Zamthang County

Zamtang County 壤塘县 · འཛམ་ཐང་རྫོང་། Camtang, Ndzamthang, Rangtang
County
Bathong Gompa of Dzongmda, Zamthang
Location of Zamtang County (red) within Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Zamtang Location in Sichuan Show map of Sichuan Zamtang Zamtang (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 32°15′56″N 100°58′43″E / 32.26556°N 100.97861°E / 32.26556; 100.97861
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Ngawa
County seat	Gamda
Area
• Total	6,836 km2 (2,639 sq mi)
Elevation	3,285 m (10,778 ft)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	44,679
• Density	6.5/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.rangtang.gov.cn

Zamthang County or Ndzamthang County (Tibetan: འཛམ་ཐང་རྫོང་།, Wylie: dzam thang rdzong, ZYPY: Camtang Zong), or Rangtang County (Chinese: 壤塘县; pinyin: Rǎngtáng Xiàn) is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering on the Banma County of Qinghai Province to the north. It is one of 13 counties under the administration of and lies the westernmost county-level division of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. Zamthang is on the upper reaches of the Dadu River, bordering the Barkam County and Ngawa County on the east and northeast, and adjoining Jinchuan County on the south, and Sêrtar County, Luhuo County and Dawu County in the west and south. Zamthang, which means "the field of Jambhala" (Tibetan: ཛམ་པ་ལ་ཐང་།) in Tibetan, lies in the southeast of the Tibetan Plateau and in the historical region of Amdo. The vast majority of the population is Tibetan (30,200), followed by Han people (3949), Qiang people (269) and Hui people (78).^[2]