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Mainling County

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Country
  
China

Area
  
8,413 km²

Province
  
Tibet

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Local time
  
Saturday 9:51 PM

Prefecture
  
Nyingchi

Mainling County

Weather
  
-6°C, Wind E at 10 km/h, 72% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Namcha Barwa, Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, Gongba, Zhagonggou Scenic Area

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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Map of Mainling, Nyingchi, Tibet, China

Geography

Mainling County is located in the central-west of the Nyingtri Prefecture, at the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and between the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains. It covers an area of 9,471 square kilometres. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.

Economy

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.

Nyingchi Mainling Airport is the third airport in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Demography

In 1999 the county had a population of 17347 inhabitants.

The county is home to the Lhoba people.

References

Mainling County Wikipedia


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