| Dangquka, 当曲卡 | |
| Other Name: | Damxung |
| Native Name: | འདམ་ཆུ་ཁ། |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Translit Lang1: | Tibetan |
| Translit Lang1 Type: | Tibetan |
| Translit Lang1 Type1: | Wylie transliteration |
| Translit Lang2: | Chinese |
| Translit Lang2 Type: | Traditional |
| Translit Lang2 Type1: | Simplified |
| Translit Lang2 Type2: | Pinyin |
| Pushpin Map: | China Tibet |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lhasa |
| Subdivision Type3: | County |
| Subdivision Name3: | Damxung |
| Subdivision Type4: | Village-level divisions |
| Subdivision Name4: | 2 residential communities |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
| Coordinates: | 30.4775°N 91.1028°W |
| Elevation M: | 4288 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 851500 |
| Area Code: | 0891 |
Dangquka, or Damquka (; Tibetan: འདམ་ཆུ་ཁ།) is a small modern Tibetan town of low-barrack like buildings and is the administrative centre of Damxung County, roughly two and a half hours by road northeast of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The main road in and out of the town is China National Highway 109., it has 2 residential communities (Chinese: 社区) under its administration.[1]
Unlike many of the quaint old Tibetan settlements in the more southern farming areas of Tibet this town is modern, built up during the 1960s by the Chinese. Damxung is an important spot in the region for government functions and general supplies. It has a large warehouse set back from the main street where basic necessities and warm clothes can be bought for trekking through the mountains. Its nearest towns are Yangpachen to the south and Nagqu to the north.
A major Tibetan festival called Dajyur takes place at Damxung at the beginning of the eighth month of the lunar calendar (solar September) for ten days of festivity attracting nomads to compete in horse racing and yak racing events, bicycle riding contests, rock-carrying competitions and other forms of merriment.
From Dangquka a highway starts to the sacred lake of Namtso, 60 km away.
"On March 25 [2005], the city published a government decree outlawing production, sale and use of non-biodegradable plastic food containers and bags, replacing them with biodegradable materials such as paper. This took effect on May 1."[2]