Zayu County

Zayul County (Tibetan: རྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང) or Zayü (Chinese: 察隅县) is a county in the Nyingchi Prefecture in the southeastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Zayul County
察隅县རྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།
Dzayul, Chayul, Tsayul, Zayü, Chayu, Tsayu
Zayü County
Location of Zayul County (red) within the Nyingchi Prefecture (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Zayü County in Nyingchi (in Sunglow color; disputed area contained)
Zayul
Location in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Zayul
Zayul (China)
Coordinates: 28°39′40″N 97°28′01″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNyingchi
SeatZhowagoin Town
Area
(de facto controlled)
  Total19,000 km2 (7,000 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total28,237
  Density1.5/km2 (3.8/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
860600
Websitewww.chayu.gov.cn
Zayu County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese察隅县
Traditional Chinese察隅縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།

The historical Zayul region is marked by the basin of the Zayul River, with its two branches: Rongto Chu (or the western Zayul River) and Zayul Chu (or the eastern Zayul River). The two branches join near the town of Rima. After the junction, the Zayul river enters India's Arunachal Pradesh where it is called Lohit.

The Zayul county borders India and Burma to the south and China's Yunnan province to the southeast. To the northeast lies the Pome County and to the northwest the Medog County. The county's headquarter located at Kyigang Village, Zhowagoin Town.

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