Cona (Shannan)

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
མཚོ་ སྣ་ རྫོང
Wylie transliteration :
mtsho sna rdzong
Official transcription of the PRCh :
Cona
THDL transcription :
Tsona
Other spellings:
Tshona
Chinese name
Traditional :
錯 那 縣
Simplified :
错 那 县
Pinyin :
Cuònà Xiàn
Location of Cona County (pink) in Shannan Governorate (yellow) in the Tibet Autonomous Region

Cona ( Tibetan : མཚོ་ སྣ་ རྫོང , transcription after Wylie : mtsho sna rdzong; also: Tshona Dzong ) is a district in the Shannan administrative district of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . It has an area of ​​34,979 square kilometers and according to the 1990 census 13,935 inhabitants, of whom 13,254 Tibetans and 127 Han Chinese; the rest of the population belongs mainly to the Monba people.

Parts of the district of Cona are de facto controlled by the Indian government and counted there to the state of Arunachal Pradesh . The Chinese government continues to claim all of Cona as part of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Tshangyang Gyatsho , the VI. Dalai Lama, comes from the large community of Dawang , which is in the Indian-controlled part of the district.

Administrative structure

At the municipality level, the district is made up of one large municipality and nine municipalities (four of which are nationalities of the Monba ). These are (official spelling / Chinese):

Ethnic breakdown of the population of Cona (2000)

The 2000 census counted 15,277 inhabitants in Cona.

Name of the people Residents proportion of
Tibetans 14,331 93.81%
Monba 612 4.01%
Han 313 2.05%
Hui 10 0.07%
Others 11 0.07%

literature

  • Guojia cèhuìjú diming yánjiūsuǒ 国家测绘局地名研究所 , Xizang diming 西藏地名 / bod ljongs sa ming བོད་ ལྗོངས་ ས་ མིང (Tibetan place names) , Beijing, Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国藏学出版社 1995, ISBN 7-80057-284 -6 .

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Coordinates: 27 ° 56 '  N , 93 ° 28'  E