Zhongba County

Coordinates: 29°46′12″N 84°01′53″E / 29.77000°N 84.03139°E / 29.77000; 84.03139
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Zhongba County
仲巴县 • འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།
Drongpa
China Standard)
Websitewww.zbx.gov.cn
Zhongba County
Chinese name
Tibetan
འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།

Drongpa County[2][3] or Zhongba County[4] (

Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra).[5] Zhongba is said to mean "place of wild yaks" in Tibetan. The county seat is at Labrang
, which is also called the "Drongpa Township".

Geography

Drongpa County is the largest county in the Shigatse Prefecture by geographical area.

Richter scale, on 30 August 2008. Although the temblor left a 10 km (6.2 mi) north-south crack at the epicenter located at 31° north and 83.6° east, and houses were damaged and roads blocked by falling rocks, there were no reported injuries.[7] The county is dotted with lakes such as Taro Tso, Nganglha Ringtso and Rinchen Shubtso
.

Drongpa County shares the Tibet Autonomous Region's southern border with most of western

Lo Manthang
.

Administration divisions

Zhongba County is divided into 1 town and 12 townships.

Name Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
 Wylie
Town
Baryang Town

(Paryang) 		帕羊镇 Pàyáng zhèn བར་ཡངས་གྲོང་རྡལ། bar yangs grong rdal
Townships
Labrang Township
(Drongpa) 		拉让乡 Lāràng xiāng ལ་བྲང་ཤང་། la brang shang
Qonkor Township 琼果乡 Qióngguǒ xiāng ཆོས་འཁོར་ཤང་། chos 'khor shang
Yagra Township
 亚热乡 Yàrè xiāng ཡག་ར་ཤང་། yag ra shang
Bodoi Township 布多乡 Bùduō xiāng སྤོ་སྟོད་ཤང་། spo stod shang
Penchi Township 偏吉乡 Piānjí xiāng ཕན་ཕྱི་ཤང་། phen phyi shang
Nagqu Township 纳久乡 Nàjiǔ xiāng ནག་ཆུ་ཤང་། nag chu shang
Gêla Township
 吉拉乡 Jílā xiāng སྐེད་ལ་ཤང་། sked la shang
Horpa Township 霍尔巴乡 Huò'ěrbā xiāng ཧོར་པ་ཤང་། hor pa shang
Lunggar Township
 隆嘎尔乡 Lónggā'ěr xiāng ལུང་དཀར་ཤང་། lung dkar shang
Gyêma Township 吉玛乡 Jímǎ xiāng སྐྱེ་མ་ཤང་། skye ma shang
Rintor Township
 仁多乡 Rénduō xiāng རི་འཐོར་ཤང་། ri 'thor shang
Barma Township

(Pama) 		帕江乡 Pàjiāng xiāng བར་མ་ཤང་། bar ma shang

Maps

  • Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (AMS, 1954)
    Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (AMS, 1954)
  • Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (DMA, 1985)
    Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (
    DMA
    , 1985)

Transport

China National Highway 219

References

  1. ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
  2. ^ Tibet 2002: A Year Book, Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
  3. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 334.
  4. ISBN 978-1-5036-2979-0
    .
  5. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 256.
  6. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0
    . Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  7. ^ "Strong earthquake in Tibet leaves no casualties, but big crack". Xinhua News Agency. 2008-08-30. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.

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