| Mainling County Mainling Zong |
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| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| • Tibetan | སྨན་གླིང་རྫོང་། |
| • Wylie transliteration | sman-gling rdzong |
| • pronunciation in IPA | |
| • official transcription (PRC) | Mainling Zong |
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| Chinese transcription(s) | |
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| • Simplified | 米林县 |
| • Pinyin | Mǐlín Xiàn |
| Location of Mainling County within Tibet | |
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Mainling County
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| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Nyingchi Prefecture |
| Capital | [[]] |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Mainling County (Tibetan: ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་, Wylie: sman gling rdzong; Chinese: 米林县; pinyin: Mǐlín Xiàn) is a county of the Nyingtri Prefecture in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Mainling County is located in the central-west of the Nyingtri Prefecture, at the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and between the Nyainqentanglha Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains. It covers an area of 9,471 square kilometres. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.
The mine resources of the county are gold dust, plaster, limestone, chromium and iron, etc.
The main economy style in Mainling County is farming and forest industry. The main species of the trees are fir, spruce, pine, oak, and cypress, etc. The total cumulation volume of woods is 40 million cubic metres. The special fruit productions are apples, apple pears, walnuts and peaches.
In 1999 the county had a population of 17347 inhabitants [1].
The county is home to the Lhoba people.
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