Zhag'yab County

Zhag'yab County
察雅县བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་།
Location of Zhag'yab County within Tibet
Location of Zhag'yab County within Tibet
Zhag'yab County is located in Tibet
Zhag'yab County
Zhag'yab County
Location in Tibet
Zhag'yab County is located in China
Zhag'yab County
Zhag'yab County
Zhag'yab County (China)
Coordinates: 30°39′22″N 97°34′01″E / 30.656°N 97.567°E / 30.656; 97.567
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityChamdo
County seatYêndum
Area
 • Total
8,255.59 km2 (3,187.50 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
57,065
 • Density6.9/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitechaya.changdu.gov.cn
Zhag'yab County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese察雅县
Traditional Chinese察雅縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCháyǎ Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanབྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliebrag g.yab rdzong
Tibetan PinyinZhag'yab Zong

Zhag'yab County (Tibetan: བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང, Wylie: brag g.yab rdzong, THL: drak yap dzong་; Chinese: 察雅县; pinyin: Chá yǎ xiàn), also spelled Dragyab,[2] Chagyab, Draya,[3] and Chaya,[2] is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

  1. ^ "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
  2. ^ a b Tibet 2002: A Year Book, Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
  3. ^ Mehra, Parshotam (1974). The McMahon Line and After: A Study of the Triangular Contest on India's North-eastern Frontier Between Britain, China and Tibet, 1904-47. Macmillan. pp. 67–68. ISBN 9780333157374 – via archive.org.