13-06-2025 Zanda County or Tsamda County (, zh, s=札达县) is a county in the

Ngari Prefecture Ngari Prefecture () or Ali Prefecture ( zh, s=阿里地区 , t=阿里地區 , p=Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and large ...

to the extreme

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of the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), often shortened to Tibet in English or Xizang in Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China. It was established in 1965 to replace the ...

of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the

Guge Guge () was an ancient dynastic kingdom in Western Tibet. The kingdom was centered in present-day Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. At various points in history after the 10th century AD, the kingdom held sway over a vast a ...

kingdom. Zanda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”, an allusion to the grassy river bed of the

Sutlej The Sutlej River or the Satluj River is a major river in Asia, flowing through China, India and Pakistan, and is the longest of the five major rivers of the Punjab region. It is also known as ''Satadru''; and is the easternmost tributary of t ...

river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda horse ('' Hipparion zandaense'') skeletons have been found in Zanda County's Sutlej basin.Ancient horse skeleton offers glimpse into Tibetan past
horsetalk.co.nz, 25 April 2012. Zanda County is bounded by India's

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...

state to the west,

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State to the south,

Ladakh Ladakh () is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a Kashmir#Kashmir dispute, dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India an ...

to the northwest, Gar County to the northeast and Burang County to the southeast.

Administrative divisions

Zanda county is divided into 1

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and 4 townships:

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Sutlej river flowing through the Zanda County
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 20 July 2021. Counties of Tibet Ngari Prefecture {{Ngari-geo-stub

Administrative divisions

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