Shangri-La
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- > Xianggelila (Chinese, Latin script, Alt Spelling-Variant Spelling)
- སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)(December, 2001 - )
- > Sems kyi nyi zla grong khyer (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > sem kyi nyinda drongkhyer (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
- 香格里拉市 (Chinese, Simplified Chinese Characters, Original)(December, 2001 - )
- > xiang ge li la shi (Chinese, Latin script, Transcription-Pinyin Transcription)(December, 2001 - )
- Etymology for Shangri-La:
Formerly called Zhongdian County (中甸县; Zhōngdiàn Xiàn), but it was renamed on 17 December 2001 and upgraded into a county-level city on 16 December 2014 as Shangri-La (other spellings: Semkyi'nyida, Xianggelila, or Xamgyi'nyilha) after the fictional land of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel Lost Horizon, in an effort to promote tourism in the area.
Place ID: F134684