Gongbo'gyamda County

Gongbo'gyamda County (Tibetan: ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང; Chinese: 工布江达县) is a county of Nyingchi (or Nyingtri) City in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China lying approximately 275 km (171 mi) east of Lhasa at its central point. Its main geographical feature is Basum Tso, a green lake about 3,700 m (12,100 ft) above sea level.

Gongbo'gyamda County
工布江达县ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
Basum Tso
Basum Tso
Location of Gongbo'gyamda County (red) in Nyingchi City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Gongbo'gyamda County (red) in Nyingchi City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Gongbo'gyamda is located in Tibet
Gongbo'gyamda
Gongbo'gyamda
Location of the seat in Tibet
Gongbo'gyamda is located in China
Gongbo'gyamda
Gongbo'gyamda
Gongbo'gyamda (China)
Coordinates: 30°23′38″N 93°27′10″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNyingchi
County seatGongbo'gyamda
Area
  Total12,960.19 km2 (5,003.96 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
  Total32,874
  Density2.5/km2 (6.6/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.gongbujiangda.gov.cn
Gongbo'gyamda County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese工布江达县
Traditional Chinese工布江達縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་།

History

In 1587, Gyampo Monastery was established. Subsequently, a town named "Gyamda", meaning "valley outlet of Gyampo", was developed near the monastery. The region was originally under control of Derge Gyalpos. After the Qing Dynasty took over Derge, the region was managed by the Tibetan Government as Gyamda Dzong. In 1960, Gyamda Dzong merged with West Dengke Dzong to form the modern Gongbo'gyamda Dzong.[2]

Geography

Gongbo'gyamda County is located in the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to the south of the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, to the north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River and in the area of the middle branches of the Nyang River. With a population of 22,000, the county covers an area of 12,886 square kilometres. The average altitude of the county is 3,500 metres above sea level. The Pagsum Lake, with a total area of 26 square kilometres, is a famous lake.

Transport

Economy and reserves

Water resources are abundant in Gongbo'gyamda County. The species of animals include leopard, red deer, black bear, brown bear, otter, monkey and black-necked crane, etc. There are almost a hundred of species of plants in the county, such as Yartsa Gunbu, fritillaria and snow lotus, etc.

Block raising is the main industry of the county. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway crosses the county. The total length of all roads reaches 380 km (240 mi).

Administrative divisions

Gongbo'gyamda County contains 3 towns and 6 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Gongbo'gyamda Town 工布江达镇 Gōngbùjiāngdá zhèn ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། kong po rgya mda' grong rdal
Chimda Town 金达镇 Jīndá zhèn སྥྱི་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། sphyi mda' grong rdal
Zhoka Town 巴河镇 Bāhé zhèn ཞོ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། zho kha grong rdal
Townships
Drugla Township 朱拉乡 Zhūlā xiāng འབྲུག་ལ་ཤང་། 'brug la shang
Tsongo Township 错高乡 Cuògāo xiāng མཚོ་འགོ་ཤང་། mtsho 'go shang
Drongsar Township 仲萨乡 Zhòngsà xiāng གྲོང་གསར་ཤང་། grong gsar shang
Gyamda Township 江达乡 Jiāngdá xiāng རྒྱ་མདའ་ཤང་། gya mda' shang
Nyangpo Township 娘蒲乡 Niángpú xiāng ཉང་པོ་ཤང་། nyang po shang
Gyashing Township 加兴乡 Jiāxīng xiāng རྒྱ་ཤིང་ཤང་། gya shing shang

Villages

References

  1. "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.
  2. "Gyamda" (in Chinese). Chamdo City Government. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

30°23′38″N 93°27′10″E

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