Xainza County
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Xainza County 申扎县 • ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་། |
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.png) Location of Xainza County within Tibet |
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 Xainza County
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| Coordinates: 31°01′15″N 88°48′02″E / 31.02083°N 88.80056°E | |
| Country | China |
| Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Nagchu Prefecture |
| County seat | Xainza |
| Area | |
| • Total | 25,546 km2 (9,863 sq mi) |
| Population (1999) | |
| • Total | 16,190 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Xainza County, also Shantsa, Shentsa, (Tibetan: ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་, Wylie: shan rtsa rdzong; Chinese: 申扎县; pinyin: Shēnzhā Xiàn) is a county within the Nagchu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. In 1999 the county had a population of 16,190.
The capital lies at Naktsang Town or Xainza. The county covers an area of 25,546 square kilometres (9,863 sq mi). Until recent times the County extended all the way from the borders of Xinjiang in the north to the Brahmaputra River in the south, covering a larger area than the United Kingdom. It has since been split into two, Shentsa (Xainza) County and the new Nyima County to the east.
"In this region there are 67 lakes, including some of Tibet's largest: Serling, Dangra Yutso, Ngangtse-tso, Kering-tso, Taktse-tse and Uru-tso. In the northeast there are a number of 6,000 m peaks including Purok Gangri 6,482 metres (21,266 ft) and Norla Gangri 6,136 metres (20,131 ft), not to mention the Kunlun mountains on the Xinjiang border further north. The entire northern region forms part of the Jangtang Nature Reserve. Ten large salt fields testify to the importance of this region for the traditional trading commodity of the Jangtang Plateau."
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