Burang County

Burang County 普兰县 • སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་།
County
Gurla Mandhata 7,694 metres (25,243 ft)
Location of Burang County within Tibet
Country	China
Region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari Prefecture
County capital	Burang Town
Area
• Total	12,497 km2 (4,825 sq mi)
Population
• Total	9,657
• Density	0.77/km2 (2.0/sq mi)
	2010 Census
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)

Burang County ( Standard Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲང Chinese: 普兰县; Pinyin: Pǔlán Xiàn) is called Purang in Tibetan, and the county capital is also known as Burang or Purang in Tibetan and Taklakot in Nepali. It is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China.

Burang County has TAR's south-western border with Nepal's Karnali Zone, Humla District. Further west, India's Uttarakhand State, Pithoragarh district borders. Buddhist, Hindu and Jain pilgrims going to Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash enter from Nepal via Simikot, and from India via Dharchula.

Beyond the border with India, the county is bounded by other Ngari Prefecture counties Zanda to the west, Gar to the northwest and Gê'gyai to the north. To the east is Gamba County of Shigatse Prefecture.