Kangting

Kangding 康定市 · དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
County-level city
Kangding from above
Kangding Location in Sichuan
Coordinates: 30°00′00″N 101°57′15″E / 30.00000°N 101.95417°E / 30.00000; 101.95417Coordinates: 30°00′00″N 101°57′15″E / 30.00000°N 101.95417°E / 30.00000; 101.95417
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Elevation	2,560 m (8,400 ft)
Population
• Major Nationalities	Han Tibetan
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	610000
Website	www.kangding.gov.cn

Kangding (Chinese) or Dartsedo (Tibetan), is a city and the location of the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding's urban center has around 100,000 inhabitants.

Kangding (Chinese: 康定; pinyin: Kāngdìng; Wade–Giles: K'ang¹-ting⁴) is also known as Dartsedo (Tibetan: དར་རྩེ་མདོ།, Wylie: dar-rtse-mdo, ZYPY: Darzêdo).

Historically, the urban center was known as Tachienlu or Tatsienlu (simplified Chinese: 打箭炉; traditional Chinese: 打箭爐; pinyin: Dǎjiànlú) from the Chinese transliteration of the Tibetan name Dartsedo until it was changed to Lucheng (simplified Chinese: 炉城; traditional Chinese: 爐城; pinyin: Lúchéng) which is the administrative seat of Kangding.