Comai County

Comai County (Tibetan: མཚོ་སྨད་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 措美县) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Comai County 措美县 • མཚོ་སྨད་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Comai County (red) in Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Comai Location of the seat in Tibet Show map of Tibet Comai Comai (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 28°26′18″N 91°26′01″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Shannan (Lhoka)
County seat	Comai
Area
• Total	4,177.21 km2 (1,612.83 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	12,132
• Density	2.9/km2 (7.5/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.cuomei.gov.cn

Comai County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	措美县
Traditional Chinese	措美縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Cuòměi Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མཚོ་སྨད་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie mtsho smad rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Comai Zong

Trigu Tsho (1954)

Comai County is famous for its Tibetan Mastiffs and known as the home of Tibetan Mastiff.

Tibetan Mastiff is 24-28 inches tall (at shoulder) and weighs 140-180 pounds. The dog is commonly found wearing a red yak's-hair collar.

Administrative divisions

Comai County contains 2 towns and 2 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Comai Town	措美镇	Cuòměi zhèn	མཚོ་སམད་གྲོང་རྡལ།	mtsho smad grong rdal
Drigu Town	哲古镇	Zhégǔ zhèn	གྲི་གུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	gri gu grong rdal
Townships
Naixi Township	乃西乡	Nǎixī xiāng	གནས་བཞི་ཤང་།	gnas bzhi shang
Godü Township	古堆乡	Gǔduī xiāng	སྒོ་བསྡུས་ཤང་།	sgo bsdus shang

References

1. "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.