The Kingdom of Powo or sPo bo (; ) was a kingdom founded in the 13th century, located in present-day

Bomê County Pome County () or Bomê County ( zh, s=波密县) is a county of Nyingchi Prefecture in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Historically known as Powo or Poyul, it was the seat of a quasi-independent kingdom until the early 20th cent ...

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 s ...

. The monarchs of Powo were descendants of

Drigum Tsenpo Drigum Tsenpo was the 8th king of Tibet. According to Tibetan mythology, he was the first king of Tibet to lose his immortality when he angered his stable master, Lo-ngam. Legend states that rulers of Tibet descended from heaven to earth ...

, and used the title Kanam Gyalpo (''kaH gnam rgyal po'') or Kanam Depa (''kaH gnam sde pa''). The kingdom was annexed by Qing China in 1910, but the King restored it the next year. In 1928, the kingdom was annexed by

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Former kingdoms in Tibet States and territories disestablished in 1928 {{Tibet-stub