Zhongba County
Zhongba County
仲巴县 • འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་། Drongpa | |
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Location of Zhongba County (red) in Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R. | |
| Coordinates: 29°46′12″N 84°01′53″E / 29.77000°N 84.03139°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shigatse |
| County seat | Labrang (Drongpa) |
| Area | |
• Total | 43,602.92 km2 (16,835.18 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 26,897 |
| • Density | 0.62/km2 (1.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 仲巴县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 仲巴縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Drongpa County or Zhongba County (Tibetan: འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང; Chinese: 仲巴县) is a county of Shigatse Prefecture in China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Located in the western part of Central Tibet (sometimes referred to as "western Tibet"), it is the birthplace of the Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra). Zhongba is said to mean "place of wild yaks" in Tibetan. The county seat is at Labrang, which is also called the "Drongpa Township".