Damxung County

Damxung County
—  County  —
Tibetan transcription(s)
- Tibetan	འདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང།
- Wylie transliteration	’dam gzhung rdzong
- []	tamɕuŋ tsoŋ
- official transcription (PRC)	Damxung
- THDL	Damzhung
- other transcriptions	Damshung, Dhamshung
Chinese transcription(s)
- Traditional	當雄縣
- Simplified	当雄县
- Pinyin	Dāngxióng Xiàn
Nam Tso
Location of Damxung County within Tibet
Damxung County Location in Tibet
Coordinates: 30°31′04″N 90°45′46″E / 30.51778°N 90.76278°E / 30.51778; 90.76278
Country	China
Province	Tibet
Prefecture	Lhasa Prefecture
Capital	Damquka or Damxung Town?
Area
- Total	10,036 km2 (3,874.9 sq mi)
Population (1999)
- Total	38,473
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)

Damxung is a county far north of the main centre of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its administrative seat is Damquka.

Damxung means "selected pasture" in Tibetan language.

Geography

Damxung County is located in the middle of the Tibet Autonomous Region and by the side of the Lhamo Namco Holy Lake. It covers an area of 10,036 square kilometres with a population of 38,473 (1999).

Damxung County is at the area of Gangdisê and Nyainqêntanglha Mountains. The Nyainqêntanglha range crosses through the whole county.

The biggest lake in Tibet - Lhamo Nam Co is in Damxung County. The lake covers an area of 1920 square kilometres. It's a famous tourism attraction of Tibet.

Administrative divisions

Name	Tibetan	Wylie	Chinese	Pinyin
Damquka	འདམ་ཆུ་ཁ།	’dam chu kha	当曲卡镇	Dāngqǔkǎ Zhèn
Yangbajain	ཡངས་པ་ཅན།།	yangs pa can	羊八井镇	Yángbājǐng Zhèn
Gyaidar	རྒྱས་དར།།	rgyas dar	格达乡	Gédá Xiāng
Nyingzhung	སྙིང་དྲུང།	snying drung	宁中乡	Níngzhōng Xiāng
Gongtang	ཀོང་ཐང།	kong thang	公塘乡	Gōngtáng Xiāng
Lungring	ལུང་རིང།	lung ring	龙仁乡	Lóngrén Xiāng
Wumatang	དབུ་མ་ཐང།	dbu ma thang	乌玛塘乡	Wūmǎtáng Xiāng
Namco	གནམ་མཚོ།	gnam mtsho	纳木错乡	Nàmùcuò Xiāng

Economy

Yangpachen valley

The main mine resources are sulfur, kaolin, pozzolana, plaster and turf, etc.

Animal husbandry is booming in the area. The herdsmen raise yaks, sheep, goats and horses.

Qinghai-Tibet Highway (part of G219) goes through the whole county and Damxung railway station links the city from the north to Lhasa.

The mileage opened to traffic has reached 1625 kilometres.

See also

• Damxung Town
• Dangxiong railway station

Coordinates: 30°31′04″N 90°45′46″E / 30.51778°N 90.76278°E / 30.51778; 90.76278