Purang County

Purang County
སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང · 普兰县
Burang
County
Burang County
Gurla Mandhata 7,694 metres (25,243 ft)
Gurla Mandhata 7,694 metres (25,243 ft)
Location of Purang County within Tibet
Location of Purang County within Tibet
Purang is located in Ngari
Purang
Purang
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Purang is located in Tibet
Purang
Purang
Purang (Tibet)
Purang is located in China
Purang
Purang
Purang (China)
Coordinates (Purang County government): 30°17′25″N 81°10′38″E / 30.2904°N 81.1771°E / 30.2904; 81.1771
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
County seatPurang
Area
[1]
 • Total12,539 km2 (4,841 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total12,242
 • Density0.98/km2 (2.5/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
859500
Websitepl.al.gov.cn
Purang County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese普兰县
Traditional Chinese普蘭縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPǔlán Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingpou2laan4 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང
Transcriptions
Wyliespu hreng rdzong
Tibetan PinyinBurang Zong

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet (1854), pp. 12–13.
  4. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (1999), p. 328.
  5. ^ China Report, No. 234, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Government of the United States, 1981 – via archive.org
  6. ^ "Ngari prefecture". Geographical names of Tibet AR (China). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  7. ^ Dorje, Gyurme (1999). Footprnt Tibet Handbook (2nd ed.). Bath, England: Footprint Handbooks. ISBN 978-1-900949-33-0.
  8. ^ 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.