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Biru County

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Country
  
China

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Province
  
Tibet

Prefecture
  
Nagchu Prefecture

Area
  
11,680 km²

Biru County

Biru County (Tibetan འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་, Wylie 'bri ru rdzong) is a small county within the Nagchu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The name means "female yak". Either of two pronunciations can be considered correct in Standard Tibetan: [bìru] ~ [pìru] (conventionally written Biru in English) or [ɖìru] ~ [ʈìru] (conventionally Driru).

Map of Biru, Nagqu, Tibet, China

At the 2000 PRC census, the county's population was 45,222, of whom:

References

Biru County Wikipedia