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Tingri County
定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་། Dhringgri | |
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 A man riding a dzo in Tingri County, 1993 | |
.png) Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Tingri County Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region  Tingri County Tingri County (China) | |
| Coordinates (Tingri County seat, Shelkar): 28°39′36″N 87°7′30″E / 28.66000°N 87.12500°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Shelkar |
| Area | |
• Total | 13,861.21 km2 (5,351.84 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 58,173 |
| • Density | 4.2/km2 (11/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 定日县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 定日縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | དིང་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Tingri County (Tibetan: དིང་རི་རྫོང་།; simplified Chinese: 定日县; traditional Chinese: 定日縣; pinyin: Dìngrì Xiàn) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.[2]
The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries, the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas, including Mount Everest (Tib. Jomolangma), Makalu and Cho Oyu. The present county administration is located at Shelkar, about 87 km (54 mi) east of Tingri (town).[3]
Tingri is one of the four counties (the other three being Dinjie, Nyalam, and Kyirong) that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve,[4] a protected area spanning 3.381 million hectares.
On 7 January 2025 at 09:05 CST (UTC+8), an earthquake measuring Mw 7.1 or Ms 6.8 struck Tingri County.
- ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 20 July 2021. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China's Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, p. 296. 2nd edition (1999). Gyume Dorje. Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 1-900949-33-4.
- ^ Department of Forestry, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, Report on Protected Lands in the Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa: Tibet Autonomous Region Government Publishing House, 2006