Demchok
བདེ་མཆོག, 典角村 Dêmqog | |
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Village | |
  Demchok  Demchok | |
| Coordinates: 32°41′40″N 79°27′45″E / 32.69444°N 79.46250°E | |
| Country | China |
| Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari Prefecture |
| County | Gar County |
| Township | Zhaxigang |
| Elevation | 4,240 m (13,920 ft) |
| Population (2019)[1] | |
| • Total | 171 |
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| Chinese | 典角村 | ||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Diǎnjiǎocūn | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Demchok Village" | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | བདེ་མཆོག | ||||||||
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Demchok[2][a] (Tibetan: བདེ་མཆོག, Wylie: bde mchog, THL: dem chok, ZYPY: dêmqog),[6][7] is a Chinese-administered village in the Zhaxigang Township, Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. India disputes the status and claims it as part of the Demchok sector that it regards as part of Ladakh.
- ^ "典角村"五代房":见证阿里"边境第一村"变迁" ["Five-generation house" in Dianjiao Village: Witness the changes of Ngari's "No. 1 Border Village"] (in Chinese). China Tibet Network. 11 July 2019. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
- ^ Lange, Decoding Mid-19th Century Maps (2017), p. 353: '... the village of Demchok marked the border between Tibet and Ladakh for a long time. Abdul Wahid Radhu, a former representative of the Lopchak caravan,[14] described Demchok in his travel account as “the first location on the Tibetan side of the border”.'
- ^ Bray, John (Winter 1990), "The Lapchak Mission From Ladakh to Lhasa in British Indian Foreign Policy", The Tibet Journal, 15 (4): 77, JSTOR 43300375
- ^ Henry Osmaston; Nawang Tsering, eds. (1997), Recent Research on Ladakh 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Colloquium on Ladakh, Leh 1993, International Association for Ladakh Studies / Motilal Banarsidass Publ., p. 299, ISBN 978-81-208-1432-5
- ^ Cunningham, Alexander (1854), Ladak: Physical, Statistical, Historical, London: Wm. H. Allen and Co, p. 328 – via archive.org
- ^ Tibet Autonomous Region (China): Ngari Prefecture, KNAB Place Name Databse, retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ Francke, Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part 2 (1926), pp. 115–116.
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