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Zanda County 札达县 • རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།Tsamda
County
Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang.
Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region
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Coordinates (Zanda County government): 31°29′03″N 79°41′11″E / 31.48417°N 79.68639°E / 31.48417; 79.68639
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari
County seat	Tholing
Area
• Total	24,601.59 km (9,498.73 sq mi)
Population
• Total	8,454
• Density	0.34/km (0.89/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	zd.al.gov.cn

Zanda County or Tsamda County (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང, Chinese: 札达县) is a county in the Ngari Prefecture to the extreme west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the Guge kingdom.

Zanda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”, an allusion to the grassy river bed of the Sutlej river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in Zanda County's Sutlej basin.

Zanda County is bounded by India's Himachal Pradesh state to the west, Uttarakhand State to the south, Ladakh to the northwest, Gar County to the northeast and Burang County to the southeast.

Administrative divisions

Zanda county is divided into 1 town and 4 townships:

See also

• Tsaparang
• Chepzi

References

1. "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of Ngari Prefecture. 2021-06-10.
2. Zanda County, Tibetan Trekking, retrieved 20 July 2021.
3. Ancient horse skeleton offers glimpse into Tibetan past, horsetalk.co.nz, 25 April 2012.

Further reading

• Swenson, Karen (19 March 2000). "Echoes of a Fallen Kingdom". New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2013.

External links

• Sutlej river flowing through the Zanda County, OpenStreetMap, retrieved 20 July 2021.

v t e Ngari Prefecture, Tibet
County-level divisions	Burang Coqên Gar Rutog Gê'gyai Gêrzê Zanda
Towns and villages	Alhar Ali Asog Burang Camco Coqên Dêmqog Dêrub Gongqên Gormain Gyungcang Jaggang Langmar Minsar Rayü Risong Rutog Shiquanhe Tholing Tsaparang Wüjang Zoco
Geography	Bangda Lake Bangong Co Dawa Lake Guozha Lake Longmu Lake Lumajangdong Lake Orba Co Tong Tso Zhari Nanmu Lake
Landmarks	Tholing Monastery
Sciences	Ngari Networking Project Shiquan River Sand Control Project

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