Zanda County

Zanda County (Chinese: 札达县; pinyin: Zhádá Xiàn) or Tsamda County (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང, Wylie: rtsa mda' rdzong, THL: tsa da dzong) is a county in the Ngari Prefecture to the extreme west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the Guge kingdom.

Zanda County
札达县 • རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
County
Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang.
Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang.
Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari Prefecture
CapitalTholing

Zanda or Tsamda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”,[1] an allusion to the grassy river bed of the Sutlej river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in Zanda County's Sutlej basin.[2]

Zanda County is bounded by India's Himachal Pradesh state to the west, Uttarakhand State to the south, Ladakh to the northwest, Gar County to the northeast and Burang County to the southeast.

See also

References
  1. Zanda County, Tibetan Trekking, retrieved 20 July 2021.
  2. Ancient horse skeleton offers glimpse into Tibetan past, horsetalk.co.nz, 25 April 2012.

Further reading
  • Swenson, Karen (19 March 2000). "Echoes of a Fallen Kingdom". New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2013.


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