Nang County
County in Tibet, China
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Nang County (Tibetan: སྣང་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 朗县) is a county under the jurisdiction of Nyingtri City in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Nang County
朗县 • སྣང་རྫོང་། | |
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Ba'er Qudesi in Nang County | |
  Nang Location of the seat in Tibet  Nang Nang (China) | |
| Coordinates: 29.049°N 93.072°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nyingchi |
| County seat | Nang |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,120 km2 (1,590 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 17,648 |
| • Density | 4.28/km2 (11.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Nang County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 朗县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 朗縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སྣང་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Geography
Nang is located in the south-west of Nyingtri, at the middle and lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. The county seat of Nang County is situated in a region resembling an elephant's trunk, leading to the metaphorical designation of this area as "Nang" which translates to elephant.[2] The average altitude is 5,000 metres above sea level.[3][4]
Administrative divisions
Nang County contains 3 towns and 3 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | |||
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| Towns | |||||||
| Nang Town | 朗镇 | Lǎng zhèn | སྣང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | snang grong rdal | |||
| Dromda Town | 仲达镇 | Zhòngdá zhèn | སྒྲོམ་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgrom mda' grong rdal | |||
| Dungkar Town | 洞嘎镇 | Dònggā zhèn | དུང་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dung dkar grong rdal | |||
| Townships | |||||||
| Latok Township | 拉多乡 | Lāduō xiāng | ལ་ཐོག་ཤང་། | la thog shang | |||
| Kyemtong Township | 金东乡 | Jīndōng xiāng | སྐྱེམས་སྟོང་ཤང་། | skyem stong shang | |||
| Dem Township | 登木乡 | Dēngmù xiāng | ལྡེམ་ཤང་། | ldem shang | |||
* includes areas claimed but currently under control of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. | |||||||
Gallery
Yarlung Tsangpo in Nang County
mudslides
Tibetan goddess of fortune-telling in Ba'er Qudesi
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Transportation
In 1965, the Linzhi-Qiongduo River highway traversed Nang County, and in 2005, the Jiangbei Highway was inaugurated, extending through 18 administrative villages and 2 townships in Nang County. China National Highway 219 also traverses Langxian County. The Lhasa–Nyingchi railway commenced operations in 2021, featuring Nang County station.[5][6]