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:

NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylie
Town
Thoding Town (Tholing)托林镇Tuōlín zhènམཐོ་ལྡིང་གྲོང་རྡལ།mtho lding grong rdal
Townships
Dzarong Township萨让乡Sàràng xiāngརྫ་རོང་ཤང་།rdza rong shang
Danbab Township (Daba)达巴乡Dábā xiāngམདའ་འབབ་ཤང་།mda' 'bab shang
Diyag Township底雅乡Dǐyǎ xiāngཏི་ཡག་ཤང་།ti yag shang
Qangzê Township香孜乡Xiāngzī xiāngབྱང་རྩེ་ཤང་།byang rtse shang
Qusum Township曲松乡Qǔsōng xiāngཆུ་གསུམ་ཤང་།chu gsum shang
Tsosib Sumkyil Township (Churup Sumkhel)楚鲁松杰乡Chǔlǔsōngjié xiāngཚོ་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.