Gelling, or Geling, is a village and the headquarters of an

eponymous An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Usage of the word The term ''epon ...

circle A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is const ...

in the

Upper Siang district Upper Siang (Pron:/ˈsjæŋ or ˈsɪæŋ/) is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is the fourth least populous district in the country (out of 640). History The majority of the people are of the Adi trib ...

in the Indian state of

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

. The

Brahmaputra River 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. It ...

(called "Siang" in Arunachal Pradesh) enters India near Gelling. Gelling village is located around 35 km upstream from

Tuting Tuting is a town and headquarters of an eponymous Tehsil, circle in the Upper Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is situated on the bank of Brahmaputra, Siang river (Brahmaputra) at a distance of south of McMahon Line, Line of Actua ...

. The Gelling Circle contains the basin of the Siang river on both the sides, on the border of the

Medog County Medog (in Tibetan) or Motuo (in Chinese) may refer to: * Mêdog County Mêdog, or Metok, or Motuo County (; ), also known as Pemako ( meaning "Lotus Array", ), is a county as well as a traditional region of the prefecture-level city of Nyingch ...

of China's

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 ...

. It has a population of 742 people living in six villages. The other villages in the Circle are Bishing, Bona, Kopu, Mayum and Norbudling. The Geling Circle along with the Singa Circle is organised as a community development block with 19 villages in total.Upper Siang District Census Handbook, Part A
Census of India, 2012, pp. 27, 103.

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Gelling Circle
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 19 January 2022. Villages in Upper Siang district Borders of Arunachal Pradesh Upper Siang district {{ArunachalPradesh-geo-stub