Nyima County (Tibetan: ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 尼玛县) is the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.

With an area of 62,349 km2 (24,073 sq mi) and a population of 33,006 (2020), it has an average population density of approximately 0.53 people per square kilometre.

It is situated in the central-northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, between Nagqu's Shuanghu County to the east and Ngari's Gêrzê County to the west.

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into 1 town and 13 townships:

NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylie
Town
Nyima Town尼玛镇Nímǎ zhènཉི་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།nyi ma grong rdal
Townships
Dro'nyin Township卓尼乡Zhuóní xiāngའགྲོ་ཉིན་ཤང་།'gro nyin shang
Targo Township达果乡Dáguǒ xiāngབསྟར་སྒོ་ཤང་།bstar sgo shang
Aso Township阿索乡Ãsuǒ xiāngཨ་གསོ་ཤང་།a gso shang
Rongma Township荣玛乡Róngmǎ xiāngརོང་མ་ཤང་།rong ma shang
Drongtsang Township中仓乡Zhōngcāng xiāngགྲོང་ཚང་ཤང་།grong tshang shang
Latö Township来多乡Láiduō xiāngལ་སྟོད་ཤང་།la stod shang
Sin'ya Township申亚乡Shēnyà xiāngསྲིན་ཡ་ཤང་།srin ya shang
Drowa Township卓瓦乡Zhuówǎ xiāngགྲོ་བ་ཤང་།gro ba shang
Ngochu Township俄久乡Éjiǔ xiāngསྔོ་ཆུ་ཤང་།sngo chu shang
Ombu Township文布乡Wénbù xiāngཨོམ་བུ་ཤང་།om bu shang
Gyagok Township甲谷乡Jiǎgǔ xiāngརྒྱ་སྒོག་ཤང་།rgya sgog shang
Kyungtsang Township军仓乡Jūncāng xiāngསྐྱུང་ཚང་ཤང་།skyung tshang shang
Kyelwa Township吉瓦乡Jíwǎ xiāngསྐྱེལ་བ་ཤང་།skyel ba shang

Gallery

  • Location of Nyima County within Tibet (outdated map, shows the situation in 2007, before the establishment of Shuanghu County in 2012)
  • Map including part of southern Nyima County (ATC, 1970)