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Rebkong · NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0

Rebkong monastery · Andelicek.andy, CC BY-SA 3.0

Longwu Monastery 1 · Ken Marshall from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0

June 07 sony 167 (2208708739) · gill_penney, CC BY 2.0

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Tongren, China

同仁市

Tongren is a town of 103,700 people in Qinghai, China, founded in 1929.

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Population103,700 GeoNames

Local name同仁市

RegionQinghai

Elevation2,480 m 8,136 ft

Founded1929

Time zoneAsia/Shanghai

Land area3,195.0 km²

Nearest airportGannan Xiahe Airport (GXH) 95 km

Why visit Tongren

Townapedia lists 2 museums and landmarks, 1 place to eat and 5 places to stay in and around town.

About Tongren

Tongren (Tibetan: ཐུན་རིན་, Wylie: thun rin; Chinese: 同仁; pinyin: Tóngrén), known to Tibetans as Rebgong (Tibetan: རེབ་གོང་, རེབ་ཀོང་ or རེབ་སྐོང་, Amdo Tibetan pronunciation: [ɾɛʋ koŋ]) in the historic region of Amdo, is the capital and second smallest administrative subdivision by area within Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, China.

From the Wikipedia article Tongren, Qinghai (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Travel tips from other travellers: Tongren on Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Museums and landmarks2

热贡艺术博物馆

Museum · 6.2 km

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热贡艺术博物馆

Museum · 1.0 km

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Restaurants and cafes1

Rebgong Home

Restaurant · 2.5 km

隆务镇唯哇村公路旁

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Where to stay5

热贡宾馆

Motel and hotel · 0.6 km

Dong ge er n°1

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夏琼招待所

Motel and hotel

13 Maixi Rd

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Jinhuang Guonong Homeland

Motel and hotel · 1.9 km

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Mingxi Hotel

Motel and hotel

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黄南州热贡四合吉宾馆

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Churches and places of worship11

Rongwo Temple

Rongwo Temple

Place of worship · Tibetan · 0.9 km

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Böngya Gönpa

Place of worship · Gelug · 13.5 km

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Garsar Ganden Chömpel Ling

Place of worship · Gelug · 7.3 km

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gompa

Place of worship · Tibetan · 1.9 km

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Khyung Gönpa

Place of worship · Tibetan · 6.8 km

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Maksar Menre Shedrup Mindröl Ling

Place of worship · Tibetan · 13.0 km

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Mountain god temple

Place of worship · Tibetan · 0.6 km

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Musel Gar

Place of worship · Tibetan · 13.3 km

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Wuton Tongren

Place of worship · Tibetan · 6.3 km

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贡寺

Place of worship · Tibetan · 9.4 km

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Golakha Gönpa

Place of worship · 7.5 km

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Shopping1

Zhaxiyangzong Firm

Grocery · 14.1 km

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Map of Tongren

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Getting there and nearby towns

Gannan Xiahe Airport (GXH) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 95 km away.

Ganjia 47 km east, about 47 min by car
Labuleng 58 km southeast, about 58 min by car
Sangke 58 km southeast, about 58 min by car
Damai 68 km southeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
Madang 73 km east, about 1 h 15 min by car
Wangge’ertang 80 km east, about 1 h 15 min by car
Qu’ao 83 km east, about 1 h 30 min by car
Tangga’an 86 km southeast, about 1 h 30 min by car

Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.

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Sources and licences

GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website
Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text

Photo credits

Rebkong, NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0
Rebkong monastery, Andelicek.andy, CC BY-SA 3.0
Longwu Monastery 1, Ken Marshall from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 167 (2208708739), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 268 (2209626436), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 188 (2209526486), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 245 (2208802289), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 210 (2209559860), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 253 (2208814331), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 248 (2209601280), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 158 (2209487736), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 215 (2208768323), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
June 07 sony 240 (2208793749), gill_penney, CC BY 2.0
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