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Ngari Prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region
Ngari Prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region

Ngari Prefecture (Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: mnga' ris sa khul; simplified Chinese: 阿里地区; pinyin: Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Its capital is Gar County. Its regional headquarters is in the town of Purang. One of the biggest cities is Ali. It includes part of the Aksai Chin area, a part of Kashmir, which is disputed with India. China exercises administrative control. The Xin-Zang Road (新藏公路)) passes through this area. There's a famous pre-historic culture site near the town of Ritu (日土)). There existed once the Ancient Tibetan Guge Kingdom. Ngari along with Ü and Tsang compose Ü-Tsang, one of the traditional provinces of Tibet, the others being Amdo and Kham.

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into seven county-level divisions: seven counties.

  • Gar County (སྒར་རྫོང་ sgar rdzong; 噶尔县 Gá'ěr Xiàn)
  • Burang County (སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་ spu hreng rdzong; 普兰县 Pǔlán Xiàn)
  • Zanda County (རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་ rtsa mda' rdzong; 札达县 Zhádá Xiàn)
  • Rutog County (རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་ ru thog rdzong; 日土县 Rìtǔ Xiàn)
  • Gê'gyai County (དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་ dge rgyas rdzong; 革吉县 Géjí Xiàn)
  • Gêrzê County (སྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་ sger rtse rdzong; 改则县 Gǎizé Xiàn)
  • Coqên County (མཚོ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ mtsho chen rdzong; 措勤县 Cuòqín Xiàn)

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