Rutog County

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Rutog County
—  County  —
Tibetan: transliteration(s)
 - Tibetan རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་
 - Wylie transliteration ru thog rdzong
Chinese transliteration(s)
 - Chinese 日土县
 - Pinyin Rìtǔ Xiàn
Location highlighted in the Ngari Prefecture
Location highlighted in the Ngari Prefecture
Country China
Region Tibet
Prefecture Ngari Prefecture
County capital Rutog
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)

Rutog County (Tibetan: རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་ wylie: ru thog rdzong; Chinese: 日土县; Pinyin:Rìtǔ Xiàn) is a large western territory of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its capital, Rutog is located some 900 kilometres (560 mi) northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.

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