OTHER MAPS ON THIS SITE

• Regional map with Romanized Tibetan names

• Sha-de area, including Minyak Konka trekking map

• Derge County

• Derge Town

• Garze (Ganzi) Map, with Rongbatsa and Manigango

• Sketch map of major approach highways

• Kangding and trekking routes west

• Yading Reserve, with the mountains Chenresig, Jambeyang, and Chanadorje  

• Yalong River valley in southern Yajiang County (earthquake area)

• Xiangcheng/Chatreng County, showing Bamu Lake trekking route

• Another Gongga Shan / Minya Konka area with Chinese names included 

Other maps of Tibet are being compiled by the Tibet Map Institute.

NOTES

Tibetans were not avid geographers, and Lhasa issued no authoritative maps showing the boundaries of Kham that we are aware of. Now, of course, boundaries have been clearly demarked for provinces, prefectures, counties, and townships, but there is no unique geographic entity that corresponds to the old Tibetan province of Kham, which is composed of pieces of eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, western Sichuan, southeast Qinghai, and northwest Yunnan. Many places in Yunnan and Tibet Autonomous Region have been omitted, not because they are unimportant, but because Kham Aid Foundation does not (yet) have activities there.

Place-names on the map above are commonly-used among the international community; in most cases they are Pinyin (a standard system for Romanizing Mandarin Chinese); in some cases they are a hybrid of the Chinese and Tibetan. With so many languages and dialects used in Kham, there is no one "right" way to spell names in English, or even a unique "right" way to pronounce them. This difficulty applies to everything from rivers, mountains, and monasteries, to personal names.

Some equivalents are given in the table below:

Pinyin	Common spelling(s) of Tibetan name	Transliteration of Tibetan writing	Other names
Kangding	Dartsendo, Dardo	Dar rTse mDo, Dar mDo	Ta-tsien-lu, Minyak, Chakla, Lucheng
Dege	Derge	sDe dGe	Gonchen, Gengqing
Luhuo	Trango, Drango	Prag 'Go
Yajiang	Nyachuka	Nyag Chhu Ga
Xinlong	Nyarong	Nyag Rong
Baiyu	Pelyul	dPal Yul
Xiangcheng	Chetren, Chaktreng	Phyag Phreng
Changdu	Chamdo	Chhab mDo
Yushu	Jyekundo	sKye dGu mDo
Shiqu	Serxu, Sershul	Ser Shul
Jiangda	Jomda	'Jo mda'
Ganzi	Garze, Kandze	dKar mDzes
Daofu	Dawu, Tawu	rTau
Jiulong	Gyezil	brGyad Dzil
Batang	Batang	'Ba' Thang	Bah
Litang	Litang	Li thang
Tagong	Lhagang	Lha Gang
Qiao'er Shan	Tro La		Cho La
Gongga Shan	Minya Konka
Xiang ge li la	Gyeltang	eGyal thang	Shangrila, Gyeltangteng, Zhongdian
Danba	Rongtrak	Rong Brag
Jinsha Jiang	Dri Chu		upper Yangtze River

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