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Mainling County 米林县 • སྨན་གླིང་རྫོང་། |
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.png) Location of Mainling County within Tibet |
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 Mainling County
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| Coordinates: 29°36′0″N 94°12′7.20″E / 29.60000°N 94.2020000°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Nyingchi Prefecture |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Mainling County (Tibetan: ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་, Wylie: sman gling rdzong; Chinese: 米林县; pinyin: Mǐlín Xiàn) is a county of the Nyingtri Prefecture in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region.
Mainling County is located in the central-west of the Nyingtri Prefecture, at the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and between the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains. It covers an area of 9,471 square kilometres. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.
The mine resources of the county are gold dust, plaster, limestone, chromium and iron, etc.
The main economy style in Mainling County is farming and forest industry. The main species of the trees are fir, spruce, pine, oak, and cypress, etc. The total cumulation volume of woods is 40 million cubic metres. The special fruit productions are apples, apple pears, walnuts and peaches.
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