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Risum Township
geonames.org, retrieved 30 October 2022.
() or Risong Township
(),
[
] traditionally called Roksum in English,
is a
township
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
of
Rutog County
Rutog County (),
(in ) is a county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The county seat is the new Rutog Town, located some or 700 miles west-northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Rutog County sh ...
, in far western
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 ...
, People's Republic of China. It is directly serviced by
China National Highway 219
China National Highway 219 (G219; Chinese: '' Guódào219'') is a highway which runs along the entire western and southern border of the People's Republic of China, from Kom-Kanas Mongolian ethnic township in Xinjiang to Dongxing in Guangxi. ...
.
The closest airport is the
Ali Kunsha Airport.
Villages
Villages incorporated in the township are:
Risong Township
National Bureau of Statistics, retrieved 30 October 2022.
* Deru Village (德汝村)[, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency] lies at an altitude of . The village has a population of about 14 people. It is located south of Pangong Tso
Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (;
; hi, text=पैंगोंग झील) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of . It is long and divided into five sublakes, called ''Pangong Tso'', ''Tso N ...
, a large lake, and north of the seat of Ngari Prefecture
Ngari Prefecture () or Ali Prefecture () is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Shiquanhe.
History
Nga ...
. It lies approximately south of Rutog and north of Jaggang.
Notes
References
Bibliography
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Populated places in Tibet
Township-level divisions of Tibet
Rutog County
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