|
Jiaqiong Town
Jiaqiong or Jakhyung Town, also known as Jongnag (''Jakhyung'' བྱ་ཁྱུང་, ''Jiaqiong-zhen'' 佳琼镇) is a small town and township-level division in Baingoin County, Nagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It covers an area of and as of 2010 it had a population of 2926 people. Jiaqiong lies to the northwest of Beila Town, Beila, to the east of Amdo County, and south of Shuanghu County. History The township was established in 1960. In 1987 the original Jiaqiong, Qiongna Group and Baisong Townships were merged into Jiaqiong. In 2002 it merged with Kangri Township. Geography and geology The township-level division lies in the southeast of the Nagqu region. It covers an area of , accounting for 9.9% of the area of Baingoin County in its northeast. Jiaqiong lies northeast of Baingoin the northwest of Beila Town, Beila and west of Maqian Town, Maqian, and to the east of Amdo County, and south of Shuanghu County. The town itself is sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan is a standardized dialect of Tibetan spoken by the people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" classification of the Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan). In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are able to communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers cannot. Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan. Registers Like many languages, Lhasa Tibetan has a variety of language registers: * ( Wylie: , literally " demotic language"): the vernacular speech. * ( Wylie: , "honorifics or deference, courtesy"): the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalities Of China
The Han people are the largest ethnic group in mainland China. In 2010, 91.51% of the population were classified as Han (~1.2 billion). Besides the Han Chinese majority, 55 other ethnic (minority) groups are categorized in present-day China, numbering approximately 105 million people (8%), mostly concentrated in the bordering northwest, north, northeast, south and southwest but with some in central interior areas. The major ethnic minorities in China are the Zhuang (19.6 million), Hui (11.4 million), Uyghurs (11 million), Miao (11 million), Manchus (10.4 million), Yi (9.8 million), Tujia (9.6 million), Tibetans (7 million), Mongols (6.3 million), Buyei (3.5 million), Dong (3.5 million), Yao (3.3 million), Bai (2 million), Koreans (1.7 million), Hani (1.7 million), Li (1.6 million), Kazakhs (1.5 million), and Dai (1.2 million). At least 126,000 people from Canada, the United States and Europe are living in mainland China. In addition, there are a number of unrecog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nujiang River
The Salween is a Southeast Asian river, about long, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau south into the Andaman Sea. The Salween flows primarily within southwest China and eastern Myanmar, with a short section forming the border of Myanmar and Thailand. Throughout most of its course, it runs swiftly through rugged mountain canyons. Despite the river's great length, only the last are navigable, where it forms a modest estuary and delta at Mawlamyine. The river is known by various names along its course, including the Thanlwin (named after ''Elaeocarpus'' sp., an olive-like plant that grows on its banks) in Myanmar and the Nu Jiang (or Nu River, named after Nu people) in China. The commonly used spelling "Salween" is an anglicisation of the Burmese name dating from 19th-century British maps. Due to its great range of elevation and latitude coupled with geographic isolation, the Salween basin is considered one of the most ecologically diverse regions in the world, containing an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangong Lake
Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (; zh, s=班公错, p=Bān gōng cuò; ) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of . It is long and divided into five sublakes, called ''Pangong Tso'', ''Tso Nyak'', ''Rum Tso'' (twin lakes) and ''Nyak Tso''. Approximately 50% of the length of the overall lake lies within Tibet administered by China, 40% in Indian-administered Ladakh, and the remaining 10% is disputed and is a de facto buffer zone between India and China. The lake is wide at its broadest point. All together it covers almost 700 km2. During winter the lake freezes completely, despite being saline water. It has a land-locked basin separated from the Indus River basin by a small elevated ridge, but is believed to have been part of the Indus basin in prehistoric times. Names Historically, the lake is viewed as being made up five sublakes, which are connected through narrow water channels. The name ''Pangong Tso'' only applied to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daru Co
Daru is the capital of the Western Province (Papua New Guinea), Western Province of Papua New Guinea and a former Catholic bishopric. Daru town falls under the jurisdiction of Daru Urban LLG. The township is entirely located on an Daru Island, island that goes by the same name, which is located near the mouth of the Fly River on the western side of the Gulf, just north of Torres Strait and Far North Queensland in Australia. Daru had a recorded population of 15,142 as of the 2011 census. History Galician-Portuguese explorer, Luís Vaz de Torres, Luis Vaez de Torres, in the 1600s visited the location of the current town. Population The language of the Daru people is Kiwai language, Kiwai (South-West Coastal Kiwai), also spoken on neighbouring mainland villages (the name ''Kiwai'' comes from Kiwai Island some 60 km north-east in the Fly River River delta, delta). However, the Kiwai settlement of Daru is fairly recent. The original inhabitants, the Hiamo, were Western-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baingoin
Baingoin County (; zh, s=班戈县), formerly Namru Dzong (), is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Baingoin County got the name from the Baingoin Co (Bangor Co) which is a lake in center of the county. The county lies between lakes Namtso and Siling. Administrative divisions The county is divided into 4 towns and 6 townships A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...: Climate References Counties of Tibet Nagqu {{Nagqu-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuanghu County
Shuanghu County ( zh, s=双湖县), also transliterated from Tibetan as Tsonyi County or Co Nyi County (), is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, in the northernmost part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was formed in 2012, combining the territory of the former Shuanghu Special District ( zh, links=no, s=双湖特别区, ) with the eastern half of Nyima County. Much of the county is within the Changtang area. Shuanghu is the highest county of China with an average elevation of more than , while its county seat is located at . Both Tibetan and Chinese name translates to "twin lake" or "two lakes", the two lakes referred to as Khangro Lake (''khang ro tshwa kha'') and Rêjo Lake (''re co tshwa kha'') respectively. Shuanghu is very sparsely populated (averaging around 0.12 people per square kilometre, but concentrated in the southern portion of the county). The vast majority of its population practices nomadic pastoralism (mostly goats and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amdo County
Amdo County (; zh, s=安多县) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly by Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 . Its capital is Amdo Town, north of Lhasa. It contains the Amdo railway station on the new railway from Golmud to Lhasa Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa (city), Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining .... There is a major rail depot west of the town. Cona Lake lies to the southwest of the town of Amdo. Administrative divisions Amdo county contains the following 4 towns and 9 townships: Climate Transportation Amdo railway station offers a train operated once every 2 days to Lhasa, Lanzhou and Xining respectively. National highway G109 also passes downtown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
