Pasho County or Baxoi County (; }) is a

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under the administration of

Chamdo Prefecture Chamdo, officially Qamdo () and also known in Chinese as Changdu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town of Chengguan in Karuo District. Chamdo is Tibet's third largest city ...

in the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of ...

. The county seat is at Pema (), which is also called the Pasho Town. The county population is 35,273 (1999). It contains the Pomda Monastery and

Rakwa Tso Rakwa Tso (; ), also known as Rawu Tso or Ranwu Lake, is a lake in Baxoi County, Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, to the north of Arza Gongla Glacier, and to the south of Ngagung Tso. The lake covers an area of , and has an el ...

lake.

Geography

The Pasho County contains the

Brahmaputra The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, northeast India, and Bangladesh. It is also known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, Luit in Assamese, and Jamuna River in Bangla. I ...

–

Salween , ''Mae Nam Salawin'' ( , name_etymology = , image = Sweet_View_of_Salween_River_in_Tang_Yan_Township,_Shan_State,_Myanmar.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = Salween River in Shan State, Myanmar , map ...

water divide. The Ngajuk La pass () is on the divide. To the north, Ling Chu flows north and east draning into Salween. To the south,

Parlung Tsangpo Parlung Tsangpo or Parlung Zangbo (; ), also known as Palongzangbu River, is a river in Nyingchi, Tibet, China. It is the largest tributary on the left side of Yarlung Tsangpo The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo () is the upper st ...

flows south and west to drain into the

Tsangpo River The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo () is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is the longest river of Tibet and the fifth longest in China. The upper section is also called Da ...

(the Tibetan section of Brahmaputra).

Climate

Transport

China National Highway 318 China National Highway 318 (G318) runs from Shanghai to Zhangmu on the China-Nepal border. It is the longest China National Highway at in length and runs west from Shanghai towards Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, and ends in Tibet A ...

Maps

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)

Notes

References

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External links

Pasho County
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 12 October 2022.
Ling Chu basin
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 12 October 2022. Counties of Tibet Chamdo {{Qamdo-geo-stub