Burang
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Tibetan script :
སྤུ་ ཧྲེང་ རྫོང
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Wylie transliteration : spu hreng rdzong
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Burang
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THDL transcription : -
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Other spellings: Purang
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Traditional :
普蘭 縣
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Simplified :
普兰 县
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Pinyin : Pǔlán Xiàn
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Burang County ( Tibetan སྤུ་ ཧྲེང་ རྫོང , transcription from Wylie : spu hreng rdzong , also Purang Dzong ) has an area of 13,179 km² and is located in the administrative district of Ngari , in the southwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . Burang is also the name of the seat of the county government, the greater community Burang. The old trading post Burang is also known by the Indians and Nepalese as Taklakot .
Administrative division and population
Burang County, founded in 1960, is made up of a large parish and two parishes . These are:
- Greater community Burang (普兰镇), 5,026 inhabitants (2000 census);
- Baga municipality (巴嘎 乡), population 1,208 (2000 census);
- Hor (霍尔 乡) parish , population 1,685 (2000 census).
For the whole district, the census in 2000 counted 7,919 inhabitants (2003 estimate: 10,000), while for 1999 it was still 7,653.
Ethnic breakdown of the population of Burang (2000)
In the 2000 census, Burang counted 7,919 inhabitants.
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Tibetans | 7,654 | 96.65% |
| Han | 253 | 3.19% |
| Uighurs | 7th | 0.09% |
| Others | 5 | 0.06% |
Attractions
One of its attractions is the Khorchag Monastery , which has been a national monument since 2001 and was built in 996.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ xzqh.org: 普兰 县 ( Memento from September 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (Chinese)
- ↑ National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
Coordinates: 30 ° 39 ' N , 81 ° 27' E