Rutog County
Rutog County is a county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is the new Rutog Town, located some 1,140 km or 700 miles west-northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 11,200 residents
- Description: county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Jih-t’u Hsien”, “Ritu”, “ritu xian”, “Ritu Xian”, “Ritu Zhen”, “Rudok County”, “Ruthog County”, “Rutog”, and “Rutog Chongdai”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rutog Town and Dêrub.
Rutog Town
Town
Photo: Global Photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rutog Town, called Rituzhen in Chinese, is a town and the seat of Rutog County in the far western Tibet Autonomous Region. It is also a major military base for China near the disputed border with India allowing it to press its claims militarily.
Dêrub
Village
The Rutog Town, called Rituzhen in Chinese, is a town and the seat of Rutog County in the far western Tibet Autonomous Region. It is also a major military base for China near the disputed border with India allowing it to press its claims militarily.
Rutog County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Ngari, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.3839° or 33° 23′ 2″ northLongitude
79.7291° or 79° 43′ 45″ eastPopulation
11,200Elevation
5,191 metres (17,031 feet)Open location code
8J5X9PMH+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4694700138OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1280115Wikidata ID
Q1028124
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Rutog County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rutog Xian”
- Chinese: “rìtǔ xiàn”
- Chinese: “Rutog Koān”
- Chinese: “日土”
- Chinese: “日土县”
- Chinese: “日土縣”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Rutog”
- Dutch: “Ritu Xian”
- Dutch: “Rìtu Xian”
- Dutch: “Rìtǔ Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Ruthog (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Ruthog Dzong”
- Dutch: “Ruthog”
- Dutch: “Rutog Dzong”
- Dutch: “Rutog Xian”
- Dutch: “Rutog Xiàn”
- French: “comté de Rudok”
- French: “comté de Rutog”
- French: “Ritu xian”
- French: “Ritu”
- French: “Rudok”
- French: “Ruthog”
- French: “Rutog”
- French: “xian de Rutog”
- French: “Xian de Rutog”
- Gan Chinese: “日土县”
- German: “Ritu”
- German: “Ruthog Dzong”
- German: “Ruthog”
- German: “Rutog”
- Hindi: “रुतोग ज़िला”
- Italian: “Contea di Rutog”
- Japanese: “ルトク県”
- Japanese: “日土県”
- Kazakh: “Рутог”
- Korean: “루톡현”
- Korean: “르투현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rutog-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rutog”
- Norwegian: “Rutog”
- Persian: “شهرستان روتوگ”
- Polish: “Rutog”
- Russian: “Рутог”
- Spanish: “Rutog”
- Swedish: “Ruthog”
- Tibetan: “Rutog Xian”
- Tibetan: “Rutog”
- Tibetan: “རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་”
- Ukrainian: “Рутог”
- Urdu: “روتھوگ کاؤنٹی”
- Urdu: “روتوگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Nhật Thổ”
- Vietnamese: “Rutog”
- Wu Chinese: “日土县”
- Yue Chinese: “日土”
Localities in the Area
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