Nyainrong County

Nyainrong County (Tibetan: སྙན་རོང་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 聂荣县) is a small county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, in the north of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Qinghai province to the north. Yurla is a favourite of the people of the county.^[2]

Nyainrong County 聂荣县 • སྙན་རོང་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Nyainrong County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Nyainrong Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Show map of Tibet Nyainrong Nyainrong (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Nyainrong government): 32°06′29″N 92°18′11″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nagqu
County seat	Nyainrong
Area
• Total	9,017 km2 (3,481 sq mi)
Elevation	4,700 m (15,400 ft)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	35,163
• Density	3.9/km2 (10/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code	+(086)0896
Website	www.xznr.gov.cn

Nyainrong County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	聂荣县
Traditional Chinese	聶榮縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Nièróng Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྙན་རོང་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie snyan rong rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Nyainrong Zong

Administrative divisions

The county contains the following 1 town and 9 townships:

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Town
Nyainrong Town	聂荣镇	Nièróng zhèn	གཉན་རོང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	snyan rong grong rdal
Townships
Nyima Township	尼玛乡	Nímǎ xiāng	ཉི་མ་ཤང་།	nyi ma shang
Serchen Township	色庆乡	Sèqìng xiāng	གསེར་ཆེན་ཤང་།	gser chen shang
Trolung Township	桑荣乡	Sāngróng xiāng	ཁྲོ་ལུང་ཤང་།	khrong lung shang
Shakchu Township	下曲乡	Xiàqǔ xiāng	ཤག་ཆུ་ཤང་།	shog chu shang
Bezhung Township	白雄乡	Báixióng xiāng	བེ་གཞུང་ཤང་།	be gzhung shang
Sokzhung Township	索雄乡	Suǒxióng xiāng	སོག་གཞུང་ཤང་།	sog gzhung shang
Damgyang Township (Damshung)	当木江乡	Dāngmùjiāng xiāng	འདམ་རྒྱང་ཤང་།	'dam rgyang shang
Chadam Township	查当乡	Chádāng xiāng	ཁྲ་འདམ་ཤང་།	khra 'dam shang
Yongchu Township	永曲乡	Yǒngqǔ xiāng	ཡོང་ཆུ་ཤང་།	yong chu shang

References

1. "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
2. Li, Tao; Jiang, Hongying (2003). Tibetan customs. China Intercontinental Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-7-5085-0254-0. Retrieved 5 August 2011.