Zanda County
Zanda County
札达县 • རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་། | |
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 Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang. | |
 Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari Prefecture |
| Capital | Tholing |
Zanda County (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང, Wylie: rtsa mda' rdzong; Chinese: 札达县; pinyin: Zhádá Xiàn) is a county in the Ngari Prefecture to the extreme west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the Guge kingdom.
Zanda or Tsamda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”,[1] an allusion to the grassy river bed of the Sutlej river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda Horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in the Zanda County's Sutlej basin.[2]
The Zanda County is bounded by India's Himachal Pradesh state to the west, Ladakh to the northwest, Uttarakhand to the southwest, the Gar County to the northeast and the Burang County to the southeast.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Zanda County, Tibetan Trekking, retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ Ancient horse skeleton offers glimpse into Tibetan past, horsetalk.co.nz, 25 April 2012.
Further reading[]
- Swenson, Karen (19 March 2000). "Echoes of a Fallen Kingdom". New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
External links[]
- Sutlej river flowing through the Zanda County, OpenStreetMap, retrieved 20 July 2021.
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Coordinates: 31°29′03″N 79°41′11″E / 31.48417°N 79.68639°E
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