Mêdog County
Mêdog County
墨脱县 • མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་། Metok, Motuo, Pemako | |
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| Coordinates (Mêdog government): 29°19′30″N 95°19′59″E / 29.325°N 95.333°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nyingchi |
| County seat | Metog |
| Area (de facto controlled) | |
• Total | 6,600 km2 (2,500 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 14,889 |
| • Density | 2.3/km2 (5.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 墨脱县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 墨脫縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Mêdog (Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 墨脱县), formerly known as Pemako (Tibetan: པདྨ་བཀོད་, Wylie: pad ma bkod, THL: Pémakö, ZYPY: Bämagö lit. "Lotus Array"), is a county of Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Pemako is considered famous because it is the Nyingma master Dudjom Rinpoche's birthplace, and it is a prophesied refuge for Tibetan Buddhists by Padmasambhava.