Purang Town

Purang
  • སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ
  • 普兰镇
Puhreng, Burang
Town
Purang County Health Service Center located in Purang Town
Purang County Health Service Center located in Purang Town
Purang is located in Ngari
Purang
Purang
Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates (Purang Town government): 30°17′10″N 81°10′37″E / 30.2861°N 81.1770°E / 30.2861; 81.1770
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
CountyPurang
Area
[1]
 • Total3,257.81 km2 (1,257.85 sq mi)
Elevation
3,900 m (13,205 ft)
Population
 (2010)[2]
 • Total6,047
 • Density1.9/km2 (4.8/sq mi)
 • Major Nationalities
Tibetan
 • Regional dialect
Tibetan language
Time zoneUTC+8 (CST)
Map
Purang Town
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese普兰镇
Traditional Chinese普蘭鎮
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPǔlán Zhèn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingpou2laan4 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ
Transcriptions
Wyliespu hreng grong rdal
Tibetan PinyinBurang Chongdai
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Purang[3][4] or Burang, known as Puhreng in Tibetan (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ, Wylie: spu hreng grong rdal, THL: pu hreng drong del,[5] IPA: puʂeŋ),[citation needed] (Nepali:ताक्लाकोट) is a town which serves as the administrative center of Purang County, Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China.[6] The town lies at an altitude of 3,900m (12,795 feet) in the valley of the Karnali River.[7] The town spans an area of 3,257.81 square kilometres (1,257.85 sq mi),[1] and has a permanent population 6,047 as of 2010,[2] and a hukou population of 4,477 as of 2018.[1] To the south are Gurla Mandhata (Mount Namonanyi) and the Abi Gamin ranges. Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash are to the north. This region is the mythological and actual river nexus of the Himalaya with sources of the Indus, Ganges and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra all within 110 kilometres (70 mi) of Purang.

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  2. ^ a b 普兰镇. xzqh.org (in Chinese). 2016-04-05. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  3. ^ Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet (1854), pp. 12–13.
  4. ^ Dorje, Footprint Tibet (1999), p. 328.
  5. ^ "Ngari prefecture". Geographical names of Tibet AR (China). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  6. ^ 普兰县概况地图. xzqh.org (in Chinese). 2016-03-01. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  7. ^ "Burang, the Major Border Linking Ngari to Nepal and India". Tibet Travel and Tours - Tibet Vista. Retrieved 2022-08-05.