Nyima County
Nyima County
尼玛县 • ཉི་མ་རྫོང་། | |
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Location of Nyima County (pale green, #9AFF00) in Nagqu | |
| Coordinates (Nyima County government): 31°47′05″N 87°14′12″E / 31.7847°N 87.2368°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
| County seat | Nyima |
| Area | |
• Total | 72,532.12 km2 (28,004.81 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 33,006 |
| • Density | 0.46/km2 (1.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 尼玛县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 尼玛縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཉི་མ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Nyima County (Tibetan: ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 尼玛县) is the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.
With an area of 62,349 km2 (24,073 sq mi) and a population of 33,006 (2020), it has an average population density of approximately 0.53 people per square kilometre.
It is situated in the central-northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, between Nagqu's Shuanghu County to the east and Ngari's Gêrzê County to the west.