Yadong County
亚东县 • གྲོ་མོ་རྫོང Dromo, Tromo, Chomo | |
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.png) Location of Yadong County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Yadong Location of the seat in Tibet  Yadong Yadong (China) | |
| Coordinates (Yadong County government): 27°29′10″N 88°54′26″E / 27.4861°N 88.9071°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shigatse |
| County seat | Shasima (Yatung) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,240.14 km2 (1,637.13 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 15,449 |
| • Density | 3.6/km2 (9.4/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
Yadong County (Chinese: 亚东县; pinyin: Yàdōng xiàn), also known by its Tibetan name Dromo/Tromo County (Tibetan: གྲོ་མོ་རྫོང, Wylie: gro mo rdzong, THL: dro mo dzong, ZYPY: Chomo Zong)[2][3] is a frontier county and trade-market of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, part of its Shigatse Prefecture.[4]
Yadong County is coextensive with the Chumbi valley that extends south into the Himalayas between Sikkim and Bhutan. It shares boundaries with both India and Bhutan. It covers about 4,306 square kilometers with a population of 10,000. Its headquarters is Yatung (also called Shasima).
- ^ "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.
- ^ BDRCཨང་། (G2172), Buddhist Tibetan Resource Centre, retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ Goldstein, Melvyn C. (2001), The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Univ of California Press, p. 204, ISBN 978-0-520-20437-9
- ^ 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.