Zanda County

Zanda County 札达县 • རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་། Tsamda
County
Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang.
Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Zanda Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Show map of Ngari Zanda Zanda (Tibet) Show map of Tibet Zanda Zanda (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Zanda County government): 31°29′03″N 79°41′11″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari
County seat	Tholing
Area
• Total	24,601.59 km^2 (9,498.73 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	8,454
• Density	0.34/km^2 (0.89/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	zd.al.gov.cn

Zanda County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	札达县
Traditional Chinese	札達縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhádá Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie rtsa mda' rdzong THL tsa da dzong Tibetan Pinyin Zanda Zong

Zanda County or Tsamda County (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང, Chinese: 札达县) is a county in the Ngari Prefecture to the extreme west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the Guge kingdom.

Zanda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”,[2]^[unreliable source?] an allusion to the grassy river bed of the Sutlej river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in Zanda County's Sutlej basin.[3]

Zanda County is bounded by India's Himachal Pradesh state to the west, Uttarakhand State to the south, Ladakh to the northwest, Gar County to the northeast and Burang County to the southeast.

Administrative divisions

Zanda county is divided into 1 town and 4 townships:

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Town
Thoding Town (Tholing)	托林镇	Tuōlín zhèn	མཐོ་ལྡིང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	mtho lding grong rdal
Townships
Dzarong Township	萨让乡	Sàràng xiāng	རྫ་རོང་ཤང་།	rdza rong shang
Danbab Township (Daba)	达巴乡	Dábā xiāng	མདའ་འབབ་ཤང་།	mda' 'bab shang
Diyag Township	底雅乡	Dǐyǎ xiāng	ཏི་ཡག་ཤང་།	ti yag shang
Qangzê Township	香孜乡	Xiāngzī xiāng	བྱང་རྩེ་ཤང་།	byang rtse shang
Qusum Township	曲松乡	Qǔsōng xiāng	ཆུ་གསུམ་ཤང་།	chu gsum shang
Tsosib Sumkyil Township (Churup Sumkhel)	楚鲁松杰乡	Chǔlǔsōngjié xiāng	ཚོ་སྲིབ་གསུམ་དཀྱིལ་ཤང་།	tshe srib gsum dkyil shang

See also

• Tsaparang
• Chepzi

References

1. "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of Ngari Prefecture. 2021-06-10.
2. Zanda County, Tibetan Trekking, retrieved 20 July 2021.
3. Ancient horse skeleton offers glimpse into Tibetan past, horsetalk.co.nz, 25 April 2012.

Further reading

• Swenson, Karen (19 March 2000). "Echoes of a Fallen Kingdom". New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2013.

External links

• Sutlej river flowing through the Zanda County, OpenStreetMap, retrieved 20 July 2021.