Xiayadong Township
Xiayadong Township
下亚东乡 གྲོ་མོ་སྨད་ཆུས Dromo Mechü | |
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| Coordinates: 27°25′46″N 88°55′39″E / 27.42944°N 88.92750°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shigatse |
| County | Yadong County |
| Area | |
• Total | 204.7 km2 (79.0 sq mi) |
| Population (2018) | |
• Total | 897 |
| • Density | 4.4/km2 (11/sq mi) |
Xiayadong Township (simplified Chinese: 下亚东乡; traditional Chinese: 下亞東鄉; pinyin: Xiàyàdōng Xiāng; lit. 'Lower Yadong'), known in Tibetan as Dromo Mechü (Tibetan: གྲོ་མོ་སྨད་ཆུས, Wylie: gro-mo smad-chus) is a township in the Chumbi Valley in Yadong County, Shigatse, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Much of the township's area comprises disputed territory: the township spans an area of 204.7 square kilometres (79.0 sq mi), excluding disputed territory, and 650.88 square kilometres (251.31 sq mi) including it. Xiayadong Township's population totaled 897 as of 2018.
The township straddles the disputed Bhutan-China border, near the sites of the 2017 China-India border standoff.