Tingri County

Tingri County
定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་།
Dhringgri
County
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tingri County is located in Tibet
Tingri County
Tingri County
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tingri County is located in China
Tingri County
Tingri County
Tingri County (China)
Coordinates (Tingri County government, Shelkar): 28°39′32″N 87°07′34″E / 28.659°N 87.126°E / 28.659; 87.126
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatShelkar
Area
 • Total
13,861.21 km2 (5,351.84 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
58,173
 • Density4.2/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.drx.gov.cn
Tingri County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese定日县
Traditional Chinese定日縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDìngrì Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanདིང་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylieding ri rdzong
Tibetan PinyinTingri Zong

Tingri County (Tibetan: དིང་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 定日县) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.[2]

The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries, the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas, including Mount Everest (Tib. Chomolungma), Makalu and Cho Oyu. The present county administration is located at Shelkar, about 87 km (54 mi) east of Tingri (town).[3]

Tingri is one of the four counties (the other three being Dinjie, Nyalam, and Kyirong) that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve,[4] a protected area spanning 3.381 million hectares.

  1. ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
  2. ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  3. ^ Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, p. 296. 2nd edition (1999). Gyume Dorje. Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 1-900949-33-4.
  4. ^ Department of Forestry, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, ‘’Report on Protected Lands in the Tibet Autonomous Region’’ Lhasa: Tibet Autonomous Region Government Publishing House, 2006