Nang County

Nang County (Tibetan: སྣང་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 朗县) is a county under the jurisdiction of Nyingtri City in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Nang County 朗县 • སྣང་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Nang County (red) within Nyingchi City (yellow) and Tibet
Nang Location of the seat in Tibet Nang Nang (China)
Coordinates: 29°17′40″N 93°22′30″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nyingchi
County seat	Nang
Area
• Total	4,120 km2 (1,590 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	17,648
• Density	4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.langxian.gov.cn

Nang County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	朗县
Traditional Chinese	朗縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǎng Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྣང་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie snang rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Nang Zong

Geography

Nang is located in the south-west of Nyingtri, at the middle and lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. The county de jure covers an area of 4,120 square kilometres, including the area claimed but de facto under control of the Arunachal Pradesh, India. The average altitude is 5,000 metres above sea level.

Administrative divisions

Nang County contains 3 towns and 3 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Nang Town	朗镇	Lǎng zhèn	སྣང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	snang grong rdal
Dromda Town	仲达镇	Zhòngdá zhèn	སྒྲོམ་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sgrom mda' grong rdal
Dungkar Town	洞嘎镇	Dònggā zhèn	དུང་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ།	dung dkar grong rdal
Townships
Latok Township	拉多乡	Lāduō xiāng	ལ་ཐོག་ཤང་།	la thog shang
Kyemtong Township	金东乡	Jīndōng xiāng	སྐྱེམས་སྟོང་ཤང་།	skyem stong shang
Dem Township	登木乡	Dēngmù xiāng	ལྡེམ་ཤང་།	ldem shang
* includes areas claimed but currently under control of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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External links

• Official website of Nang County government