Namling County
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Namling County 南木林县 • རྣམ་གླིང་རྫོང་། |
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.png) Location of Namling County within Tibet |
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 Namling County
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| Coordinates: 29°53′07″N 89°26′10″E / 29.88528°N 89.43611°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Namling County (Chinese: 南木林县; Pinyin: Nánmùlín Xiàn) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Namling is the current administrative name given to the valleys of Oyuk, Tobgyet, and Shang ... [associated]... with both Buddhism and Bon. Through these valleys respectively flow the 'Nang-gung-chu'mang ra chu Tobpu-chu, and Shang-chu rivers, with their various tributaries, which rise amid the southern slopes of the Nyenchen Tanglha range to the north, and flow southwards to converge with the Brahmaputra [called the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet].
The lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River make "a sharp U-turn around Namjagbarwa Peak in Pai, Namling County." This is regarded as the starting point of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Nyingchi Prefecture, which stretches 496 kilometres (308 mi) and averages over 5,000 metres (3.1 mi) in depth. The county has three geysers.
The Namling County Schools Project was founded by Tashi Tsering in 1991, and has been sponsored by the Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project (BLSCP) since 1994. As of 2013, it supports 53 rural elementary schools.
As of 2006, 15 out of the county's 17 towns had cell phone service.
As of 2001, potatoes have been introduced in Aimagang (Emagang) as a crop for herdsmen in the county. Potatoes and vegetables were shipped to markets in Xigazê, and production of peas and wheat decreased.
The 2009 HIV/AIDS outreach efforts in rural areas of the county appear to have had a positive impact in comparison to a similar non-intervention area of Tingri County, according to Medicus Mundi Switzerland.
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