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Doklam
Doklam (), called Donglang ( zh, c=洞朗) by China, is an area in Chumbi Valley with a high plateau and a valley, lying between China's Yadong County to the north, Bhutan's Haa District to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. Since the 1960s, China and Bhutan have disputed sovereignty over the Doklam area. The dispute has not been resolved despite several rounds of border negotiations between Bhutan and China. The area is of strategic importance to all three countries. In 1988, the People's Liberation Army, Chinese People's Liberation Army entered the Doklam plateau and successfully took control of the area. In June 2017, China attempted to extend a road on the Doklam Plateau southward, prompting Indian troops to enter the area in an attempt to stop the project, which triggered a two-month 2017 China–India border standoff, border standoff between the two sides. On 28 August, India and China withdrew their troops from the standoff in Doklam. Since then, China has co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gipmochi
Gipmochi (Gyemo Chen or Gamochen, 'The Great Queen') is a mountain in the Lower Himalayas in south central Asia. Rising to a height of , the mountain sits on the border between the northern Indian state of Sikkim and Bhutan. China claims Gipmochi as the China–India–Bhutan tri-junction point. Bhutan and India, however, claim that the tri-junction is 6.5 km to the north, at Batang La. Geography Mount Gipmochi is a Himalayan peak rising to , on the southwestern shoulder of the Doklam plateau. The plateau is at the intersection between India, Bhutan and Tibet, and is formed by the joining of two ridges, Dongkya Range in the north and Zompelri ridge (or Jampheri ridge) in the south, via a Doka La pass in the middle. Technically Gipmochi is part of the Zompelri ridge, which is a curved semicircular formation on the southern side of the plateau. The Dongkya Range, on the northern side, forms the dividing line between Sikkim (part of India) and the Chumbi Valley (par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chumbi Valley
The Chumbi Valley, called Dromo or Tromo in Tibetan, is a valley in the Himalayas that projects southwards from the Tibetan plateau, intervening between Sikkim and Bhutan. It is coextensive with the administrative unit Yadong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The Chumbi Valley is connected to Sikkim to the southwest via the mountain passes of Nathu La and Jelep La. The valley is at an altitude of , and being on the south side of the Himalayas, enjoys a wetter and more temperate climate than most of Tibet. The valley supports some vegetation in the form of the Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests and transitions to the Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows in the north. The plant '' Pedicularis chumbica'' ( 春丕马先蒿) is named after the valley. The 1904 Younghusband Expedition of British India passed through the Chumbi Vally on its way to Lhasa. At the end of the expedition, the British took control of the Chumbi Valley in lieu of a war indemnit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dramana
Bji Gewog (Dzongkha: སྦྱིས་) is a gewog (village block) of Haa District, Bhutan. It is the northernmost gewog of the Haa District, bordering China's Chumbi Valley (Yadong county). The gewog has mostly mountainous terrain, with rivers flowing into Amo Chu in the west and the Ha Chu in the east. China claims a large part of the gewog as its territory and has recently started building roads and villages in the border areas.Vishnu SomExclusive: In Latest Threat To India, China Builds Illegal Villages Inside Bhutan NDTV News, 13 January 2022. Geography In 2002, the Ninth Plan document reported that the Bji Gewog had an area of 832 square kilometres and contained 234 households in 8 villages. In 2013, in the Eleventh Plan document, the area was reported as 802.2 square kilometres. The reduction of 30 square kilometres is attributable to a possible cession of the Kongbu region to China. It is not being shown as belonging to Bhutan in the current maps. The Bji Gewog most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pangda
Pangda (庞达村) is a village constructed by China in the Doklam region near the India-Bhutan-China trijunction. It is approximately 10 km east of the trijunction in territory claimed by China but shown as part of Bhutan in international maps. The village was constructed in 2020 on the bank of the Amo Chhu river (or Torsa River). Media reports in November 2020 said that the village was constructed approximately within Bhutanese territory based on third-party satellite images. This was later denied by Bhutan and China. History Background China has had ongoing claims to the Doklam region at the border between its Yadong County and Bhutan's Haa District near the trijunction with India. The region is the basin of a small stream called Doklam stream (also called Torsa Nala), which originates on the Doklam plateau and joins the Amo Chhu river 15 km downstream. In 2017, Indian and Chinese forces skirmished on the Doklam plateau after China attempted to extend a road acr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinchulumpa
Bji Gewog (Dzongkha: སྦྱིས་) is a gewog (village block) of Haa District, Bhutan. It is the northernmost gewog of the Haa District, bordering China's Chumbi Valley (Yadong county). The gewog has mostly mountainous terrain, with rivers flowing into Amo Chu in the west and the Ha Chu in the east. China claims a large part of the gewog as its territory and has recently started building roads and villages in the border areas.Vishnu SomExclusive: In Latest Threat To India, China Builds Illegal Villages Inside Bhutan NDTV News, 13 January 2022. Geography In 2002, the Ninth Plan document reported that the Bji Gewog had an area of 832 square kilometres and contained 234 households in 8 villages. In 2013, in the Eleventh Plan document, the area was reported as 802.2 square kilometres. The reduction of 30 square kilometres is attributable to a possible cession of the Kongbu region to China. It is not being shown as belonging to Bhutan in the current maps. The Bji Gewog most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangbay Gewog
Sangbay or Sangbaykha () Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Haa District, Bhutan. It is one of the western gewogs of the Haa district sharing borders with the Samtse District, India's Sikkim state and China's Chumbi Valley (Yadong County). The latter border has been contested by China, which claims the Doklam region as its territory. In recent years, China has begun to build villages in its claimed area.Vishnu SomPics Expose China's Inroads Near Doklam - Bid To Bypass Indian Defences? NDTV News, 20 July 2022. Geography In 2013, the Eleventh Plan document reported that the gewog had an area of 432.8 square kilometres, with 97 per cent of it covered by forest. The gewog mainly consists of the basin of the Amo Chu river after it enters the gewog near Sinchela. (Above this point, only the left bank of the river is included in Bhutan; the right bank belongs to China's Chumbi Valley.) The upper part of the river valley in the gewog is said to be narrow with steep ridges. It has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siliguri Corridor
The Siliguri Corridor, often dubbed the "Chicken's Neck", is a stretch of land around the city of Siliguri in West Bengal, India. at the narrowest section, this geopolitical and geoeconomical corridor connects the seven states of northeast India to the Mainland India, rest of India. The countries of Nepal and Bangladesh lie on each side of the corridor and the Kingdom of Bhutan lies at the northern end of the corridor. The Kingdom of Sikkim formerly lay on the northern side of the corridor, until its merger with India in 1975. The city of Siliguri is the major city in the area and the central transfer point connecting Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sikkim, Darjeeling district, Darjeeling, Northeast India and mainland India. According to the Indian Army, the Siliguri Corridor is the Army's strongest defensive line. History The partition of India led to the formation of the Siliguri Corridor through the creation of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) after the Partition of Bengal (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinchengang
Rinchengang : "By order of Military Control Commission freedom of movement is not being permitted to our Trade Agents even in the vicinity where the Trade Agencies are located. For example the I.T.A. Yatung was not permitted to go to Rinchengang, only six miles from Yatung..." : "Renqinggang, also known as Rinchengang, is located south of Sharsingma in Yadong country." () or Renqinggang () is a town in the Chumbi Valley and the headquarters of the Xia Yadong Township of Yadong County, Tibet region of China. It is in the valley of Amo Chu where the route from Sikkim's Jelep La pass meets Amo Chu. It is also close to the Bhutan–China border (Doklam area), which is currently in dispute. In December 2018, Rinchengang village had a population of around 550 people. The inhabitants are engaged in animal grazing or work as forest rangers. Some also carry supplies to Chinese border troops. In 2003, the governments of India and China agreed to use Rinchengang as a border trade m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathu La
Nathu La(, Sikkimese language, Sikkimese: རྣ་ཐོས་ལ་) is a mountain pass in the Dongkya Range of the Himalayas between China's Yadong County in Tibet, and the Indian states of Sikkim. But minor touch of Bengal in South Asia. The pass, at , connects the towns of Kalimpong and Gangtok to the villages and towns of the lower Chumbi Valley. The pass was surveyed by John Ware Edgar, J. W. Edgar in 1873, who described the pass as being used for trade by Tibetans. Francis Younghusband used the pass in 1903–04, as did a diplomatic British delegation to Lhasa in 1936–37, and Ernst Schäfer in 1938–39. In the 1950s, trade in the Kingdom of Sikkim used this pass. Diplomatically sealed by China and India after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, the pass saw skirmishes between the two countries in coming years, including the Nathu La and Cho La clashes, clashes in 1967 which resulted in fatalities on both sides. Nathu La has often been compared to Jelep La, a mountain pass situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dongkya Range
Dongkya or Dongkhya range, is a mountain range in the Himalayas that forms the eastern border of Sikkim, a state of India. Its northern tip extends to Dongkha La, and as it moves southwards, sometimes referred to as the Chola range, it is cut by Cho La, Yak La, Nathu La and Jelep La passes. Dongkya range and Chola range S. K. Samanta explains in the ''Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies'', Political importance It was established as the border between Sikkim and Tibet's Chumbi Valley by the 1890 Convention of Calcutta reached between British India and Qing China. The Convention deemed the Dongkya Range to end at Mount Gipmochi at the southern end, which was defined as the trijunction between India, Tibet and Bhutan. However the Doklam plateau at the southern end gives rise to complications and the present day border dispute between Bhutan and China. Dongkya Range is politically important, however S. G. Burrard, H. H. Hayden and A. Heron comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibet
Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups such as Mongols, Monpa people, Monpa, Tamang people, Tamang, Qiang people, Qiang, Sherpa people, Sherpa, Lhoba people, Lhoba, and since the 20th century Han Chinese and Hui people, Hui. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of . Located in the Himalayas, the highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain, rising above sea level. The Tibetan Empire emerged in the 7th century. At its height in the 9th century, the Tibetan Empire extended far beyond the Tibetan Plateau, from the Tarim Basin and Pamirs in the west, to Yunnan and Bengal in the southeast. It then divided into a variety of territories. The bulk of western and central Tibet (Ü-Tsang) was often at least nominally unified under a ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dichu River
The Jaldhaka River (Pron:/ˌdʒælˈdɑːkə/) (), also known as Dichu, is a tributary of the Brahmaputra and a trans-boundary river flowing through India, Bhutan and Bangladesh with a length of 233 kilometres. It originates from the Bitang Lake at Kupup, Gangtok District, Sikkim, near the Jelep La pass below Dongkya Mountain Range. It flows through Pakyong District of Sikkim, India and then passes through forests of Samtse District of Bhutan where it flows for around 40 kilometres and then re-enters India at Bindu, Kalimpong district. Further it passes through Neora Valley National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Gorumara National Park in West Bengal along with cities and towns, like Paren, Gairibas, Jhalong, Dhupguri, Falakata, Mathabhanga and flows through Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar districts in West Bengal, India before entering Bangladesh at Mogolhat, Lalmonirhat District of Rangpur Division. It is known as Dharla River in Bangladesh and flows thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
