Purang Town
Purang or Burang, known as Puhreng in Tibetan (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ, Wylie: spu hreng grong rdal, THL: pu hreng drong del, IPA: puʂeŋ), (Nepali:ताक्लाकोट) is a town which serves as the administrative center of Purang County, Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. The town lies at an altitude of 3,900m (12,795 feet) in the valley of the Karnali River. The town spans an area of 3,257.81 square kilometres (1,257.85 sq mi), and has a permanent population 6,047 as of 2010, and a hukou population of 4,477 as of 2018. To the south are Gurla Mandhata (Mount Namonanyi) and the Abi Gamin ranges. Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash are to the north. This region is the mythological and actual river nexus of the Himalaya with sources of the Indus, Ganges and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra all within 110 kilometres (70 mi) of Purang.
Purang
Puhreng, Burang | |
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Purang County Health Service Center located in Purang Town | |
Purang Location within Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates (Purang Town government): 30°17′10″N 81°10′37″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County | Purang |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,257.81 km2 (1,257.85 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,900 m (13,205 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 6,047 |
| • Density | 1.9/km2 (4.8/sq mi) |
| • Major Nationalities | Tibetan |
| • Regional dialect | Tibetan language |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 普兰镇 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 普蘭鎮 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ | ||||||||||
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