Rutog County
Rutog County
日土县 • རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་། Rudok, Ritu | |
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Map showing Rutog County (green, upper left) in Ngari Prefecture | |
Location of Rutog County (red) within Ngari Prefecture (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates (Rutog County government): 33°22′48″N 79°43′55″E / 33.380°N 79.732°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County seat | Rutog |
| Area | |
• Total | 81,046 km2 (31,292 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 11,167 |
| • Density | 0.14/km2 (0.36/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Tibetan |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 859700 |
| Website | rt |
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| Simplified Chinese | 日土县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 日土縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Rutog County (Tibetan: རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 日土县) is a county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is the new Rutog Town, located some 1,140 km (710 mi) or 700 miles west-northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Rutog County shares a border with India, which is disputed.
The county has a rich history of folk tales, myths, legends, proverbs and folk songs and has many caves, rock paintings and other relics. The Xinjiang-Tibet Highway runs through the Rutog County for 340 km (210 mi). The modern county established in March 1961 covers 74,500 km2 (28,800 sq mi). It has a very low population density with a population of just over 10,000.