Zanda County
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Zanda County or Tsamda County (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང, Chinese: 札达县) 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 (Tsamda) was established in 1956 through a merger of Tsaparang and Daba counties.
Zanda County is bounded by India's Himachal Pradesh state to the west, Uttarakhand State to the south, Ladakh to the northwest, Gar County to the northeast and Burang County to the southeast. Ancient Zanda horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in Zanda County's Sutlej basin.
Administrative divisions
Zanda county is divided into 1 town and 4 townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town | ||||
| Thoding Town (Tholing) | 托林镇 | Tuōlín zhèn | མཐོ་ལྡིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mtho lding grong rdal |
| Townships | ||||
| Dzarong Township | 萨让乡 | Sàràng xiāng | རྫ་རོང་ཤང་། | rdza rong shang |
| Danbab Township (Daba) | 达巴乡 | Dábā xiāng | མདའ་འབབ་ཤང་། | mda' 'bab shang |
| Diyag Township | 底雅乡 | Dǐyǎ xiāng | ཏི་ཡག་ཤང་། | ti yag shang |
| Qangzê Township | 香孜乡 | Xiāngzī xiāng | བྱང་རྩེ་ཤང་། | byang rtse shang |
| Qusum Township | 曲松乡 | Qǔsōng xiāng | ཆུ་གསུམ་ཤང་། | chu gsum shang |
| Tsosib Sumkyil Township (Churup Sumkhel) | 楚鲁松杰乡 | Chǔlǔsōngjié xiāng | ཚོ་སྲིབ་གསུམ་དཀྱིལ་ཤང་། | tshe srib gsum dkyil shang |
See also
Further reading
- Swenson, Karen (19 March 2000). . New York Times.
External links
- , OpenStreetMap, retrieved 20 July 2021.