Zhongba County

Drongpa County[1][2] or Zhongba County[3] (Tibetan: འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་, Wylie: `brong pa rdzong, THL: drong pa dzong, ZYPY: Zhongba Zong; Chinese: 仲巴县; pinyin: Zhōngbā Xiàn; lit. 'Place of Wild Yaks') 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).[4] The county seat is at Labrang, which is also called the Drongpa Town (Zhongba Xian).

Drongpa County
仲巴县 • འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།
County
Zhongba 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 Ngari
Zhongba
Zhongba
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Coordinates: 29°46′12″N 84°01′53″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous RegionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShigatse
SeatLabrang
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Geography

Drongpa County is the largest county in the Shigatse Prefecture by geographical area. 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.[5] The county is dotted with lakes such as Taruo Lake, Ang Laren Lake and Renqingxiubu Lake.

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.

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)

Town and townships
  • Baryang Town (བར་ཡངས་, 帕羊镇)
  • Labrang Township (ལ་བྲང་, 拉让乡)
  • Bodoi Township (སྤོ་སྟོད་, 布多乡)
  • Gêla Township (སྐེད་ལ་, 吉拉乡)
  • Gyêma Township (སྐྱེ་མ་, 吉玛乡)
  • Horpa Township (ཧོར་པ་, 霍尔巴乡)
  • Lunggar Township (ལུང་དཀར་, 隆嘎尔乡)
  • Nagqu Township (ནག་ཆུ་, 纳久乡)
  • Penchi Township (ཕན་ཕྱི་, 偏吉乡)
  • Barma Township (བར་མ་, 帕玛乡)
  • Qonkor Township (ཆོས་འཁོར་, 琼果乡)
  • Rintor Township (རི་འཐོར་, 仁多乡)
  • Yagra Township (ཡག་ར་, 亚热乡)

Transport

China National Highway 219

Footnotes
  1. Tibet 2002: A Year Book, Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
  2. Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 334.
  3. 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.
  4. Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 256.
  5. "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


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