:''not to be confused with
Naktsang Town in the
Haa District
Haa District ( Dzongkha: ཧཱ་; Wylie: ''Haa''; alternative spellings include "Ha") is one of the 20 dzongkhag or districts comprising Bhutan. An alternative name for the district is "Hidden-Land Rice Valley." It the second least-populate ...
of southwestern
Bhutan
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Xainza (also Naktsang,
[Dorje (2009), p. 397.] Xainza Town or Shantsa) is a town and township-level administrative unit and seat of
Shentsa County or
Xainza County
Xainza County, also Shantsa, Shentsa, (; ) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. In 1999 the county had a population of 16,190.
Geography
The capital lies at Naktsang Town or Xainza. The county covers an area of . Un ...
,
Nagqu Prefecture
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, ...
,
Tibet Autonomous Region
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,
China
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.
It covers an area of 2146 square kilometres and in 2004 had a total population of about 17,000.
The township was established by the Chinese in 1961.
The main occupation is animal husbandry, mainly yak, goat and sheep rearing.
Villages
The township-level division contains the following settlements:
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Gasangduo (neighborhood) (嘎桑多居委会)
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Rongsaiduo (neighborhood) (融塞多居委会)
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Nacha
Nacha manages the development, administration, and governance of the ACH Network, the backbone for the electronic movement of money and data in the United States, and is an association for the payments industry. The ACH Network serves as a netwo ...
(拿查村)
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Luopu
Lop, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency County (, Uyghur: ), also Luopu, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (from Mandarin Chinese), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghu ...
(罗普村 )
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Qiangrong (羌戎村)
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Qubu (曲布村)
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Yongzhu Woma (永珠沃玛村)
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Rennaduo (仁那多村)
Footnotes
References
* Dorje, Gyurme. ''Footprint Tibet Handbook''. 4th Edition. (2009) Bath, U.K.
External links
Photo of Xainza Town
{{Nagqu Prefecture
Populated places in Nagqu
Township-level divisions of Tibet
Xainza County