Tingri County
Tingri County
定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་། Dhringgri | |
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A man riding a dzo in Tingri County, 1993 | |
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates (Tingri County seat, Shelkar): 28°39′36″N 87°7′30″E / 28.66000°N 87.12500°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Shelkar |
| Area | |
• Total | 13,861.21 km2 (5,351.84 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 58,173 |
| • Density | 4.2/km2 (11/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 定日县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 定日縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | དིང་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Tingri County (Tibetan: དིང་རི་རྫོང་།; simplified Chinese: 定日县; traditional Chinese: 定日縣; pinyin: Dìngrì Xiàn) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries, the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas, including Mount Everest (Tib. Jomolangma), Makalu and Cho Oyu. The present county administration is located at Shelkar, about 87 km (54 mi) east of Tingri (town).
Tingri is one of the four counties (the other three being Dinjie, Nyalam, and Kyirong) that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve, a protected area spanning 3.381 million hectares.