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Burang County (Standard Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང;[3] Chinese: 普兰县; pinyin: Pǔlán Xiàn), also called Purang, is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China. The county seat is Burang Town, known as Taklakot in Nepali.[4] The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of 9,657 as of 2010.[1][2]

Burang County སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང · 普兰县
County
Gurla Mandhata 7,694 metres (25,243 ft)
Location of Burang County within Tibet
Coordinates (Burang County government): 30°17′25″N 81°10′38″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari
Seat	Burang Town
Area [1]
• Total	12,539 km2 (4,841 sq mi)
Population  (2010)[2]
• Total	9,657
• Density	0.77/km2 (2.0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	859500
Website	http://pl.al.gov.cn/

Burang County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	普兰县
Traditional Chinese	普蘭縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Pǔlán Xiàn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping pou2laan4 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང
Transcriptions Wylie spu hreng rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Burang Zong

Geography

Political geography

Burang County has TAR's south-western border with Nepal's Sudurpashchim and Karnali province, Darchula, Bajhang and Humla District.^{[citation needed]} Further west, India's Uttarakhand State, Pithoragarh district and Chamoli district borders.^{[citation needed]} Buddhist, Hindu and Jain pilgrims going to Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash enter from Nepal via Simikot,[5] and from India via Dharchula.[6]

The county is bounded by other counties in the Ngari Prefecture, including Zanda to the west, Gar to the northwest and Gê'gyai to the north.[1] To the east is Zhongba County of Shigatse Prefecture.[1]

Physical geography

The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of some 9,058 people as of 2010.[1][2] The county seat, located in the Jirang Neighborhood Committee,[1] is located only 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Nepalese territory, and 450 kilometres (280 mi) north-west of Kathmandu.^{[citation needed]} It is an important Chinese customs point between Tibet, Nepal and India.^{[citation needed]} Much of the county consists of river valleys of mountains and lakes such as Kangrinboqê (also known as Mount Kailash), The Naimonany Peak Gunrla and Lake Maponen Yamco Lake Manasarowar.^{[citation needed]} The Karnali River is also a prominent geographical feature of the landscape.^{[citation needed]} Wildlife commonly seen in the far south-western Tibetan county are wild donkeys, wild yaks, yellow goats, antelope, rock goat, lynxes, foxes, leopards and marmots.^{[citation needed]}

Climate

The annual average temperature in the county is −3.5 °C (25.7 °F), and annual precipitation averages 100 mm (3.9 in).[1] Bomê has a monsoon-influenced oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cwb). The average annual temperature in Bomê is 9.0 °C (48.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 890.9 mm (35.07 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 16.9 °C (62.4 °F), and lowest in January, at around 0.7 °C (33.3 °F).

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into Burang Town, Parga Township [zh], and Hor Township.[1] The county government is seated in the Jirang Neighborhood Committee in Burang Town.[1]

History

Some historians believe that Tegla kar (Lying Tiger fort) near Burang was built during the Zhangzhung dynasty which was conquered by the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo in the early 7th century CE.^{[citation needed]} It became the main fort of the Burang (Purang) Kingdom, in the 10th century under King Kori, one of the two sons of Tashi Gon, King of the Guge Kingdom.^{[citation needed]} The Guge and Burang kingdoms were separated about the late 11th century, when king Logtsha Tsensong founded an independent realm.^{[citation needed]} In about 1330 the 13th king Sonam De took over the important Khasa Malla kingdom (alias Yatse; not to be confused with the Malla dynasty of central Nepal) in western Nepal on the extinction of the local dynasty.^{[citation needed]} The dynasty of Burang kings died out shortly before 1376.^{[citation needed]} The territory was subsequently dominated in turns by the neighbouring kingdoms Guge and Mustang.[8]

Economy

In 2010, the county reported a GDP of 140 million Renminbi, fiscal revenue of 4.27 million Renminbi, and retail sales totaling 26.97 million Renminbi.[9]

Burang is an important barley-growing region and traditionally barley and salt from the salt lakes to the north of Taklakot made up the bulk of the trade to the south, while rice and a wide range of luxuries were traded back into Tibet from Nepal.^{[citation needed]} The local villagers (known as Burangbas) carried the produce across the ranges into Nepal on caravans of sheep and goats during the summer and autumn.[10] Sheep and goats are fitted with double packs which can carry up to 30 kg (70 lb) of barley or salt on the 3 week journey to the terai or low-lands of Nepal.[11] In winter and early spring the region is often in total isolation, cut off by heavy snow falls.^{[citation needed]}

Transport

China National Highway 219 passes through the county.[1]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Burang County

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[ru] Буранг (уезд)

Буранг (тиб. སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང, Вайли: spu hreng rdzong, кит. упр. 普兰县, пиньинь Pǔlán xiàn) — уезд в округе Нгари, Тибетский автономный район, КНР.

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