Pasho County | |
Official Name: | Baxoi County |
Other Name: | Baxoi, Pashö, Pashoi, Pashoe, Pashu |
Settlement Type: | County |
Pushpin Map: | Tibet#China |
Pushpin Label: | Baxoi |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R. |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | China |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous region |
Subdivision Name1: | Tibet |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Chamdo |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Baima (Pasho) |
Area Total Km2: | 12,328.31 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 43538 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | China Standard |
Utc Offset: | +8 |
Coordinates: | 30.0569°N 96.9186°W |
Tib: | དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་། |
Wylie: | dpa' shod rdzong |
Thdl: | pa shö dzong |
Zwpy: | Baxoi Zong |
Order: | st |
S: | 八宿县 |
T: | 八宿縣 |
P: | Bāsù Xiàn |
J: | baat3suk1 jyun2 |
Pasho County orBaxoi County (;) is a county under the administration of Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is at Pema, which is also called the "Pasho Town". The county population is 35,273 (1999). It contains the Pomda Monastery and Rakwa Tso lake.
Pasho County is divided in 4 towns and 10 townships.
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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Town | ||||||
Baima (Pema, Pasho) | Chinese: 白玛镇 | |||||
Bangda Town | Chinese: 帮达镇 | |||||
Ra'og Town | Chinese: 然乌镇 | |||||
Tanggar Town | Chinese: 同卡镇 | |||||
Townships | ||||||
Korqên Township | Chinese: 郭庆乡 | |||||
Lagê Township | Chinese: 拉根乡 | |||||
Yiqên Township | Chinese: 益庆乡 | |||||
Jirong Township | Chinese: 集中乡 | |||||
Karwa pêkyim Township | Chinese: 卡瓦白庆乡 | |||||
Gyêda Township | Chinese: 吉达乡 | |||||
Gyari Township | Chinese: 夏里乡 | |||||
Yangpa Township | Chinese: 拥乡 | |||||
Wa Township | Chinese: 瓦乡 | |||||
Lingka Township | Chinese: 林卡乡 | |||||
The Pasho County contains the Brahmaputra–Salween water divide. The Ngajuk La pass (29.6687°N 96.7181°W) is on the divide. To the north, Ling Chu flows north and east draning into Salween. To the south, Parlung Tsangpo flows south and west to drain into the Tsangpo River (the Tibetan section of Brahmaputra).[2]