Zhongba County

Zhongba County
仲巴县 • འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།
Drongpa
County
Location of Zhongba County (red) in Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Location of Zhongba County (red) in Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Zhongba is located in Tibet
Zhongba
Zhongba
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Zhongba is located in China
Zhongba
Zhongba
Zhongba (China)
Coordinates: 29°46′12″N 84°01′53″E / 29.77000°N 84.03139°E / 29.77000; 84.03139
CountryChina
Autonomous RegionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShigatse
County seatLabrang (Drongpa)
Area
 • Total43,602.92 km2 (16,835.18 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total26,897
 • Density0.62/km2 (1.6/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.zbx.gov.cn
Zhongba County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese仲巴县
Traditional Chinese仲巴縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanའབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།

Drongpa County[2][3] or Zhongba County[4] (Tibetan: འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང; Chinese: 仲巴县) is a county of Shigatse Prefecture in China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Located in the western part of Central Tibet (sometimes referred to as "western Tibet"), it is the birthplace of the Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra).[5] Zhongba is said to mean "place of wild yaks" in Tibetan. The county seat is at Labrang, which is also called the "Drongpa Township".

Geography

Drongpa County is the largest county in the Shigatse Prefecture by geographical area.[6] It has a population of approximately 18,000 and covers 43,594 square kilometers. It is prone to earthquakes and suffered a large one, 6.8 on the Richter scale, on 30 August 2008. Although the temblor left a 10 km (6.2 mi) north-south crack at the epicenter located at 31° north and 83.6° east, and houses were damaged and roads blocked by falling rocks, there were no reported injuries.[7] The county is dotted with lakes such as Taro Tso, Nganglha Ringtso and Rinchen Shubtso.

Drongpa County shares the Tibet Autonomous Region's southern border with most of western Nepal's Karnali and Dhaulagiri Zones with a border crossing into Mustang District leading through the former Lo Kingdom to its historic capital Lo Manthang.

Administration divisions

Zhongba County is divided into 1 town and 12 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Baryang Town
(Paryang) 		帕羊镇 Pàyáng zhèn བར་ཡངས་གྲོང་རྡལ། bar yangs grong rdal
Townships
Labrang Township
(Drongpa) 		拉让乡 Lāràng xiāng ལ་བྲང་ཤང་། la brang shang
Qonkor Township 琼果乡 Qióngguǒ xiāng ཆོས་འཁོར་ཤང་། chos 'khor shang
Yagra Township 亚热乡 Yàrè xiāng ཡག་ར་ཤང་། yag ra shang
Bodoi Township 布多乡 Bùduō xiāng སྤོ་སྟོད་ཤང་། spo stod shang
Penchi Township 偏吉乡 Piānjí xiāng ཕན་ཕྱི་ཤང་། phen phyi shang
Nagqu Township 纳久乡 Nàjiǔ xiāng ནག་ཆུ་ཤང་། nag chu shang
Gêla Township 吉拉乡 Jílā xiāng སྐེད་ལ་ཤང་། sked la shang
Horpa Township 霍尔巴乡 Huò'ěrbā xiāng ཧོར་པ་ཤང་། hor pa shang
Lunggar Township 隆嘎尔乡 Lónggā'ěr xiāng ལུང་དཀར་ཤང་། lung dkar shang
Gyêma Township 吉玛乡 Jímǎ xiāng སྐྱེ་མ་ཤང་། skye ma shang
Rintor Township 仁多乡 Rénduō xiāng རི་འཐོར་ཤང་། ri 'thor shang
Barma Township
(Pama) 		帕江乡 Pàjiāng xiāng བར་མ་ཤང་། bar ma shang

Maps

  • Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (AMS, 1954)
    Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (AMS, 1954)
  • Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (DMA, 1985)
    Map showing "Matsang" and the southern portion bordering Nepal (DMA, 1985)

Transport

China National Highway 219

References

  1. ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
  2. ^ Tibet 2002: A Year Book, Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
  3. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 334.
  4. ^ Jianglin Li (2022). When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet. Stanford University Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-5036-2979-0.
  5. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 256.
  6. ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  7. ^ "Strong earthquake in Tibet leaves no casualties, but big crack". Xinhua News Agency. 2008-08-30. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.

Bibliography

  • Dorje, Gyurme (2004), Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (3rd ed.), Bath: Footprint Handbooks, ISBN 1-903471-30-3 – via archive.org
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