Günsa
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Gar Günsa (), also called Günsa or Kunsa (), is a township in Gar County in the Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet region of China. Gar Günsa is situated on the bank of the Gartang River, one of the headwaters of the Indus River flowing to the south of the Kailash Range, at an elevation of . Gar Günsa, along with its sister encampment Gar Yarsa, used to be the administrative headquarters for Western Tibet (Ngari) and jointly referred to as Gartok. In 1965, the headquarters of Ngari was moved to Shiquanhe, which also serves as the headquarters of the Ngari Prefecture as whole.
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- Official name
- 昆莎乡
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Gar County
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
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Gar Günsa (), also called Günsa or Kunsa (), is a township in Gar County in the Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet region of China. Gar Günsa is situated on the bank of the Gartang River, one of the headwaters of the Indus River flowing to the south of the Kailash Range, at an elevation of . Gar Günsa, along with its sister encampment Gar Yarsa, used to be the administrative headquarters for Western Tibet (Ngari) and jointly referred to as Gartok. In 1965, the headquarters of Ngari was moved to Shiquanhe, which also serves as the headquarters of the Ngari Prefecture as whole.
The seat of the township is Gar Chongsar (; ). The Ngari Gunsa Airport is adjacent to the village. Two other administrative villages, Sogmai () and Namru () are part of the township.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Günsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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