Bomê County
County in Tibet, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Bomi County.
Pome County[3][4] (Tibetan: སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང)[2] or Bomê County (Chinese: 波密县)[2] is a county of Nyingchi Prefecture in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region.[4] Historically known as Powo or Poyul, it was the seat of a quasi-independent kingdom until the early 20th century when troops of the Dalai Lama's Lhasa government integrated it into the central Tibetan realm. The population was 25,897 in 2004.[4]
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Pome County
波密县 • སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་ Bomê | |
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Bomê County | |
Coordinates: 29.850°N 95.775°E / 29.850; 95.775 | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Nyingchi |
County seat | Tramog |
Area | |
• Total | 16,072 km2 (6,205 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 34,858 |
• Density | 2.2/km2 (5.6/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
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Simplified Chinese | 波密县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 波密縣 | ||||||||||
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Tibetan | སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་ | ||||||||||
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