Tsosib Sumkyil Township

Tsosib Sumkyil (Tibetan: ཚོ་སྲིབ་གསུམ་དཀྱིལ, Wylie: tsho srib gsum dkyil, THL: tso sip sum kyil) or Churup Sumkhel (Tibetan: སུ་རུ་གསུམ་འཁྱིལ, Wylie: su ru gsum 'khyil, THL: su ru sum khyil) is the westernmost township of the Zanda County in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet region of China.[1] It borders India's Spiti region in Himachal Pradesh as well as Rupshu region in Ladakh. The region is watered by the Pare Chu river, a tributary of the Spiti River and an upstream tributary of the Sutlej river. China has ongoing border disputes with India for the southwestern border of the region near Kaurik and the northern border near Chumar.

Tsosib Sumkyil
ཚོ་སྲིབ་གསུམ་དཀྱིལ
Churup Sumkhel, Chulusongjie
Tsosib Sumkyil is located in China
Tsosib Sumkyil
Tsosib Sumkyil
Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates: 32°6′N 78°42′E
CountryChina
RegionTibet Autonomous Region
PrefectureNgari
CountyZanda
Population
 • Total
     • Major Nationalities
    		Tibetan
     • Regional dialect
    		Tibetan language
    Time zone+8

    Name

    The township is named after two villages, both of which appear to have two native names.

    Tsosib (Tibetan: ཚོ་སྲིབ, Wylie: tsho srib, THL: tso sip, also spelt Tsosip, Cosib and Cosip) or Churup (Tibetan: སུ་རུ, Wylie: su ru, THL: su ru, also spelt Tsurup) is a border village on the bank of Pare Chu just before the river enters the Indian Spiti district (32.1131°N 78.7114°E / 32.1131; 78.7114 (Tsosib)).

    Sumkyil or Sumkhel (Tibetan: གསུམ་དཀྱིལ, Wylie: gsum dkyil, THL: sum kyil or Tibetan: གསུམ་འཁྱིལ, Wylie: gsum 'khyil, THL: sum khyil, also spelt Sumkyi, Sumgyi, Somgyi and Sonjie) is a farming village on a tributary of Pare Chu called Sumkyil Chu. (32.1467°N 78.7766°E / 32.1467; 78.7766 (Sumkyil)).

    The Sumkyil Chu stream flows through a wide enough valley to support several farming villages along its course, including Manja (Chinese: 曼扎; pinyin: Màn zhā), Tuntun (Chinese: 顿堆; pinyin: Dùn duī) and Azire (Chinese: 阿孜热; pinyin: Ā zī rè). The reference to Sumkyil in the name of the township could be also to the entire Sumkyil valley.

    The historical name of the region was Tsotso,[2][3] or Tocho.[4]

    Geography

    The region of the Tsosib Sumkyil Township is entirely mountainous, with the western parts belonging to the Zanskar Range and the eastern parts belonging to the Ladakh Range. The Pare Chu river flows between the two, entering the region from Rupshu in the north. Several tributaries drain into the river from both the sides, with the Sumkyil Chu being one of the last. The Sumkyil Chu valley is well-populated with several farming villages dotting the valley. After the junction with Sumkyil Chu, the Pare Chu river flows southwest and enters Indian territory between Tsosib and Kaurik.

    See also

    Notes

      References
      1. "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Ngari prefecture". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03.
      2. Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet (1854), p. 13:.
      3. Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890, p. 654 – via archive.org
      4. Report of the Officials (1962), p. 72.

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