Nyalam

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Location of Nyalam in the city of Xigazê
The place Zham

Nyalam ( Chinese  聂拉木 县 , Pinyin Nièlāmù Xiàn ; Tibetan གཉའ་ ལམ་ རྫོང་ , Wylie: gnya 'lam rdzong , also Nyalam Dzong ) is a district of the district-free city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . In 1999 it had 14,073 inhabitants, at the end of 2010 around 20,000 inhabitants.

Administrative structure

At the community level, the district consists of two large communities and five communities . These are (pinyin / chin.)

  • Large village Nyalam聂拉木镇
  • Zham Municipality 樟木 镇
Friendship Highway between Zhangmu and Lalung La

Infrastructure

The most important road is the Friendship Highway as part of National Road 318 . It connects Nyalam with Lhasa or via the Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge on the border with Nepal with Kathmandu .

various

The county government is located in Nyalam Municipality (聂拉木 镇). The large community of Zham (樟木 镇Zhangmu Zhen ) (Tib. Dram , nep. Khasa ), one of the two settlement areas of the Sherpa people in China, is located directly on the border with Nepal .

Web links

Commons : Nyalam  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Nyalam  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/downloads/faqs/1999_pop_faq.html
  2. ↑ Nyalam County website of the China Foreigner Guide . Retrieved July 7, 2013.

Coordinates: 28 ° 33 '  N , 86 ° 4'  E