__NOTOC__ Noh, : "On the left bank of the river, and between it and the big bluff, stands the village of Noh, called also ''Odschong'', the first permanently inhabited place, as it was also the last, that we encountered in Tibet." also called Üchang or Wujang ()
KNAB Place Name Database, retrieved 27 July 2021. is a village in the

Rutog County Rutog County (, zh, s=日土县) is a Counties of China, county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is the new Rutog Town, located some or 700 miles west-northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Rutog Co ...

Ngari Prefecture Ngari Prefecture () or Ali Prefecture ( zh, s=阿里地区 , t=阿里地區 , p=Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and large ...

of the

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region of China. It is located on the northern bank of the eastern

Pangong Lake Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (; zh, s=班公错, p=Bān gōng cuò; ) 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 Nyak'', ...

(''Tso Ngombo''), watered by the Doma River (''Tsanger-schar''). The village is now part of the Domar Township. Noh is described as a temple town by European travellers. It is the only permanently inhabited place on the northern bank of the Pangong Lake. It is frequently referred to in the British records of the Pangong Lake, but the British (and "foreigners" in general) were not generally allowed to visit it.

Geography

The state highway S520 called Banying Highway connects Noh with the

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and the Kongka Pass in the

Chang Chenmo Valley Chang Chenmo River or Changchenmo River is a tributary of the Shyok River, part of the Indus River system. It is at the southern edge of the disputed Aksai Chin region and north of the Pangong Lake basin in Ladakh. The source of Chang Chenmo is ...

. The latter is on the

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with India. S520 also connects to the National Highway G219 (Aksai Chin road) in the east.

Current status

As of 2009, there are 818 people living in the village.乌江村 at baidu.com There is also an army base of a border defence company, which is said to have the hard task of defending a long border. According to the Xizang Government, the villagers and the army get along well with each other.

Historical maps

File:1851 map of Pangong Lake by Strachey.jpg, The Pangong Lake area in a map of Ngari Khorsum by Henry Strachey, 1851 File:Trade-routes-via-Pangong-and-Changchenmo-Douglas-Forsythe-1878.jpg, Noh along a trade route of Ladakh (1873) File:China West 1906-08 Sven Hedin.jpg, Map of the expeditions of

Sven Hedin Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO,Wennerholm, Eric (1978) ''Sven Hedin – En biografi'', Bonniers, Stockholm (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator ...

(1906-8) including Noh ( RGS, early 20th century) File:Txu-oclc-6654394-ni-44-3rd-ed.jpg, Map including Noh (

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, 1950) File:Operational Navigation Chart G-7, 6th edition.jpg, Map showing Shan-ho ( DMA, 1980) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 g-7d.jpg, Map showing Wu-chiang (Wüjang) ( DMA, 1995)

Notes

References

Bibliography

* * * * {{citation , last=Strachey , first=Henry , title=Physical Geography of Western Tibet , publisher=William Clows and Sons , location=London , date=1854 , url=https://archive.org/details/physicalgeograp00stragoog , via=archive.org , ref={{sfnref, Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet, 1854 Populated places in Ngari Prefecture Pangong Lake Rutog County Villages in China