Biru County (; ) is the most populated county within

Nagqu Nagqu (also Naqu, Nakchu, or Nagchu; ; ) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet. On May 7, 2018, the former Nagqu Prefecture was officially declared the sixth prefecture-level city in Tibet after Lhasa, ...

of the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of � ...

. The name means "female yak". Either of the following pronunciations can be considered correct in Standard Tibetan: ìru~ ìru(conventionally written ''Biru'' in English) or �ìru~ �ìru(conventionally ''Driru'').

Geography

Diru/Driru/ Biru lies in the southwest part of the former province of Kham. To its east is Chamdo and to its west Nagchu. Diru/Driru/Biru is located on the

Gyalmo Ngulchu , ''Mae Nam Salawin'' ( , name_etymology = , image = Sweet_View_of_Salween_River_in_Tang_Yan_Township,_Shan_State,_Myanmar.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = Salween River in Shan State, Myanmar , map ...

River (upper part of

Salween River , ''Mae Nam Salawin'' ( , name_etymology = , image = Sweet_View_of_Salween_River_in_Tang_Yan_Township,_Shan_State,_Myanmar.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = Salween River in Shan State, Myanmar , map ...

). Diru is bordered by Sog county སོག་རྫོང་། to the northwest and the extreme east of Palbar (

Banbar County Banbar County, (; ) is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People' ...

) དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་, is also surrounded by Lhari county ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་/ to the south, and extreme north to the Nagchu county. Sepu Kangri is located in the county.

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