Nyima County

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Nyima County 尼玛县 • ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Nyima County within Tibet (outdated map, shows the situation in 2007, before the establishment of Shuanghu County in 2012)
Nyima Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Coordinates (Nyima County government): 31°47′05″N 87°14′12″E / 31.7847°N 87.2368°E / 31.7847; 87.2368Coordinates: 31°47′05″N 87°14′12″E / 31.7847°N 87.2368°E / 31.7847; 87.2368
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nagqu
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Nyima County (Tibetan: ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: nyi ma rdzong, ZYPY: Nyima Zong; simplified Chinese: 尼玛县; traditional Chinese: 尼瑪縣; pinyin: N��mǎ Xiàn) is the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.

Map including part of southern Nyima County (ATC, 1970)

With an area of 72,499 km² (27,992 sq mi) and a population of 29,000 (2012), it has an average population density of less than 0.4 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.

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