Bünsum, Gyaimain (; ) is a
village
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in
Qonggyai County
Qonggyai County or Chongye County, (, ) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
History
Qonggyai contains the Valley of the Kings, a series of graveyard tumuli, approximately south of Tsetang, Tibet, near the town of Chongye or ...
,
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 ...
of
China
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.
[Wu Zhenhua (武振华), Xizang Diming (西藏地名; Place Names in Tibet), p.28, Chinese Zangxue Press (中国藏学出版社) 1996, ] It lies at an
altitude
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of 4,755 metres (15,603 feet).
Administrative division codes: 542225 202 203
It was formerly a village of
Bünsum township of Qonggyai (not
Bünsum township of Dêrong), but the Bünsum township of Qonggyai was eventually defunct.
See also
*
List of towns and villages in Tibet Autonomous Region
Notes
Populated places in Shannan, Tibet
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