Nyima County (Tibetan: ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: nyi ma rdzong, ZYPY: Nyima Zong; simplified Chinese: 尼玛县; traditional Chinese: 尼瑪縣; pinyin: Nímǎ Xiàn) is the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.
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Nyima County
尼玛县 • ཉི་མ་རྫོང་། | |
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![]() Location of Nyima County within Tibet (outdated map, shows the situation in 2007, before the establishment of Shuanghu County in 2012) | |
![]() ![]() Nyima Location of the seat in the Tibet AR | |
Coordinates (Nyima County government): 31°47′05″N 87°14′12″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
With an area of 72,499 km2 (27,992 sq mi) and a population of 29,000 (2012), it has an average population density of less than 0.4 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.
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