |
Location of Shangri-La (red) in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (pink) within Yunnan | |
Shangri-La Location of the county seat in Yunnan | |
| Coordinates (Diqing Prefecture government): 27°50′45″N 99°44′32″E / 27.8458°N 99.7422°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Diqing |
| Municipal seat | Gyalthang Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 11,613 km2 (4,484 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,160 m (10,370 ft) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
• Total | 186,412 |
| • Density | 16.052/km2 (41.575/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 674400 |
| Area code | 0887 |
| Website | xianggelila |
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| Chinese | 香格里拉 | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 中甸 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ། | ||||||||||
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Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China, named after Shangri-La, the mythical land depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon. It is the capital and largest city of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is bordered by the city of Lijiang to the south and Sichuan province to the northwest, north, and east.