Baingoin County

Baingoin County
班戈县དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་།
Bangor
Nam Tso
Location of Baingoin County (red) in Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Baingoin County (red) in Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Baingoin is located in Tibet
Baingoin
Baingoin
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Baingoin is located in China
Baingoin
Baingoin
Baingoin (China)
Coordinates: 31°23′33″N 90°00′36″E / 31.3924°N 90.0100°E / 31.3924; 90.0100
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatPhukpa
Area
 • Total28,383 km2 (10,959 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total39,309
 • Density1.4/km2 (3.6/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.xzbg.gov.cn
Baingoin County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese班戈县
Traditional Chinese班戈縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBāngé Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingbaan1gwo1 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanདཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliedpal mgon rdzong
Tibetan PinyinBaingoin Zong

Baingoin County (Tibetan: དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 班戈县), formerly Namru Dzong (Tibetan: གནམ་རུ་རྫོང), is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Baingoin County got the name from the Baingoin Co (Bangor Co) which is a lake in center of the county. The county lies between lakes Namtso and Siling.

  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.