Babang ( Tibetan: ''Palpung''; ) is a rural

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in Dêgê County, Garzê Prefecture,

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. The township is primarily concentrated around the Pal Chu () river in the western reaches of the Chola Mountains on the east side of the

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. The township contains significant remaining tracts of the Hengduan conifer forests. Palpung2014

Babang is known for the 18th-century Palpung Monastery located on a ridge approximately above the centre of the township.

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{{authority control Populated places in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Township-level divisions of Sichuan

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