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Mamba, Tibet

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Country
  
China

County
  
Maizhokunggar County

Area
  
822 km²

Prefecture
  
Lhasa Prefecture

Time zone
  
CST (UTC+8)

Mamba, Tibet

Province
  
Tibet Autonomous Region

Mamba (门巴乡) is a small town and township-level division in Lhasa prefecture-level city in Maizhokunggar County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Administratively it is divided into six village-level divisional units, and the township covers an area of 822 square kilometres (317 sq mi), with a population of about 2,900. Animal husbandry, with the rearing of yak, sheep, goats, and agriculture, with the principal crops being barley, wheat, and canola, is predominant. Geologically, Late Triassic granitoids in the area are mainly "exposed in a fault uplift in the Gangdise tectonic belt". The township is home to Drigung Monastery.

Map of Menbaxiang, Maizhokunggar, Lhasa, Tibet, China

References

Mamba, Tibet Wikipedia