Rutog County

Rutog County
日土县 • རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།
Rudok, Ritu
County
Rutog Town
Rutog Town
Map showing Rutog County (green, upper left) in Ngari Prefecture
Map showing Rutog County (green, upper left) in Ngari Prefecture
Location of Rutog County (red) within Ngari Prefecture (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Rutog County (red) within Ngari Prefecture (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Rutog is located in Ngari
Rutog
Rutog
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Rutog is located in Tibet
Rutog
Rutog
Rutog (Tibet)
Rutog is located in China
Rutog
Rutog
Rutog (China)
Coordinates (Rutog County government): 33°54′48″N 80°45′01″E / 33.91333°N 80.75028°E / 33.91333; 80.75028
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
County seatRutog
Area
[1][clarification needed]
 • Total
81,046 km2 (31,292 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total
11,167
 • Density0.14/km2 (0.36/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
 • Major ethnic groupsTibetan[3]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
859700
Websitert.al.gov.cn (in Chinese)
Rutog County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese日土县
Traditional Chinese日土縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRìtǔ Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanརུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylieru thog rdzong
Tibetan PinyinRutog Zong

Rutog County[4][5][6][7][8][9] (Tibetan: རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 日土县) is a county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is the new Rutog Town, located some 1,140 km (710 mi) or 700 miles west-northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Rutog County shares a border with India.[10]

The county has a rich history of folk tales, myths, legends, proverbs and folk songs and has many caves, rock paintings and other relics. The Xinjiang-Tibet Highway runs through the Rutog County for 340 km (210 mi). The modern county established in March 1961 covers 74,500 km2 (28,800 sq mi). It has a very low population density with a population of just over 10,000.

  1. ^ 地区经济司 (30 November 2017). 西藏自治区阿里地区日土县. National Development and Reform Commission (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020 – via Internet Archive. 日土县隶属阿里地区，全县总面积81046平方公里，辖1镇4乡。2015年总人口10635人。
  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.
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  4. ^ Berman, Lex (2017-03-17). "Tibetan Administrative Placenames Cross Index (2001)". Harvard Dataverse. doi:10.7910/dvn/prcltu. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  5. ^ Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (2010). Jiànzhú kàngzhèn shèjì guīfàn 建筑抗震设计规范 [GB50011-2010: Code for Seismic Design of Buildings] (in English and Simplified Chinese). Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press. p. 198. Rutog County
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  7. ^ Webster's 21st Century World Atlas. Barnes & Noble Books. 1999. p. 94 – via archive.org. Rutog
  8. ^ Complete Atlas Of The World (3 ed.). Penguin Random House. 2016. p. 238 – via archive.org. Rutog
  9. ^ Li Xia, ed. (6 August 2019). "Scenery of glacier in Rutog County, SW China's Tibet". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on August 6, 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2020. Rutog County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
  10. ^ "China". Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 2 September 1988. p. 68 – via archive.org.