Nyima County

Nyima County
尼玛县ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།
Location of Nyima County (pale green, #9AFF00) in Nagqu
Location of Nyima County (pale green, #9AFF00) in Nagqu
Nyima is located in Tibet
Nyima
Nyima
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Nyima is located in China
Nyima
Nyima
Nyima (China)
Coordinates (Nyima County government): 31°47′05″N 87°14′12″E / 31.7847°N 87.2368°E / 31.7847; 87.2368
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatNyima
Area
 • Total72,532.12 km2 (28,004.81 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total33,006
 • Density0.46/km2 (1.2/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.nqnmx.gov.cn
Nyima County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese尼玛县
Traditional Chinese尼玛縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinNímǎ Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanཉི་མ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylienyi ma rdzong
Tibetan PinyinNyima Zong

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.

  1. ^ "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.