Nyima County
Nyima County
尼玛县 • ཉི་མ་རྫོང་། | |
|---|---|
 Location of Nyima County (pale green, #9AFF00) in Nagqu | |
  Nyima Location of the seat in the Tibet AR  Nyima Nyima (China) | |
| Coordinates (Nyima County government): 31°47′05″N 87°14′12″E / 31.7847°N 87.2368°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
| County seat | Nyima |
| Area | |
| • Total | 72,532.12 km2 (28,004.81 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 33,006 |
| • Density | 0.46/km2 (1.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Nyima County | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 尼玛县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 尼玛縣 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ཉི་མ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
| |||||||
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 km2 (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
[edit]The county is divided into 1 town and 13 townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
[edit]-
Location of Nyima County within Tibet (outdated map, shows the situation in 2007, before the establishment of Shuanghu County in 2012) -
Map including part of southern Nyima County (ATC, 1970) -
.png)
References
[edit]- ^ "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.
| District |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Counties | ||
| Towns and villages |
| |
| Geography | ||
 | This Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |