Bamda

Bamda
Bamda
Location within Tibet
Coordinates:
Country China
Region Tibet
Prefecture Nyingchi Prefecture
County
Nearby settlements (distance) Cengdo 
16.1 mi/26 km

Chuka 
15.8 mi/25 km

Chubarong 
27 mi/43 km

Chubalung 
26.5 mi/43 km

Gartog 
15.2 mi/24 km

Gunwa 
22 mi/35 km

Qoiden 
22.1 mi/36 km

Qizhong 
17.5 mi/28 km

Elevation 3,805 m (12,486 ft)
Population
 • Total 789
 • Major Nationalities Tibetan
 • Regional dialect Tibetan language
Time zone +8

Bamda is a small town in the Nyingchi Prefecture in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, roughly 1,000 km from Lhasa. It is basically an army garrison with a small Tibetan village around the corner.[1]

It lies at an altitude of 4,400 metres. The village is located 22 km east of Qoiden and about 32 km from the border with Sichuan.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Buckley, Michael and Strauss, Robert. Tibet: a travel survival kit, p, 217. (1986) Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 0-908066-88-1.

See also

External links and references