Zhag'yab County

Zhag'yab County 察雅县 • བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Zhag'yab County within Tibet
Zhag'yab County Location in Tibet Show map of Tibet Zhag'yab County Zhag'yab County (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 30°39′22″N 97°34′01″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Chamdo
County seat	Yêndum
Area
• Total	8,255.59 km^2 (3,187.50 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	57,065
• Density	6.9/km^2 (18/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	chaya.changdu.gov.cn

Zhag'yab County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	察雅县
Traditional Chinese	察雅縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Cháyǎ Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie brag g.yab rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Zhag'yab Zong

Zhag'yab County (Tibetan: བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང, Wylie: brag g.yab rdzong, THL: drak yap dzong་; Chinese: 察雅县; pinyin: Chá yǎ xiàn), also spelled Dragyab,[2] Chagyab, Draya,[3] and Chaya,[2] is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Administrative divisions

Zhag'yab County is divided in 3 towns and 10 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Yêndum Town	烟多镇	Yānduō zhèn	དབྱེན་འདུམ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	dbyen 'dum grong rdal
Jamdün Town	香堆镇	Xiāngduī zhèn	བྱངས་མདུན་གྲོང་རྡལ།	byangs mdun grong rdal
Gyithang Town	吉塘镇	Jítáng zhèn	དཀྱིལ་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	dkyil thang grong rdal
Townships
Zangsar Township	宗沙乡	Zōngshā xiāng	གཙང་གསར་ཤང་།	gtsang gsar shang
Kargong Township	卡贡乡	Kǎgòng xiāng	མཁར་སྒང་ཤང་།	mkhar sgang shang
Rangzhub Township	荣周乡	Róngzhōu xiāng	རང་གྲུང་ཤང་།	rang grung shang
Pelri Township	巴日乡	Bārì xiāng	དཔལ་རི་ཤང་།	dpal ri shang
Acur Township	阿孜乡	Ãzī xiāng	ཝ་མཁར་ཤང་།	a tshur shang
Wakhar Township	王卡乡	Wángkǎ xiāng	ཨ་ཚུར་ཤང་།	wa mkhar shang
Shingka Township	新卡乡	Xīnkǎ xiāng	ཤིང་དཀའ་ཤང་།	shin dka' shang
Khentang Township	肯通乡	Kěntōng xiāng	འཁན་ཐང་ཤང་།	'khan thang shang
Korra Township	扩达乡	Kuòdá xiāng	འཁོར་རྭ་ཤང་།	'khor rwa shang
Cala Township (Calamdo)	察拉乡	Chálā xiāng	ཚྭ་ལ་ཤང་།	tswa la shang

References

1. "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
2. Tibet 2002: A Year Book, Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
3. Mehra, Parshotam (1974). The McMahon Line and After: A Study of the Triangular Contest on India's North-eastern Frontier Between Britain, China and Tibet, 1904-47. Macmillan. pp. 67–68. ISBN 9780333157374 – via archive.org.