Comai County

Comai County (Tibetan: མཚོ་སྨད་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 措美县) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Comai County
措美县མཚོ་སྨད་རྫོང་།
Location of Comai County (red) in Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Location of Comai County (red) in Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Comai is located in Tibet
Comai
Comai
Location of the seat in Tibet
Comai is located in China
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Comai (China)
Coordinates: 28°26′18″N 91°26′01″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShannan (Lhoka)
County seatComai
Area
  Total4,177.21 km2 (1,612.83 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
  Total12,132
  Density2.9/km2 (7.5/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.cuomei.gov.cn
Comai County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese措美县
Traditional Chinese措美縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanམཚོ་སྨད་རྫོང་།
Trigu Tsho (1954)

Comai County is famous for its Tibetan Mastiffs and known as the home of Tibetan Mastiff.

Tibetan Mastiff is 24-28 inches tall (at shoulder) and weighs 140-180 pounds. The dog is commonly found wearing a red yak's-hair collar.

Administrative divisions

Comai County contains 2 towns and 2 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Comai Town 措美镇 Cuòměi zhèn མཚོ་སམད་གྲོང་རྡལ། mtsho smad grong rdal
Drigu Town 哲古镇 Zhégǔ zhèn གྲི་གུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། gri gu grong rdal
Townships
Naixi Township 乃西乡 Nǎixī xiāng གནས་བཞི་ཤང་། gnas bzhi shang
Godü Township 古堆乡 Gǔduī xiāng སྒོ་བསྡུས་ཤང་། sgo bsdus shang

References

  1. "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.


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