Nyingchi

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
ཉིང་ ཁྲི་ ས་ཁུལ་
Wylie transliteration :
nying khri sa khul
Official transcription of the PRCh :
Nyingchi
THDL transcription :
Nyingtri
Other spellings:
Nyingthri
Chinese name
Traditional :
林芝 市
Simplified :
林芝 市
Pinyin :
Linzhī Shì
Location of Nyingchi (yellow) in Tibet (light gray)

Nyingchi ( Tibetan : ཉིང་ ཁྲི་ ས་ཁུལ་ , Nyingthri , transcription after Wylie : nying khri sa khul; Chinese : 林芝 市, Línzhī shì ) is a district-free city in the southeast of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China . It has an area of ​​116,175 km² and about 140,000 inhabitants.

Administrative structure

The Nyingchi Governorate was formed in October 1959. In 1964 it was placed under direct administration from Lhasa . In 1986 a separate administrative center was created again. On October 9, 2005, the Nyingchi District Government was relocated to Bayi (八一 镇). On March 18, 2015, the Nyingchi Governorate was dissolved and the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi was established on its territory.

traffic

With the Sichuan-Tibet Railway , which is currently under construction , the city is expected to be connected to the Chinese railway network in 2021.

Surname Tibetan Wylie Chinese Pinyin
Bayi Municipality བྲག་ ཡིབ་ གྲོང་ ཆུས ། brgyad gcig 巴 宜 区 Bāyí Qū
Gongbo'gyamda County ཀོང་ པོ་ རྒྱ་ མདའ་ རྫོང་ kong po rgya mda 'rdzong 工 布 江 达县 Gōngbùjiāngdá Xiàn
Mainling district སྨན་ གླིང་ རྫོང་ sman gling rdzong 米林县 Mǐlín Xiàn
Mêdog district མེ་ཏོག་ རྫོང་ me tog rdzong 墨脱 县 Mòtuō Xiàn
Bomê district སྤོ་ མེས་ རྫོང་ spo mes rdzong 波密 县 Bōmì Xiàn
Zayü district རྫ་ ཡུལ་ རྫོང་ rdza yul rdzong 察隅 县 Cháyú Xiàn
Nang Dzong County སྣང་ རྫོང་ snang rdzong 朗 县 Long Xiàn

Conflict with India

Parts of the circles Medog and Zayu in Nyingchi and parts of the circle Cona and the south of the district Lhünzê in the district of Shannan be considered by the Chinese government as part of its territory, but are de facto under the control of India , where these areas for State Arunachal Pradesh counted become.

The conflict goes back to the Shimla Convention of 1914 and led to an Indo-Chinese border war in October / November 1962 .

literature

  • Zhāng Xiǎomíng 张晓明 : Línzhī 林芝 (Beijing, Wǔzhōu chuánbō chūbǎnshè 五洲 传播 出版社 2000), ISBN 7-80113-399-4 .

Coordinates: 29 ° 38 '  N , 94 ° 22'  E