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Purang County
Purang County or Burang County (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང; Chinese: 普兰县) is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China. The county seat is Purang Town, known as Taklakot in Nepali. The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of 9,657 as of 2010.
Purang County has TAR's south-western border with Nepal's Sudurpashchim and Karnali province, Darchula, Bajhang and Humla District.[citation needed] Further west, India's Uttarakhand State, Pithoragarh district and Chamoli district borders.[citation needed] Buddhist, Hindu and Jain pilgrims going to Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash enter from Nepal via Simikot, and from India via Dharchula.
The county is bounded by other counties in the Ngari Prefecture, including Zanda to the west, Gar to the northwest and Gê'gyai to the north. To the east is Zhongba County of Shigatse Prefecture.
The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of some 9,058 people as of 2010. The county seat, located in the Jirang Neighborhood Committee, is located only 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Nepalese territory, and 450 kilometres (280 mi) north-west of Kathmandu.[citation needed] It is an important Chinese customs point between Tibet, Nepal and India.[citation needed] Much of the county consists of river valleys of mountains and lakes such as Kangrinboqê (also known as Mount Kailash), The Naimonany Peak Gunrla and Lake Maponen Yamco Lake Manasarowar.[citation needed] The Karnali River fed by Mabja Zangbo is also a prominent geographical feature of the landscape.[citation needed] Wildlife commonly seen in the far south-western Tibetan county are wild donkeys, wild yaks, yellow goats, antelope, rock goat, lynxes, foxes, leopards and marmots.[citation needed]
Purang County has a cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk), with pleasant to warm summers and freezing winters. The annual average temperature in the county is 4.0 °C (39.2 °F), and annual precipitation averages 147 mm (5.8 in). Temperatures are hottest on average in July, when the daily mean is 14.7 °C (58.5 °F), and coldest in January when the average is −7.4 °C (18.7 °F).
The county is divided into 1 town and 2 townships. The county government is seated in the Gyitang Residential Community (སྐྱིད་ཐང་སྡེ་ཁུལ་གྲོང་ལྷན།, 吉让社区居委会), Purang Town.
Some historians believe that Tegla kar (Lying Tiger fort) near Purang was built during the Zhangzhung dynasty which was conquered by the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in the early 7th century CE.[citation needed] It became the main fort of the Purang Kingdom, in the 10th century under King Kori, one of the two sons of Tashi Gon, who was king of the Guge Kingdom.[citation needed] The Guge and Purang kingdoms were separated during the late 11th century, when King Logtsha Tsensong founded an independent realm.[citation needed] In about 1330 the 13th King Sonam De took over the important Khasa Kingdom in western Nepal on the extinction of the local dynasty.[citation needed] The dynasty of Purang kings died out shortly before 1376.[citation needed] The territory was subsequently dominated in turns by the neighbouring kingdoms Guge and Mustang. region. region. During Dogra-Tibetan War, General Zorawar Singh had captured Purang and Zanda County, in order to create a land border with the Kingdom of Nepal.
Ali Sher Khan Anchan the most powerful king, fifteenth in the kings of the Maqpon Dynasty of Baltistan, conquered Ladakh and Western Tibet up to Purang in the east and Gilgit and Chitral in the west during his reign (1590–1625 AD).
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Purang County
Purang County or Burang County (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང; Chinese: 普兰县) is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China. The county seat is Purang Town, known as Taklakot in Nepali. The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of 9,657 as of 2010.
Purang County has TAR's south-western border with Nepal's Sudurpashchim and Karnali province, Darchula, Bajhang and Humla District.[citation needed] Further west, India's Uttarakhand State, Pithoragarh district and Chamoli district borders.[citation needed] Buddhist, Hindu and Jain pilgrims going to Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash enter from Nepal via Simikot, and from India via Dharchula.
The county is bounded by other counties in the Ngari Prefecture, including Zanda to the west, Gar to the northwest and Gê'gyai to the north. To the east is Zhongba County of Shigatse Prefecture.
The county covers an area of 12,539 square kilometres (4,841 sq mi), and has a population of some 9,058 people as of 2010. The county seat, located in the Jirang Neighborhood Committee, is located only 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Nepalese territory, and 450 kilometres (280 mi) north-west of Kathmandu.[citation needed] It is an important Chinese customs point between Tibet, Nepal and India.[citation needed] Much of the county consists of river valleys of mountains and lakes such as Kangrinboqê (also known as Mount Kailash), The Naimonany Peak Gunrla and Lake Maponen Yamco Lake Manasarowar.[citation needed] The Karnali River fed by Mabja Zangbo is also a prominent geographical feature of the landscape.[citation needed] Wildlife commonly seen in the far south-western Tibetan county are wild donkeys, wild yaks, yellow goats, antelope, rock goat, lynxes, foxes, leopards and marmots.[citation needed]
Purang County has a cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk), with pleasant to warm summers and freezing winters. The annual average temperature in the county is 4.0 °C (39.2 °F), and annual precipitation averages 147 mm (5.8 in). Temperatures are hottest on average in July, when the daily mean is 14.7 °C (58.5 °F), and coldest in January when the average is −7.4 °C (18.7 °F).
The county is divided into 1 town and 2 townships. The county government is seated in the Gyitang Residential Community (སྐྱིད་ཐང་སྡེ་ཁུལ་གྲོང་ལྷན།, 吉让社区居委会), Purang Town.
Some historians believe that Tegla kar (Lying Tiger fort) near Purang was built during the Zhangzhung dynasty which was conquered by the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in the early 7th century CE.[citation needed] It became the main fort of the Purang Kingdom, in the 10th century under King Kori, one of the two sons of Tashi Gon, who was king of the Guge Kingdom.[citation needed] The Guge and Purang kingdoms were separated during the late 11th century, when King Logtsha Tsensong founded an independent realm.[citation needed] In about 1330 the 13th King Sonam De took over the important Khasa Kingdom in western Nepal on the extinction of the local dynasty.[citation needed] The dynasty of Purang kings died out shortly before 1376.[citation needed] The territory was subsequently dominated in turns by the neighbouring kingdoms Guge and Mustang. region. region. During Dogra-Tibetan War, General Zorawar Singh had captured Purang and Zanda County, in order to create a land border with the Kingdom of Nepal.
Ali Sher Khan Anchan the most powerful king, fifteenth in the kings of the Maqpon Dynasty of Baltistan, conquered Ladakh and Western Tibet up to Purang in the east and Gilgit and Chitral in the west during his reign (1590–1625 AD).