Tongren County
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Tongren 同仁县 · ཐུང་རིན་རྫོང་། |
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| County | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Huangnan |
| County seat | Rongwu Town |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,275 km2 (1,264 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,480 m (8,140 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 92,601 |
| • Density | 28/km2 (73/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 811399 |
| Area code(s) | 0973 |
Tongren County (Tibetan: ཐུན་རིན་རྫོང་, Wylie: thung ren rdzong; Chinese: 同仁县; pinyin: Tóngrén Xiàn), known to Tibetans as Rebgong (Tibetan: རེབ་གོང་, རེབ་ཀོང་, or རེབ་སྐོང་) in the historic region of Amdo is the capital and second smallest administrative subdivision by area within Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, China. The county has an area of 3465 square kilometers and a population of ~80,000 (2002), 75% Tibetan. The economy of the county includes agriculture and aluminium mining.
The county has a number of Tibetan Buddhist temples and gompas, including the large and significant Rongwo Monastery of the Gelug school. It is known as a center of thangka painting. Rebgong arts where named to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2009.
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