Nyima County
尼玛县 • ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Nyima County (pale green, #9AFF00) in Nagqu
Location of Nyima County (pale green, #9AFF00) in Nagqu
Nyima is located in Tibet
Nyima
Nyima
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Nyima is located in China
Nyima
Nyima
Nyima (China)
Coordinates (Nyima County government): 31°47′05″N 87°14′12″E / 31.7847°N 87.2368°E / 31.7847; 87.2368
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatNyima
Area
 • Total72,532.12 km2 (28,004.81 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total33,006
 • Density0.46/km2 (1.2/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.nqnmx.gov.cn
Nyima County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese尼玛县
Traditional Chinese尼玛縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཉི་མ་རྫོང་།

Nyima County (Tibetan: ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 尼玛县) is the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.

With an area of 62,349 km2 (24,073 sq mi) and a population of 33,006 (2020), it has an average population density of approximately 0.53 people per square kilometre.

It is situated in the central-northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, between Nagqu's Shuanghu County to the east and Ngari's Gêrzê County to the west.

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into 1 town and 13 townships:

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Nyima Town 尼玛镇 Nímǎ zhèn ཉི་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། nyi ma grong rdal
Townships
Dro'nyin Township 卓尼乡 Zhuóní xiāng འགྲོ་ཉིན་ཤང་། 'gro nyin shang
Targo Township 达果乡 Dáguǒ xiāng བསྟར་སྒོ་ཤང་། bstar sgo shang
Aso Township 阿索乡 Ãsuǒ xiāng ཨ་གསོ་ཤང་། a gso shang
Rongma Township 荣玛乡 Róngmǎ xiāng རོང་མ་ཤང་། rong ma shang
Drongtsang Township 中仓乡 Zhōngcāng xiāng གྲོང་ཚང་ཤང་། grong tshang shang
Latö Township 来多乡 Láiduō xiāng ལ་སྟོད་ཤང་། la stod shang
Sin'ya Township 申亚乡 Shēnyà xiāng སྲིན་ཡ་ཤང་། srin ya shang
Drowa Township 卓瓦乡 Zhuówǎ xiāng གྲོ་བ་ཤང་། gro ba shang
Ngochu Township 俄久乡 Éjiǔ xiāng སྔོ་ཆུ་ཤང་། sngo chu shang
Ombu Township 文布乡 Wénbù xiāng ཨོམ་བུ་ཤང་། om bu shang
Gyagok Township 甲谷乡 Jiǎgǔ xiāng རྒྱ་སྒོག་ཤང་། rgya sgog shang
Kyungtsang Township 军仓乡 Jūncāng xiāng སྐྱུང་ཚང་ཤང་། skyung tshang shang
Kyelwa Township 吉瓦乡 Jíwǎ xiāng སྐྱེལ་བ་ཤང་། skyel ba 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.
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