"Minya Konka" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ (mi nyag gangs dkar ri bo). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|bo|མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ}} Tibetan མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ (mi nyag gangs dkar ri bo) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|nolinkhead=1}} Minya Konka
  1. A mountain in Garzê, Sichuan, China. Wikipedia link: Mount Gongga Categories (place): Mountains, Places in China, Places in Sichuan, China Translations (mountain): 貢嘎山 /贡嘎山 (Gònggá Shān) (Chinese Mandarin)
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