Zhongba County 仲巴县 • འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་། | |
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| Coordinates: 29°46′12″N 84°01′53″E / 29.77000°N 84.03139°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| Seat | Labrang |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Zhongba County (Tibetan: འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང༌།, ZYPY: Zhongba Zong; Chinese: 仲巴县; pinyin: Zhōngbā Xiàn; lit. 'Place of Gaur') is a county of Xigazê Prefecture in China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Located in western Tibet, it is the largest county in the prefecture.
Zhongba County has a population of approximately 18,000 and covers 43,594 square kilometers. It is prone to earthquakes and suffered a large one, 6.8 on the 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.[1] The county is dotted with lakes such as Taruo Lake, Ang Laren Lake and Renqingxiubu Lake.
Borders
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Zhongba County shares the Tibet Autonomous Region's southern border with most of western Nepal's Karnali and Dhaulagiri Zones with a border crossing into Mustang District leading through the former Lo Kingdom to its historic capital Lo Manthang.
Town and townships
- Baryang Town (བར་ཡངས་, 帕羊镇)
- Labrang Township (ལ་བྲང་, 拉让乡)
- Bodoi Township (སྤོ་སྟོད་, 布多乡)
- Gêla Township (སྐེད་ལ་, 吉拉乡)
- Gyêma Township (སྐྱེ་མ་, 吉玛乡)
- Horpa Township (ཧོར་པ་, 霍尔巴乡)
- Lunggar Township (ལུང་དཀར་, 隆嘎尔乡)
- Nagqu Township (ནག་ཆུ་, 纳久乡)
- Penchi Township (ཕན་ཕྱི་, 偏吉乡)
- Barma Township (བར་མ་, 帕玛乡)
- Qonkor Township (ཆོས་འཁོར་, 琼果乡)
- Rintor Township (རི་འཐོར་, 仁多乡)
- Yagra Township (ཡག་ར་, 亚热乡)
Transport
Footnotes
- ^ "Strong earthquake in Tibet leaves no casualties, but big crack". Xinhua News Agency. 2008-08-30. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.