Kangmar County

Kangmar County
康马县ཁང་དམར་རྫོང་།
Location of Kangmar County (red) within Xigazê (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Location of Kangmar County (red) within Xigazê (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Kangmar is located in Tibet
Kangmar
Kangmar
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Kangmar is located in China
Kangmar
Kangmar
Kangmar (China)
Coordinates: 28°16′49″N 89°20′38″E / 28.28028°N 89.34389°E / 28.28028; 89.34389
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatKangmar
Area
 • Total6,163.72 km2 (2,379.83 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total20,864
 • Density3.4/km2 (8.8/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.kmx.gov.cn
Kangmar County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese康马县
Traditional Chinese康馬縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinKāngmǎ Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanཁང་དམར་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
WylieKhang dMar rDzong
Tibetan PinyinKangmar Zong

Kangmar County (Tibetan: ཁང་དམར་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 康马县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering India's Sikkim state to the south. Gala Co lake is located in Kangmar County.[2]

Administration divisions

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Kangmar County is divided into 1 town and 8 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Kangmar Town 康马镇 Kāngmǎ zhèn ཁང་དམར་གྲོང་རྡལ། khang dmar grong rdal
Townships
Namnying Township 南尼乡 Nánní xiāng གནམ་རྙིང་ཤང་། gnam rnying shang
Sapügang Township 少岗乡 Shàogǎng xiāng ས་ཕུད་སྒང་ཤང་། sa phud sgang shang
Kamru Township 康如乡 Kāngrú xiāng གམ་རུ་ཤང་། gam ru shang
Samada Township 萨玛达乡 Sàmǎdá xiāng ས་མ་མདའ་ཤང་། sa ma mda' shang
Gala Township 嘎拉乡 Gālā xiāng ཀ་ལ་ཤང་། ka la shang
Nyêrudoi Township 涅如堆乡 Nièrúduī xiāng ཉེ་རུ་སྟོད་ཤང་། nye ru stod shang
Nyêrumai Township 涅如麦乡 Nièrúmài xiāng ཉེ་རུ་སྨད་ཤང་། nye ru smad shang
Zhontreng Township 雄章乡 Xióngzhāng xiāng བཞོན་འཕྲེང་ཤང་། bzhon 'phren shang

References

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  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.