Nyalam County

Nyalam County གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་། · 聂拉木县
County
Milarepa's Cave
Location of Nyalam County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Nyalam Location of the county seat in Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates (Nyalam County government): 28°09′19″N 85°58′56″E / 28.1552°N 85.9822°E / 28.1552; 85.9822Coordinates: 28°09′19″N 85°58′56″E / 28.1552°N 85.9822°E / 28.1552; 85.9822
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Xigazê
County seat	Nyalam Town
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Nyalam County (simplified Chinese: 聂拉木县; traditional Chinese: 聶拉木縣; pinyin: Nièlāmù Xiàn; Tibetan: gnya' lam rdzong) is a county in Tibet's Shigatse Prefecture. It borders on Nepal.

The land area of the county is 7,903 km² (3,051 sq mi). The population as of 2003 was 10,000. The postal code for the county is 858300.

The county seat is in Nyalam Town.

The other town of the county is Dram, also known under its Tibetan name Dram, or Nepali Khasa. It is located near the border and is the point of entry from Nepal. At "merely" 2300 meters elevation about the sea level, Zhangmu has mild and humid subtropical climate, which is a rarity for Tibet.

It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Nyalam, Tingri, Dinggyê, and Kyirong).^[1]

Towns and townships[]

Map including Nyalam County area (DMA, 1981)

• Nyalam Town (གནའ་ལམ་, 聂拉木镇)
• Dram Town (འགྲམ་, 樟木镇)
• (ཡར་སླེབས་, 亚来乡)
• (ཟུར་མཚོ་, 琐作乡)
• Nailung Township (ནས་ལུང་, 乃龙乡)
• Mainpu Township (སྨན་ཕུ་, 门布乡)
• (སྤོ་རོང་, 波绒乡)

Transport[]

• China National Highway 318

References[]

External links[]

• Zhangmu town tourist information
• Sara Shneiderman "Swapping Identities: Borderland exchanges along the Nepal-TAR frontier"

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