Zanda County (Chinese: 札达县; pinyin: Zhádá Xiàn) or Tsamda County (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང, Wylie: rtsa mda' rdzong, THL: tsa da dzong) is a county in the Ngari Prefecture to the extreme west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the Guge kingdom.

Zanda County 札达县 • རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
County
Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang.
Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari Prefecture
Capital	Tholing

Zanda or Tsamda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”,[1] an allusion to the grassy river bed of the Sutlej river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda Horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in the Zanda County's Sutlej basin.[2]

The Zanda County is bounded by India's Himachal Pradesh state to the west, Uttarakhand State to the south, Ladakh to the northwest, the Gar County to the northeast and the Burang County to the southeast.

See also

• Tsaparang
• Chepzi

References

Further reading

• Swenson, Karen (19 March 2000). "Echoes of a Fallen Kingdom". New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2013.

External links

• Sutlej river flowing through the Zanda County, OpenStreetMap, retrieved 20 July 2021.

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