Nyalam County

Nyalam County
Nyalam County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	聂拉木县
Traditional Chinese	聶拉木縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nièlāmù Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	gnya' lam rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Nyalam Zong

Nyalam County

གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་། · 聂拉木县
Nyalam County གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་། · 聂拉木县
County
	Milarepa's Cave
	Location of Nyalam County within Tibet Autonomous Region
	Nyalam Location of the county seat in Tibet Nyalam Nyalam (China)
	Coordinates (Nyalam County government): 28°09′19″N 85°58′56″E / 28.1552°N 85.9822°E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Xigazê
County seat	Nyalam
Area
• Total	7,863.92 km2 (3,036.28 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	17,009
• Density	2.2/km2 (5.6/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.nlmx.gov.cn

Nyalam County (Chinese: 聂拉木县; Tibetan: གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་།) is a county in Shigatse, Tibet, China.^[2] It borders on Nepal.

The land area of the county is 7,903 km² (3,051 sq mi). The population as of 2003 was 10,000. The postal code for the county is 858300.

The county seat is in Nyalam Town.

The other town of the county is Zhangmu, also known by its Tibetan name Dram, or Nepali Khasa. It is located near the border and is the point of entry from Nepal. At "merely" 2,300 meters elevation about the sea level, Zhangmu has mild and humid subtropical climate, which is a rarity for Tibet.

It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Nyalam, Tingri, Dinggyê, and Kyirong).^[3]

^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
^ Department of Forestry, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, ‘’Report on Protected Lands in the Tibet Autonomous Region’’ Lhasa: Tibet Autonomous Region Government Publishing House, 2006

[1] "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.

[Croddy_2022_p._698-2] Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.

[3] Department of Forestry, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, ‘’Report on Protected Lands in the Tibet Autonomous Region’’ Lhasa: Tibet Autonomous Region Government Publishing House, 2006

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