Nyima County
Nyima County (Tibetan: ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 尼玛县) is the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.
With an area of 62,349 km (24,073 sq mi) and a population of 33,006 (2020), it has an average population density of approximately 0.53 people per square kilometre.
It is situated in the central-northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, between Nagqu's Shuanghu County to the east and Ngari's Gêrzê County to the west.
Administrative divisions
The county is divided into 1 town and 13 townships:
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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Town | ||||
Nyima Town | 尼玛镇 | Nímǎ zhèn | ཉི་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nyi ma grong rdal |
Townships | ||||
Dro'nyin Township | 卓尼乡 | Zhuóní xiāng | འགྲོ་ཉིན་ཤང་། | 'gro nyin shang |
Targo Township | 达果乡 | Dáguǒ xiāng | བསྟར་སྒོ་ཤང་། | bstar sgo shang |
Aso Township | 阿索乡 | Ãsuǒ xiāng | ཨ་གསོ་ཤང་། | a gso shang |
Rongma Township | 荣玛乡 | Róngmǎ xiāng | རོང་མ་ཤང་། | rong ma shang |
Drongtsang Township | 中仓乡 | Zhōngcāng xiāng | གྲོང་ཚང་ཤང་། | grong tshang shang |
Latö Township | 来多乡 | Láiduō xiāng | ལ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | la stod shang |
Sin'ya Township | 申亚乡 | Shēnyà xiāng | སྲིན་ཡ་ཤང་། | srin ya shang |
Drowa Township | 卓瓦乡 | Zhuówǎ xiāng | གྲོ་བ་ཤང་། | gro ba shang |
Ngochu Township | 俄久乡 | Éjiǔ xiāng | སྔོ་ཆུ་ཤང་། | sngo chu shang |
Ombu Township | 文布乡 | Wénbù xiāng | ཨོམ་བུ་ཤང་། | om bu shang |
Gyagok Township | 甲谷乡 | Jiǎgǔ xiāng | རྒྱ་སྒོག་ཤང་། | rgya sgog shang |
Kyungtsang Township | 军仓乡 | Jūncāng xiāng | སྐྱུང་ཚང་ཤང་། | skyung tshang shang |
Kyelwa Township | 吉瓦乡 | Jíwǎ xiāng | སྐྱེལ་བ་ཤང་། | skyel ba shang |
Gallery
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Location of Nyima County within Tibet (outdated map, shows the situation in 2007, before the establishment of Shuanghu County in 2012)
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Map including part of southern Nyima County (ATC, 1970)
References
- ^ "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.