Pasho County

Pasho County
八宿县དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།
Baxoi, Pashö, Pashoi, Pashoe, Pashu
Baxoi County
The Kangri Karpo in Baxoi County
The Kangri Karpo in Baxoi County
Location of Baxoi County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Baxoi County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Baxoi is located in Tibet
Baxoi
Baxoi
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Baxoi is located in China
Baxoi
Baxoi
Baxoi (China)
Coordinates: 30°3′25″N 96°55′7″E / 30.05694°N 96.91861°E / 30.05694; 96.91861
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityChamdo
County seatBaima (Pasho)
Area
 • Total12,328.31 km2 (4,759.99 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total43,538
 • Density3.5/km2 (9.1/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitebasu.changdu.gov.cn
Pasho County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese八宿县
Traditional Chinese八宿縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBāsù Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingbaat3suk1 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanདཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliedpa' shod rdzong
THLpa shö dzong
Tibetan PinyinBaxoi Zong

Pasho County[2][a] or Baxoi County (Tibetan: དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 八宿县) is a county under the administration of Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is at Pema, which is also called the "Pasho Town".[4] The county population is 35,273 (1999). It contains the Pomda Monastery and Rakwa Tso lake.

  1. ^ "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
  2. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 435.
  3. ^ Kingdon Ward & Smith, The Himalaya East of the Tsangpo (1934), p. 380.
  4. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (2004), p. 436.


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