| Zhongba County Zhongba Zong Place of Gaur |
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| • Tibetan | འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང༌། |
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| • official transcription (PRC) | Zhongba Zong |
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| Location of Zhongba County within Tibet | |
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| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Shigatse Prefecture |
| Capital | Tingche |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Zhongba County (Tibetan: འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང༌།, ZYPY: Zhongba Zong; Chinese: 仲巴县; Pinyin: Zhōngbā Xiàn) is a county of the Shigatse Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Located in western Tibet, it is the largest county of the prefecture.
Zhongba County has a population of 18,000 and covers 43,594 square kilometers. It is prone to quakes and suffered another large one, 6.8 on the Richter scale on 30 August, 2008. Although it left a 10 km crack in a north-south direction at the epicenter located at 31° north and 83.6° east, houses were damaged and roads blocked by falling rocks, no one has been reported as injured. [1] It is heavily populated with lakes. Renqingxiubu Co lake is known as Rinchen Subtso in Tibetan.
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