Rutog Town

Rutog Town / Rituzhen

རུ་ཐོང་གྲོང་རྡལ / 日土镇
Derub, Gyelgosang
Rutog Town / Rituzhen རུ་ཐོང་གྲོང་རྡལ / 日土镇 Derub, Gyelgosang
	Rutog Town / Rituzhen
	Coordinates: 33°23′6″N 79°43′48″E / 33.38500°N 79.73000°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture	Ngari Prefecture
County	Rutog County
Elevation	4,280 m (14,040 ft)
Population
• Total	1,000
Time zone	UTC+8 (CST)

The Rutog Town^[1]^[2] (Tibetan: རུ་ཐོང་གྲོང་རྡལ, ZYPY: Rutog Chongdai),^[3] called Rituzhen in Chinese (Chinese: 日土镇 ;pinyin: Rìtǔ zhèn),^[3] is a town and the seat of Rutog County in the far western Tibet Autonomous Region. It is also a major military base for China near the disputed border with India allowing it to press its claims militarily.^[4]^[5]

The town was built around in 1999 by the Chinese administration of Tibet on the China National Highway 219.^[6] Prior to that, the seat of the county was at Rudok or Rutog Dzong, about 10 km northwest, which had been its capital for more than a thousand years.^[7]^[8]

The new Rutog Town is located 120 kilometres by road northwest of Shiquanhe (also called Ali or Ngari) and 10 kilometres south of Lake Pangong.^[9] The town has a population of about 1000 people.^{[citation needed]}

^ Webster's 21st Century World Atlas. Barnes & Noble Books. 1999. p. 94 – via archive.org. Rutog
^ Complete Atlas Of The World (3 ed.). Penguin Random House. 2016. p. 238 – via archive.org. Rutog
^ ^a ^b Tibet Autonomous Region (China): Ngari Prefecture, KNAB place name database.
^ Cite error: The named reference Sushant Singh was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference Kannan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Lonely Planet 1999, p. 264: "Further south the road skirts around the eastern end of Lake Palgon [Pangong] and soon after arrives at new Rutok Xian, where a permit checkpoint awaits the unwary. The old town of Rutok, overlooked by a ruined hilltop dzong (fort) and a recently restored monastery, is about 10 km west of the road and a few kilometres to the south of the new town."
^ Wakefield, E. B. (1961), "A Journey to Western Tibet, 1929" (PDF), The Alpine Journal: 118–133
^ Chan, Victor (1994), Tibet Handbook, Chico, CA: Moon Publications, p. 980, ISBN 9780918373908 – via archive.org: "After 3 1/2 hr (147 km) [from Ali] reach a road junction. The left fork goes to Rutok Xian, the right to Yecheng."
^ Lonely Planet 1999, p. 279.

[1999websters-1] Webster's 21st Century World Atlas. Barnes & Noble Books. 1999. p. 94 – via archive.org. Rutog

[3rdedition-2] Complete Atlas Of The World (3 ed.). Penguin Random House. 2016. p. 238 – via archive.org. Rutog

[KNAB-3] Tibet Autonomous Region (China): Ngari Prefecture, KNAB place name database.

[Sushant_Singh-4] Cite error: The named reference Sushant Singh was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Kannan-5] Cite error: The named reference Kannan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[permit_checkpoint-6] Lonely Planet 1999, p. 264: "Further south the road skirts around the eastern end of Lake Palgon [Pangong] and soon after arrives at new Rutok Xian, where a permit checkpoint awaits the unwary. The old town of Rutok, overlooked by a ruined hilltop dzong (fort) and a recently restored monastery, is about 10 km west of the road and a few kilometres to the south of the new town."

[7] Wakefield, E. B. (1961), "A Journey to Western Tibet, 1929" (PDF), The Alpine Journal: 118–133

[8] Chan, Victor (1994), Tibet Handbook, Chico, CA: Moon Publications, p. 980, ISBN 9780918373908 – via archive.org: "After 3 1/2 hr (147 km) [from Ali] reach a road junction. The left fork goes to Rutok Xian, the right to Yecheng."

[FOOTNOTELonely_Planet1999279-9] Lonely Planet 1999, p. 279.

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