Purang County
སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང · 普兰县 Burang | |
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| Burang County | |
 Gurla Mandhata 7,694 metres (25,243 ft) | |
.png) Location of Purang County within Tibet | |
  Purang Location of the seat in the Tibet AR  Purang Purang (Tibet)  Purang Purang (China) | |
| Coordinates (Purang County government): 30°17′25″N 81°10′38″E / 30.2904°N 81.1771°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County seat | Purang |
| Area | |
• Total | 12,539 km2 (4,841 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 12,242 |
| • Density | 0.98/km2 (2.5/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 859500 |
| Website | pl |
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| Simplified Chinese | 普兰县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 普蘭縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང | ||||||||||
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Purang County[3][4] or Burang County[5] (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང; Chinese: 普兰县)[6] is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China. The county seat is Purang Town, known as Taklakot in Nepali.[7] The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of 9,657 as of 2010.[1][8]
- ^ a b 普兰县概况地图. xzqh.org. 2016-03-01. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of Ngari Prefecture. 2021-06-10.
- ^ Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet (1854), pp. 12–13.
- ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (1999), p. 328.
- ^ China Report, No. 234, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Government of the United States, 1981 – via archive.org
- ^ "Ngari prefecture". Geographical names of Tibet AR (China). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Dorje, Gyurme (1999). Footprnt Tibet Handbook (2nd ed.). Bath, England: Footprint Handbooks. ISBN 978-1-900949-33-0.
- ^ 普兰县历史沿革. xzqh.org (in Chinese). 2016-04-05. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-06-17.