Zayü

Zayul County ()
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invoked 31 August 2022. or Zayü () is a county in the

Nyingchi Prefecture Nyingchi (), also known as Linzhi ( zh, s=林芝, p=Linzhi) or Nyingtri, is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. The administrative seat of Nyingchi is Bayi District. Nyingchi is the location of Buch ...

in the southeastern part of the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), often shortened to Tibet in English or Xizang in Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China. It was established in 1965 to replace the ...

, China. The historical Zayul region is marked by the basin of the Zayul River, with its two branches: ''Rongto Chu'' (or the western Zayul River) and ''Zayul Chu'' (or the eastern Zayul River). The two branches join near the town of Rima. After the junction, the Zayul river enters India's

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where it is called Lohit. The Zayul county borders

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and

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

to the south and China's

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province to the southeast. To the northeast lies the Pome County and to the northwest the

Medog County Medog (in Tibetan) or Motuo (in Chinese) may refer to: * Mêdog County, a county in Tibet * Mêdog (village), a village in Tibet {{geodis