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Gongbo'gyamda County
Gongbo'gyamda County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	工布江达县
Traditional Chinese	工布江達縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gōngbùjiāngdá Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	kong po rgya mda' rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Gongbo'gyamda Zong

Gongbo'gyamda County

工布江达县 • ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
Gongbo'gyamda County 工布江达县 • ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
County
	Basum Tso
	Gongbo'gyamda Location of the seat in Tibet Gongbo'gyamda Gongbo'gyamda (China)
	Coordinates: 30°23′38″N 93°27′10″E / 30.39389°N 93.45278°E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nyingchi
County seat	Gongbo'gyamda
Area
• Total	12,960.19 km2 (5,003.96 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	32,874
• Density	2.5365/km2 (6.5696/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.gongbujiangda.gov.cn

Gongbo'gyamda County (Tibetan: ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང; Chinese: 工布江达县) is a county of Nyingchi (or Nyingtri) City in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, lying approximately 275 km (171 mi) east of Lhasa at its central point. Its main geographical feature is Basum Tso, a green lake about 3,700 m (12,100 ft) above sea level.

History

In 1587, Gyampo Monastery was established. Subsequently, a town named "Gyamda", meaning "valley outlet of Gyampo", was developed near the monastery. The region was originally under control of Derge Gyalpos. After the Qing Dynasty took over Derge, the region was managed by the Tibetan Government as Gyamda Dzong. In 1960, Gyamda Dzong merged with West Dengke Dzong to form the modern Gongbo'gyamda Dzong.^[2]^[3]

Geography

Gongbo'gyamda County is located in the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to the south of the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, to the north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River and in the area of the middle branches of the Nyang River. With a population of 22,000, the county covers an area of 12,886 square kilometres. The average altitude of the county is 3,500 metres above sea level. Pagsum Lake had an area of 26 square kilometres.^[4]

Administrative divisions

Gongbo'gyamda County contains 3 towns and 6 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Gongbo'gyamda Town	工布江达镇	Gōngbùjiāngdá zhèn	ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	kong po rgya mda' grong rdal
Chimda Town	金达镇	Jīndá zhèn	སྥྱི་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sphyi mda' grong rdal
Zhoka Town	巴河镇	Bāhé zhèn	ཞོ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	zho kha grong rdal
Townships
Drugla Township	朱拉乡	Zhūlā xiāng	འབྲུག་ལ་ཤང་།	'brug la shang
Tsongo Township	错高乡	Cuògāo xiāng	མཚོ་འགོ་ཤང་།	mtsho 'go shang
Drongsar Township	仲萨乡	Zhòngsà xiāng	གྲོང་གསར་ཤང་།	grong gsar shang
Gyamda Township	江达乡	Jiāngdá xiāng	རྒྱ་མདའ་ཤང་།	gya mda' shang
Nyangpo Township	娘蒲乡	Niángpú xiāng	ཉང་པོ་ཤང་།	nyang po shang
Gyashing Township	加兴乡	Jiāxīng xiāng	རྒྱ་ཤིང་ཤང་།	gya shing shang

Villages

Zhongsa Village

References

↑ "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.
↑ "Gyamda" (in Chinese). Chamdo City Government. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
↑ 辉煌的二十世纪新中国大纪录: 西藏卷 (in Chinese). 红旗出版社. 1999. p. 659. ISBN 978-7-5051-0374-0. Retrieved 2025-02-20.
↑ 大西藏之旅. 雲龍叢刊 (in Chinese). 昭明出版社. 2000. p. 299. ISBN 978-986-7938-21-3. Retrieved 2025-02-15.

External links

Gongbo'gyamda County Annals

29°52′59″N 93°14′53″E / 29.883°N 93.248°E / 29.883; 93.248

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[1] "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.

[2] "Gyamda" (in Chinese). Chamdo City Government. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

[p834-3] 辉煌的二十世纪新中国大纪录: 西藏卷 (in Chinese). 红旗出版社. 1999. p. 659. ISBN 978-7-5051-0374-0. Retrieved 2025-02-20.

[j610-4] 大西藏之旅. 雲龍叢刊 (in Chinese). 昭明出版社. 2000. p. 299. ISBN 978-986-7938-21-3. Retrieved 2025-02-15.

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