Purang County
Purang County
སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང · 普兰县 Burang | |
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| Burang County | |
Gurla Mandhata 7,694 metres (25,243 ft) | |
Location of Purang County within Tibet | |
| Coordinates (Purang County government): 30°17′25″N 81°10′38″E / 30.2904°N 81.1771°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County seat | Purang |
| Area | |
• Total | 12,539 km2 (4,841 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 12,242 |
| • Density | 0.98/km2 (2.5/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 859500 |
| Website | pl |
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| Simplified Chinese | 普兰县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 普蘭縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང | ||||||||||
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Purang County or Burang County (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང; Chinese: 普兰县) is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China. The county seat is Purang Town, known as Taklakot in Nepali. The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of 9,657 as of 2010.