Zayu County

Zayul County
察隅县རྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།
Dzayul, Chayul, Tsayul, Zayü, Chayu, Tsayu
Zayü County
Location of Zayul County (red) within the Nyingchi Prefecture (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Zayul County (red) within the Nyingchi Prefecture (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Zayü County in Nyingchi (in Sunglow color; disputed area contained)
Location of Zayü County in Nyingchi (in Sunglow color; disputed area contained)
Zayul is located in Tibet
Zayul
Zayul
Location in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Zayul is located in China
Zayul
Zayul
Zayul (China)
Coordinates: 28°39′40″N 97°28′01″E / 28.661°N 97.467°E / 28.661; 97.467
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNyingchi
SeatZhowagoin Town
Area
(de facto controlled)
 • Total19,000 km2 (7,000 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total28,237
 • Density1.5/km2 (3.8/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
860600
Websitewww.chayu.gov.cn
Zayu County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese察隅县
Traditional Chinese察隅縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCháyú Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylierdza yul rdzong
Tibetan PinyinZayü Zong

Zayul County[2][a] (Tibetan: རྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང)[3][4] or Zayü (Chinese: 察隅县)[3] is a county in the Nyingchi Prefecture in the southeastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

The historical Zayul region is marked by the basin of the Zayul River, with its two branches: Rongto Chu (or the western Zayul River) and Zayul Chu (or the eastern Zayul River). The two branches join near the town of Rima. After the junction, the Zayul river enters India's Arunachal Pradesh where it is called Lohit.

The Zayul county borders India and Burma to the south and China's Yunnan province to the southeast. To the northeast lies the Pome County and to the northwest the Medog County. The county's headquarter located at Kyigang Village, Zhowagoin Town.[3]

  1. ^ "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.
  2. ^ Lamb, The McMahon Line, Vol. 2 (1966), p. 275; Mehra, The McMahon Line and After (1974), p. 74
  3. ^ a b c d Nyingchi Prefecture-Level City, KNAB, retrieved 5 July 2021.
  4. ^ THL’s Online Tibetan Transliteration Converter and THL’s Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter, invoked 31 August 2022.


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