Nyalam Town

Coordinates: 28°09′26″N 85°58′45″E / 28.1572°N 85.9793°E / 28.1572; 85.9793
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Nyalam Town
གཉའ་ལམ་གྲོང་བརྡལ · 聂拉木镇
Town
Xigaze
Elevation
3,750 m (12,300 ft)
Nyalam Town
Chinese name
Tibetan
གཉའ་ལམ་གྲོང་བརྡལ

Nyalam (

Shigatse Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, near the Nepal border. It is 35 km from Zhangmu town in the same county, which is the point of entry to Nepal
. Nyalam is situated at 3,750 metres (12,300 ft) above sea level.

Once a town of stone buildings and tin roofs, Nyalam was known as Tsongdu

Nepalese trans-himalayan traders called it Kuti (Nepali
: कुती) and also 'The Gate of Hell' because the old trail down to the Nepalese border was very treacherous.

Today Nyalam is a fast-growing little town made of concrete buildings located on the

Sun Kosi in Nepal.[2][3] The town is about 40 km from the Nepalese
border and 150 km from Kathmandu.

See also
  • Outside Milarepa's Cave, about 10 km north of Nyalam Town
    Outside Milarepa's Cave, about 10 km north of Nyalam Town
  • "Police Attention: No distributing any unhealthy thoughts or objects." A trilingual (Tibetan - Chinese- English) sign above the entrance to a small cafe in Nyalam Town, Tibet, 1993.
    "Police Attention: No distributing any unhealthy thoughts or objects." A trilingual (Tibetan - Chinese- English) sign above the entrance to a small cafe in Nyalam Town, Tibet, 1993.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "Xigazê prefecture-level city (Tibet AR, China)". Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b Dorje (1999), p. 305.
  3. ^ Mayhew, Bradley and Kohn (2005), p. 193.

References

External links

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