Lhorong County

Lhorong County
洛隆县ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་།
Location of Lhorong County within Tibet
Lhorong County
Location in Tibet
Lhorong County
Lhorong County (China)
Coordinates: 30°42′N 96°9′E / 30.700°N 96.150°E / 30.700; 96.150
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityChamdo
County seatDzito (Lhorong)
Area
  Total
8,060.36 km2 (3,112.12 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
53,185
  Density6.6/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websiteluolong.changdu.gov.cn
Lhorong County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese洛隆县
Traditional Chinese洛隆縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLuòlóng Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylielho rong rdzong
Tibetan PinyinLhorong Zong

Lhorong County (Tibetan: ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 洛隆县) is a county of Chamdo in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county covers an area of 8,108 km2 (3,131 sq mi) and has a population of around 40,000 as of 2003. The word Lhorong means "valley in the south" or "river in the south" in Tibetan.