Yatung
Yatung or Yadong, also known as Shasima (Tibetan: ཤར་གསིང་མ་, Wylie: shar gsing ma, THL: sharsingma, simplified Chinese: 下司马镇; traditional Chinese: 下司馬鎮; pinyin: Xiàsīmǎ Zhèn), is the principal town in the Chumbi Valley or Yadong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is also its administrative headquarters.
Yatung
ཤར་གསིང་མ་ · 下司马镇 Shasima, Xarsingma | |
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| Xiasima | |
Upper Yatung, 1937 | |
Yatung | |
| Coordinates: 27°28′55″N 88°54′26″E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County | Yadong |
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| • Major Nationalities | Tibetan |
| • Regional dialect | Tibetan language |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
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