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    The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo (Tibetan: ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་, Wylie: yar kLungs gTsang po, ZYPY: Yarlung Zangbo) and Yalu Zangbu River (Chinese:...
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  • Look up Yarlung Tsangpo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yarlung can refer to: Yarlung Kingdom, see also: Tibetan empire Yarlung Dynasty, see also:...
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  • Thumbnail for Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
    The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, also known as the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, the Tsangpo Canyon, the Brahmaputra Canyon or the Tsangpo Gorge (simplified...
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    The Yarlung dynasty (Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་གདོད་མའི་མངའ་མཛད།; Chinese: 雅礱王朝), or Pre-Imperial Tibet, was a proto-historical dynasty in Tibet before the rise...
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    The Yarlung Valley is formed by Yarlung Chu, a tributary of the Tsangpo River in the Shannan Prefecture in the Tibet region of China. It refers especially...
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  • Thumbnail for Indus-Yarlung suture zone
    The Indus-Yarlung suture zone or the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo suture is a tectonic suture in southern Tibet and across the north margin of the Himalayas which...
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    India, and Bangladesh. It is known as Brahmaputra or Luit in Assamese, Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, and Jamuna River...
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    Main Himalayan Thrust. ISZ, also called Indus-Yarlung suture zone, Yarlung-Zangpo Suture Zone or Yarlung-Tsangpo Suture Zone, defines the zone of collision...
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  • The traditional list of the ancient Yarlung dynasty's Tibetan kings consists of 42 names. The earliest kings ruled before the Tibetan language was developed...
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    Mekong, Ganges, Salween and the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra River). The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, along the Yarlung Tsangpo River, is among the...
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  • Thumbnail for Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe
    The Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1022) covers the river valley of the Yarlung Tsangpo River on the southern edge of Tibet. The river...
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    Siyom River on the international border NE into Tibet to the canyon of the Yarlung Tsangpo (the Brahmaputra in India), where the Himalaya are said to end...
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    Bay of Bengal. The Yarlung dynasty was founded in 127 BCE in the Yarlung Valley along the Yarlung River, south of Lhasa. The Yarlung capital was moved...
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  • Thumbnail for Namcha Barwa
    Tibet rarely visited by outsiders. It stands inside the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River as the river enters its notable gorge across the Himalaya...
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    somewhat well-defined rim elevation). The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon (or Tsangpo Canyon), along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, is regarded by some...
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    west–east direction parallel to the main Himalayan range. Located north of Yarlung Tsangpo river on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, the Transhimalaya...
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  • Thumbnail for Drainage system (geomorphology)
    Dendritic drainage: the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet, seen from space: snow cover has melted in the valley system....
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  • Thumbnail for List of rulers of Tibet
    Part of a series on the History of Tibet Neolithic Tibet Zhangzhung Yarlung dynasty Tibetan Empire Era of Fragmentation Yuan rule Phagmodrupa dynasty...
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    eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, lies immediately west of the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. The range varies in width from 350 km (220 mi) in the west...
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    population density of 3 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.8/sq mi). Yarlung kings founded the Tibetan Empire in 618. By the end of the 8th century...
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  • areas: The southern part of Tibet, covering the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Valley between Saga County to the west and Mainling County...
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  • Thumbnail for Friendship Highway (China–Nepal)
    (40 mi) up to the confluence with the Yarlung Tsangpo River at Chushul. The main route continues along the Yarlung valley up to Shigatse, Tibet's second-largest...
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  • Thumbnail for Ashok Singhal (politician)
    highlighted a series of Chinese hydro-power projects on the Yarlung Tsangpo (also called Yarlung Zangbo in China and Brahmaputra in India), through satellite...
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    range is parallel to the Himalayas in the Transhimalayas, and north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Another source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains extend...
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    originators of the Bon religion. While mythical accounts of early rulers of the Yarlung Dynasty exist, historical accounts begin with the introduction of Buddhism...
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    thus in the traditional view of the Himalayas as bounded by the Indus and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra rivers, it is the western anchor of the entire mountain...
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    discography at Discogs Neville Marriner at IMDb Works by Neville Marriner at Open Library Lincoln Christ's Hospital School Neville Marriner at Yarlung Artists...
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    became the leader of the Tibetan Empire that had risen to power in the Yarlung Tsangpo River (whose lower reaches in India is known as the Brahmaputra...
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    political and economic perspectives. They are centered on the valley of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows eastward at about 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) above...
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  • Thumbnail for List of largest hydroelectric power stations
    China is said to have been working on a 50,000 MW dam as part of the Yarlung Tsangpo Hydroelectric and Water Diversion Project. Another proposal, Penzhin...
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