Tingri County or Dhringgri County (Tibetan: དིང་རི་རྫོང་།, Wylie: ding ri rdzong, ZYPY: Tingri Zong; Chinese: 定日县; pinyin: Dìngrì Xiàn), is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Tingri County
定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་། | |
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Tingri County Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
Coordinates (Tingri County government, Shelkar): 28°39′32″N 87°07′34″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
Seat | Shelkar |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries plus the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas including Mount Everest (Tib. Chomolungma), Makalu and Cho Oyu. The present county administration is located at Shelkar, about 87 km (54 mi) east of Tingri (town).[1]
It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Tingri, Dinjie, Nyalam, and Kyirong).[2]
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