Purang County

Purang County
སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང · 普兰县
Burang
Burang County
Gurla Mandhata 7,694 metres (25,243 ft)
Location of Purang County within Tibet
Purang
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Purang
Purang (Tibet)
Purang
Purang (China)
Coordinates (Purang County government): 30°17′25″N 81°10′38″E / 30.2904°N 81.1771°E / 30.2904; 81.1771
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
County seatPurang
Area
  Total
12,539 km2 (4,841 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
12,242
  Density0.98/km2 (2.5/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
859500
Websitepl.al.gov.cn
Purang County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese普兰县
Traditional Chinese普蘭縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPǔlán Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingpou2laan4 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང
Transcriptions
Wyliespu hreng rdzong
Tibetan PinyinBurang Zong

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.