Nyainrong County

Nyainrong County (Tibetan: སྙན་རོང་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 聂荣县) is a small county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, in the north of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Qinghai province to the north. Yurla is a favourite of the people of the county.[2]

Nyainrong County
聂荣县 • སྙན་རོང་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Nyainrong County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Location of Nyainrong County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Nyainrong is located in Tibet
Nyainrong
Nyainrong
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Nyainrong is located in China
Nyainrong
Nyainrong
Nyainrong (China)
Coordinates (Nyainrong government): 32°06′29″N 92°18′11″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatNyainrong
Area
 • Total9,017 km2 (3,481 sq mi)
Elevation
4,700 m (15,400 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total35,163
 • Density3.9/km2 (10/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code+(086)0896
Websitewww.xznr.gov.cn
Nyainrong County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese聂荣县
Traditional Chinese聶榮縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྙན་རོང་རྫོང་།

Administrative divisions

The county contains the following 1 town and 9 townships:

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Nyainrong Town 聂荣镇 Nièróng zhèn གཉན་རོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། snyan rong grong rdal
Townships
Nyima Township 尼玛乡 Nímǎ xiāng ཉི་མ་ཤང་། nyi ma shang
Serchen Township 色庆乡 Sèqìng xiāng གསེར་ཆེན་ཤང་། gser chen shang
Trolung Township 桑荣乡 Sāngróng xiāng ཁྲོ་ལུང་ཤང་། khrong lung shang
Shakchu Township 下曲乡 Xiàqǔ xiāng ཤག་ཆུ་ཤང་། shog chu shang
Bezhung Township 白雄乡 Báixióng xiāng བེ་གཞུང་ཤང་། be gzhung shang
Sokzhung Township 索雄乡 Suǒxióng xiāng སོག་གཞུང་ཤང་། sog gzhung shang
Damgyang Township
(Damshung)		 当木江乡 Dāngmùjiāng xiāng འདམ་རྒྱང་ཤང་། 'dam rgyang shang
Chadam Township 查当乡 Chádāng xiāng ཁྲ་འདམ་ཤང་། khra 'dam shang
Yongchu Township 永曲乡 Yǒngqǔ xiāng ཡོང་ཆུ་ཤང་། yong chu shang

References
  1. "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
  2. Li, Tao; Jiang, Hongying (2003). Tibetan customs. China Intercontinental Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-7-5085-0254-0. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
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