Xiayadong Township

Xiayadong Township

下亚东乡
གྲོ་མོ་སྨད་ཆུས
Dromo Mechü
Xiayadong Township 下亚东乡; གྲོ་མོ་སྨད་ཆུས Dromo Mechü
Township
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	Coordinates: 27°25′46″N 88°55′39″E / 27.42944°N 88.92750°E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Shigatse
County	Yadong County
Area
• Total	204.7 km2 (79.0 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	1,097
• Density	5.4/km2 (14/sq mi)

Xiayadong Township (simplified Chinese: 下亚东乡; traditional Chinese: 下亞東鄉; pinyin: Xiàyàdōng Xiāng; lit. 'Lower Yadong'), known in Tibetan as Dromo Mechü (Tibetan: གྲོ་མོ་སྨ��་ཆུས, Wylie: gro-mo smad-chus) is a township in the Chumbi Valley in Yadong County, Shigatse, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.^[1] The township spans an area of 204.7 square kilometres (79.0 sq mi), and a population of 1,097 as of 2010.^[2]

The township straddles the disputed Bhutan-China border, near the sites of the 2017 China-India border standoff.

Xiayadong Township in Yadong County, along with territories in Bhutan claimed by China as part of the Township.^[a]

Geography[]

The township's center is the village of Rinchengang, on the bank of the Amo Chu valley, which also receives the track from Sikkim's Jelep La pass. In addition to Rinchengang, the township also includes the Geling, Chema and Pipitang villages upstream along the Amo Chu, and Assam-Rotsa (or Asamthang) downstream.^[3]

In addition, the Township includes large territories in Bhutan that China claims. These include the Doklam region, Lulin and Charitang. These claims however do not find historical support in the testimony of British Indian officials.^[b]

Administrative divisions[]

Xiayadong administers two administrative villages: Rinchengang and Chema.^[6]

Notes[]

Map by Waddell

^ The borders are marked by contributors to OpenStreetMap. They may not be fully accurate.
^ According to John Claude White, the British Political Officer in Sikkim in early 20th century, the border between Tibet and Bhutan was somewhere between the Langmarpo and Charitang rivers.^[4] Orientalist L. Austine Waddell also shows the border between Tibet and Bhutan running from the Mount Gipmochi, via Sinchela, to the Charitang river. (Charitang is incorrectly labelled as Langmarpo.)^[5]

References[]

^ 2020年统计用区划代码（亚东县） [2020 Statistical Division Codes (Yadong County)] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2021-10-10.
^ 下亚东乡 [Xiayadong Township]. www.citypopulation.de (in Chinese). Retrieved 2021-10-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ White 1909, pp. 111–112.
^ White 1909, p. 112: "Over the Kyanka [Charitang river] there was a good new bridge, which we crossed, and passed under a cave, or rather two overhanging rocks, named Tak-phu, which were pointed out as being in Bhutanese territory."
^ White 1909, p. 112: "but I found the map was wrong, and that the stream marked Langmarpu-chhu is really the Kyanka, a second stream which we had already crossed higher up being the Langmarpu-chhu."
^ 2020年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码（下亚东乡） [2020 Statistical Division Codes and Urban-Rural Division Codes (Xiayadong Township)] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2021-10-10.

Bibliography[]

White, J. Claude (1909), Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier, 1887—1908, Vivek Publishing House – via archive.org

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[3] The borders are marked by contributors to OpenStreetMap. They may not be fully accurate.

[7] According to John Claude White, the British Political Officer in Sikkim in early 20th century, the border between Tibet and Bhutan was somewhere between the Langmarpo and Charitang rivers.^[4] Orientalist L. Austine Waddell also shows the border between Tibet and Bhutan running from the Mount Gipmochi, via Sinchela, to the Charitang river. (Charitang is incorrectly labelled as Langmarpo.)^[5]

[1] 2020年统计用区划代码（亚东县） [2020 Statistical Division Codes (Yadong County)] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2021-10-10.

[2] 下亚东乡 [Xiayadong Township]. www.citypopulation.de (in Chinese). Retrieved 2021-10-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[FOOTNOTEWhite1909111–112-4] White 1909, pp. 111–112.

[5] White 1909, p. 112: "Over the Kyanka [Charitang river] there was a good new bridge, which we crossed, and passed under a cave, or rather two overhanging rocks, named Tak-phu, which were pointed out as being in Bhutanese territory."

[6] White 1909, p. 112: "but I found the map was wrong, and that the stream marked Langmarpu-chhu is really the Kyanka, a second stream which we had already crossed higher up being the Langmarpu-chhu."

[8] 2020年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码（下亚东乡） [2020 Statistical Division Codes and Urban-Rural Division Codes (Xiayadong Township)] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2021-10-10.

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