Mamba | |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Translit Lang1: | Tibetan |
Translit Lang1 Type: | Tibetan |
Translit Lang1 Type1: | Wylie transliteration |
Translit Lang2: | Chinese |
Translit Lang2 Type: | Traditional |
Translit Lang2 Info: | 门巴乡 |
Translit Lang2 Type1: | Simplified |
Translit Lang2 Type2: | Pinyin |
Pushpin Map: | China Tibet |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Tibet Autonomous Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture |
Subdivision Name2: | Lhasa Prefecture |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | Maizhokunggar County |
Area Total Km2: | 822 |
Population Total: | 2900 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | +8 |
Coordinates: | 30.1033°N 92.215°W |
Mamba 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, 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".[1] The township is home to Drigung Monastery.