Bamda Township
帮达乡 | |
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Bamda Location within the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates: 29°26′42″N 98°42′14″E / 29.4449°N 98.7040°E / 29.4449; 98.7040 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Prefecture-level city | Nyingchi |
| County | Markam |
| Elevation | 3,805 m (12,484 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 789 |
| • Major Nationalities | Tibetan |
| • Regional dialect | Tibetan language |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
Bamda (Tibetan: སྤངམདའ།, Wylie: spang mdav;1 simplified Chinese: 帮达乡; traditional Chinese: 幫達鄉; pinyin: Bāngdá Xiāng) is a small township in Markam County in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) from Lhasa. It is basically an army garrison with a small Tibetan village around the corner.2
Footnotes
Footnotes
- 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Simplified Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 24. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.
- Buckley, Michael and Strauss, Robert. Tibet: a travel survival kit, p, 217. (1986) Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 0-908086-88-1.