Nyalam (; ) is a small town in and the county seat of

Nyalam County Nyalam County (; Tibetan: gnya' lam rdzong) is a county in Tibet's Shigatse Prefecture. It borders on Nepal. The land area of the county is . The population as of 2003 was 10,000. The postal code for the county is 858300. The county seat is in N ...

in the

Shigatse Prefecture Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (; Nepali: ''सिगात्से''), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of , corresponds to the histor ...

of the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a Provinces of China, province-level Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China in Southwest China. I ...

, near the

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

border. It is 35 km from

Zhangmu Zhangmu (also from Tibetan as Dram or Zham, from Nepali as Khasa) is a customs town and port of entry located in Nyalam County on the Nepal-China border, just uphill and across the Bhote Koshi River from the Nepalese town of Kodari. At above se ...

town in the same county, which is the point of entry to

. Nyalam is situated at 3,750 metres (12,300 ft) above sea level. Once a town of stone buildings and tin roofs, Nyalam was known as TsongduDorje (1999), p. 305. () and was part of the historical

Tsang Province Tsang may refer to: * Ü-Tsang (), a traditional region of Tibet * Tsang (surname) * Zang (surname) (), romanized Tsang in Wade–Giles * Zeng Zeng (, ) is a Chinese family name. In Cantonese, it is Tsang; In Wade-Giles, such as those in Taiwan, ...

of Tibet before the annexation by China. Nepalese trans-himalayan traders called it Kuti ( Nepali: ) and also 'The Gate of Hell' because the old trail down to the Nepalese border was very treacherous. Today Nyalam is a fast-growing little town made of concrete buildings located on the Friendship Highway between

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level city, prefecture-level Lhasa (prefecture-level city), Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Regio ...

and the

border. South of Nyalam the road drops abruptly through the gorge of the Matsang Tsangpo ( Poiqu, Bhotekoshi River), which is the upper section or main tributary of

Sun Kosi The Sunkoshi, also spelt Sunkosi, is a river of Nepal that is part of the Koshi or Saptkoshi River system in Nepal. Sunkoshi has two source streams, one that arises within Nepal in Choukati, and the other more significant stream that flows in fr ...

in Nepal.Mayhew, Bradley and Kohn (2005), p. 193. The town is about 40 km from the

ese border and 150 km from Kathmandu.

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References

*Dowman, Keith. (1988). ''The Power-places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide'', pp. 73–79. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. *Gyume Dorje. (1999). ''Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan''. Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. . *Mayhew, Bradley and Kohn, Michael. (2005). ''Tibet'', 6th Edition. Lonely Planet. .

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Nyalam and Zhangmu photos

Populated places in Shigatse Township-level divisions of Tibet Nyalam County {{Xigazê-geo-stub

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