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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''' ({{bo|t=འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང༌།|z=Zhongba Zong}}; {{zh|s=仲巴县|p=Zhōngbā Xiàn|l=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.
'''Drongpa County''' or '''Zhongba County'''<ref>
[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_14410760_001/page/n147/mode/2up?view=theater Tibet 2002: A Year Book], Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
</ref>{{sfnp|Dorje, Footprint Tibet|2004|p=334}} ({{bo|t=འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་|w=`brong pa rdzong|s=drong pa dzong|z=Zhongba Zong}}; {{zh|s=仲巴县|p=Zhōngbā Xiàn|l=Place of Wild Yaks}}) is a county of [[Shigatse Prefecture]] in China's [[Tibet Autonomous Region]]. Located in the western part of Central Tibet (sometmes referred to as "western Tibet"), it is the birthplace of the [[Tsangpo River]] (Brahmaputra).{{sfnp|Dorje, Footprint Tibet|2004|p=256}} The county seat is the Labrang Town, which is also called the Drongpa Town (Zhongba Xian).


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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 magnitude scale|Richter]] scale, on 30 August 2008. Although the temblor left a {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}} 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/30/content_9739195.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082826/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/30/content_9739195.htm|title=Strong earthquake in Tibet leaves no casualties, but big crack|url-status=dead|date=2008-08-30|archive-date=2016-03-04|work=[[Xinhua News Agency]]}}</ref> The county is dotted with lakes such as [[Taruo Lake]], [[Ang Laren Lake]] and [[Renqingxiubu Lake]].
== Geography ==

==Borders==
[[File:Txu-oclc-10552568-nh44-12.jpg|thumb|left|MUSTĀNG (1954)]]
[[File:Txu-oclc-10552568-nh44-12.jpg|thumb|left|MUSTĀNG (1954)]]
[[File:NH-44-12 Mustang Nepal.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NH-44-12 Mustang Nepal.jpg|thumb|left]]
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Zhongba County shares the Tibet Autonomous Region's southern border with most of western [[Nepal]]'s [[Karnali Zone|Karnali]] and [[Dhaulagiri Zone|Dhaulagiri]] [[List of zones of Nepal|Zones]] with a [[Geography of nepal#Border crossings with China|border crossing]] into [[Mustang District|Mustang]] [[List of districts of Nepal|District]] leading through the former [[Upper Mustang|''Lo Kingdom'']] to its historic capital ''[[Lo Manthang]]''.

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Drongpa County is the largest county in the Shigatse Prefecture by geographical area. It 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 magnitude scale|Richter]] scale, on 30 August 2008. Although the temblor left a {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}} 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/30/content_9739195.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082826/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/30/content_9739195.htm|title=Strong earthquake in Tibet leaves no casualties, but big crack|url-status=dead|date=2008-08-30|archive-date=2016-03-04|work=[[Xinhua News Agency]]}}</ref> The county is dotted with lakes such as [[Taruo Lake]], [[Ang Laren Lake]] and [[Renqingxiubu Lake]].

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Drongpa County shares the Tibet Autonomous Region's southern border with most of western [[Nepal]]'s [[Karnali Zone|Karnali]] and [[Dhaulagiri Zone|Dhaulagiri]] [[List of zones of Nepal|Zones]] with a [[Geography of nepal#Border crossings with China|border crossing]] into [[Mustang District|Mustang]] [[List of districts of Nepal|District]] leading through the former [[Upper Mustang|''Lo Kingdom'']] to its historic capital ''[[Lo Manthang]]''.
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==Town and townships==
==Town and townships==
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* [[Paryang|Baryang Town]] ({{bo-textonly|བར་ཡངས་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|帕羊镇}})
* [[Paryang|Baryang Town]] ({{bo-textonly|བར་ཡངས་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|帕羊镇}})
* [[Labrang Township]] ({{bo-textonly|ལ་བྲང་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|拉让乡}})
* [[Labrang Township]] ({{bo-textonly|ལ་བྲང་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|拉让乡}})
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* [[Ringtor|Rintor Township]] ({{bo-textonly|རི་འཐོར་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|仁多乡}})
* [[Ringtor|Rintor Township]] ({{bo-textonly|རི་འཐོར་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|仁多乡}})
* [[Yagra|Yagra Township]] ({{bo-textonly|ཡག་ར་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|亚热乡}})
* [[Yagra|Yagra Township]] ({{bo-textonly|ཡག་ར་}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|亚热乡}})
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== Transport ==
== Transport ==
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==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{citation |last=Dorje |first=Gyurme |title=Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan |edition=3rd |url=https://archive.org/details/footprinttibet0000dorj |via=archive.org |url-access=registration |publisher=Footprint Handbooks |location=Bath |year=2004 |ISBN=1-903471-30-3 |ref={{sfnref|Dorje, Footprint Tibet|2004}}}}



{{County-level divisions of Tibet}}
{{County-level divisions of Tibet}}

Revision as of 23:56, 22 October 2022

Zhongba County
仲巴县 • འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Zhongba County (red) in Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Location of Zhongba County (red) in Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Zhongba is located in Ngari
Zhongba
Zhongba
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Coordinates: 29°46′12″N 84°01′53″E / 29.77000°N 84.03139°E / 29.77000; 84.03139
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous RegionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
SeatLabrang
Time zoneUTC+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

MUSTĀNG (1954)

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

Transport

China National Highway 219

Footnotes

  1. ^ "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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