Zhag'yab County (Tibetan: བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང, Wylie: brag g.yab rdzong, THL: drak yap dzong་; Chinese: 察雅县; pinyin: Chá yǎ xiàn), also spelled Dragyab,[2] Chagyab, Draya,[3] and Chaya,[2] is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Zhag'yab County
察雅县 • བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Location of Zhag'yab County within Tibet | |
  Zhag'yab County Location in Tibet  Zhag'yab County Zhag'yab County (China) | |
| Coordinates: 30°39′22″N 97°34′01″E / 30.656°N 97.567°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Chamdo |
| County seat | Yêndum |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,255.59 km2 (3,187.50 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 57,065 |
| • Density | 6.9/km2 (18/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | chaya |
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| Simplified Chinese | 察雅县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 察雅縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Administrative divisions
editZhag'yab County is divided in 3 towns and 10 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Yêndum Town | 烟多镇 | Yānduō zhèn | དབྱེན་འདུམ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbyen 'dum grong rdal | ||
| Jamdün Town | 香堆镇 | Xiāngduī zhèn | བྱངས་མདུན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | byangs mdun grong rdal | ||
| Gyithang Town | 吉塘镇 | Jítáng zhèn | དཀྱིལ་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dkyil thang grong rdal | ||
| Townships | ||||||
| Zangsar Township | 宗沙乡 | Zōngshā xiāng | གཙང་གསར་ཤང་། | gtsang gsar shang | ||
| Kargong Township | 卡贡乡 | Kǎgòng xiāng | མཁར་སྒང་ཤང་། | mkhar sgang shang | ||
| Rangzhub Township | 荣周乡 | Róngzhōu xiāng | རང་གྲུང་ཤང་། | rang grung shang | ||
| Pelri Township | 巴日乡 | Bārì xiāng | དཔལ་རི་ཤང་། | dpal ri shang | ||
| Acur Township | 阿孜乡 | Ãzī xiāng | ཝ་མཁར་ཤང་། | a tshur shang | ||
| Wakhar Township | 王卡乡 | Wángkǎ xiāng | ཨ་ཚུར་ཤང་། | wa mkhar shang | ||
| Shingka Township | 新卡乡 | Xīnkǎ xiāng | ཤིང་དཀའ་ཤང་། | shin dka' shang | ||
| Khentang Township | 肯通乡 | Kěntōng xiāng | འཁན་ཐང་ཤང་། | 'khan thang shang | ||
| Korra Township | 扩达乡 | Kuòdá xiāng | འཁོར་རྭ་ཤང་། | 'khor rwa shang | ||
| Cala Township (Calamdo) |
察拉乡 | Chálā xiāng | ཚྭ་ལ་ཤང་། | tswa la shang | ||
References
edit- ^ "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
- ^ a b Tibet 2002: A Year Book, Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
- ^ Mehra, Parshotam (1974). The McMahon Line and After: A Study of the Triangular Contest on India's North-eastern Frontier Between Britain, China and Tibet, 1904-47. Macmillan. pp. 67–68. ISBN 9780333157374 – via archive.org.
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