Baingoin County (; ) is a county within
Nagqu
Nagqu (also Naqu, Nakchu, or Nagchu; ; ) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet. On May 7, 2018, the former Nagqu Prefecture was officially declared the sixth prefecture-level city in Tibet after Lhasa, ...
of the
Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a Provinces of China, province-level Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China in Southwest China. I ...
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County got the name from the lake Drang-khog () which is in center of county. County lies between lakes
Namtso and
Siling.
The county is divided into ten
towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and
townships:
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Pubao Town (, ''Pubao-zhen'' )
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Baoji Township (, ''Baoji-xiang'' )
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Beila Town (, ''Beila-zhen'' )
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Jiaqiong Town
Jiaqiong or Jakhyung Town, also known as Jongnag (''Jakhyung'' བྱ་ཁྱུང་, ''Jiaqiong-zhen'' 佳琼镇) is a small town and township-level division in Baingoin County, Nagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of ...
(, ''Jiaqiong-zhen'' )
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Dechen Town
Dechen () is a Tibetan name meaning "great bliss". It is a Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit term (). People with the name Dechen include:
*Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo (1878–1941), lama of the Gelug school
*Pema Dechen (1918–1991), third ...
(, ''Deqing-zhen'' )
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Maqian Township (, ''Maqian-xiang'' )
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Mentang Raktsek Township
Mentang Raktsek (མན་ཐང་རགས་རྩེག་, ''Mendang-xiang'' 门当乡) is a township in Baingoin County, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.
The township is situated on an elevation of 4,617 metres (15,148&n ...
(, ''Mendang-xiang'' )
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Qinglong Township (, ''Qinglong-xiang'' )
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Xênkyêr Township (, ''Xinjixiang'' )
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Nyima Township
Nyima may refer to:
*Nyima County, a county in Tibet
*Nyima (Baingoin), a township in Tibet
* Nyima (village), a village in Tibet
* Nyima (Africa), a West-African community
* Nyima language, a language of Nigeria
*Nyima languages, a pair of langua ...
(, ''Nima-xiang'' )
Climate
References
Counties of Tibet
Nagqu
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