Zanda County

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 County
札达县རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།
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Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang.
Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region
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Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
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Zanda (Tibet)
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Zanda (China)
Coordinates (Zanda County government): 31°29′03″N 79°41′11″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
County seatTholing
Area
  Total24,601.59 km2 (9,498.73 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total8,454
  Density0.34/km2 (0.89/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitezd.al.gov.cn
Zanda County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese札达县
Traditional Chinese札達縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།

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.

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