Zanda County 札达县 •རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་། Tsamda | |
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 Landscape of Zanda, viewed fromTsaparang. | |
.png) Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region | |
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| Coordinates (Zanda County government):31°28′52″N79°48′07″E / 31.481°N 79.802°E /31.481; 79.802 | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County seat | Tholing |
| Area | |
• Total | 24,601.59 km2 (9,498.73 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 8,454 |
| • Density | 0.3436/km2 (0.8900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | zd |
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| Simplified Chinese | 札达县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 札達縣 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||
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Zanda County orTsamda County (Tibetan:རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང,Chinese:札达县) is a county in theNgari Prefecture to the extremewest of theTibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is atTholing, the former capital of theGuge kingdom.
Zanda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”,[2][unreliable source?] an allusion to the grassy river bed of theSutlej river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in Zanda County's Sutlej basin.[3]
Zanda County is bounded by India'sHimachal Pradesh state to the west,Uttarakhand State to the south,Ladakh to the northwest,Gar County to the northeast andBurang County to the southeast.
Zanda county is divided into 1town and 4townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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| Thoding Town (Tholing) | 托林镇 | Tuōlín zhèn | མཐོ་ལྡིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mtho lding grong rdal |
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| Dzarong Township | 萨让乡 | Sàràng xiāng | རྫ་རོང་ཤང་། | rdza rong shang |
| Danbab Township (Daba) | 达巴乡 | Dábā xiāng | མདའ་འབབ་ཤང་། | mda' 'bab shang |
| Diyag Township | 底雅乡 | Dǐyǎ xiāng | ཏི་ཡག་ཤང་། | ti yag shang |
| Qangzê Township | 香孜乡 | Xiāngzī xiāng | བྱང་རྩེ་ཤང་། | byang rtse shang |
| Qusum Township | 曲松乡 | Qǔsōng xiāng | ཆུ་གསུམ་ཤང་། | chu gsum shang |
| Tsosib Sumkyil Township (Churup Sumkhel) | 楚鲁松杰乡 | Chǔlǔsōngjié xiāng | ཚོ་སྲིབ་གསུམ་དཀྱིལ་ཤང་། | tshe srib gsum dkyil shang |
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