Zhongba

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
འབྲོང་ པ་ རྫོང །
Wylie transliteration :
'brong pa rdzong
Official transcription of the PRCh :
Zhongba
THDL transcription :
Drongpa
Chinese name
Simplified :
仲巴 县
Pinyin :
Zhòngbā Xiàn
Location of Zhongba County (pink) in the administrative area of ​​the city of Xigazê (yellow)

The county Zhongba ( Tibetan : འབྲོང་ པ་ རྫོང་ , Wylie transliteration : 'brong pa rdzong even Drongpa Dzong ) is in the northwest of the prefecture-level city Shigatse in Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . It has an area of ​​43,594 km² and 19,493 inhabitants (at the end of 2007).

Zhongba roughly covers the area of ​​the Zhadün ( 扎 东 ) district, which existed until around 1960 . The main town of the same name is now a small collection of z. Some of the abandoned houses and the Zhadün ( 扎 东 寺 ) monastery , in the administrative area of ​​Tangxi village ( 唐西 村 ) in Labranggosa municipality .

The seat of the district government of Zhongbas, the municipality of Labranggosa, consists of administrative buildings, quarters of the People's Liberation Army , a large school for the children of the nomads belonging to the district, shops and some hotels, which are frequented in particular by travelers to or from Ngari .

Administrative structure

At the community level, the district consists of one large community and twelve communities . These are (official spelling / Chinese):

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literature

  • Karl-Heinz Everding: Tibet. Lamaistic monastery culture, nomadic ways of life and everyday rural life on the roof of the world . Dumont Reise Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7701-4803-5 .

Footnotes

  1. a b Guójiā cèhuìjú dìmíng yánjiūsuǒ 国家 测绘 局 地名 研究所 (ed.): Zhōngguó dìmínglù - Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó dìtújí suǒyǐn 《中国 地 名录 —— 》中华人民共和国 地图集 索引 索引 ——》 . Zhōngguó dìtúchū bǎnshè 中国 地图 出版社 , Beijing 1997, p. 297.
  2. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/downloads/faqs/1999_pop_faq.html

Coordinates: 29 ° 46 '  N , 84 ° 2'  E