Bainang County

Bainang County
白朗县པ་སྣམ་རྫོང་།
Location of Bainang County (red) in Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Location of Bainang County (red) in Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Bainang is located in Tibet
Bainang
Bainang
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Bainang is located in China
Bainang
Bainang
Bainang (China)
Coordinates: 28°50′0″N 89°15′34″E / 28.83333°N 89.25944°E / 28.83333; 89.25944
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatNorbu Khyungtse
Area
 • Total2,805.85 km2 (1,083.34 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total44,564
 • Density16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.blx.gov.cn
Bainang County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese白朗县
Traditional Chinese白朗縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཔ་སྣམ་རྫོང་།

Bainang County (Tibetan: པ་སྣམ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 白朗县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]

Administration divisions[edit]

Bainang County is divided into 2 towns and 9 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Norbu Khyungtse Town 洛江镇 Luòjiāng zhèn ནོར་བུ་ཁྱུང་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། nor bu khyung rtse grong rdal
Gadong Town 嘎东镇 Gādōng zhèn སྒ་གདོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། sga gdong grong rdal
Townships
Pältsel Township 巴扎乡 Bāzhā xiāng དཔལ་ཚལ་ཤང་། dpal tshal shang
Mak Township 玛乡 Mǎ xiāng མག་ཤང་། mag shang
Wangden Township 旺丹乡 Wàngdān xiāng དབང་ལྡན་ཤང་། dbang ldan shang
Qunub Township 曲奴乡 Qǔnú xiāng ཆུ་ནུབ་ཤང་། chu nub shang
Düjung Township 杜琼乡 Dùqióng xiāng འདུས་བྱུང་ཤང་། 'dus byung shang
Jangtö Township 强堆乡 Qiángduī xiāng བྱང་སྟོད་ཤང་། byang stod shang
Gabug Township 嘎普乡 Gāpǔ xiāng སྒ་སྦུག་ཤང་། sga sbug shang
Tashar Township 者下乡 Zhěxià xiāng བཀྲ་ཤར་ཤང་། bkra shar shang
Tongshé Township 东喜乡 Dōngxǐ xiāng སྟོང་ཤེ་ཤང་། stong she shang

References[edit]

  1. ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  2. ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.