Purang County
Purang County or Burang County is an administrative division of Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county seat is Purang Town, known as Taklakot in Nepali.
- Type: City with 13,000 residents
- Description: county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Arrondissement Burang”, “Arrondissement Purang”, “Burang (arrondissement)”, “Burang County”, “Burang Dzong”, “Comte de Burang”, “Comté de burang”, “Comté de Burang”, “Comté De Burang”, “P’u-lan Hsien”, “Phổ Lan”, “pu hrang rdzong”, “pu lan”, “pu rang rdzong”, “Pulan”, “Pulan Xian”, “Pulan Xiàn”, “Pǔlán Xiàn”, “Pulang Xian”, “Purang”, “Purang Dzong”, “spu hreng rdzong”, “Taklakot”, “बुरंग ज़िला”, “པུ་ཧྲང་རྫོང་།”, “སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་”, “布让”, “普兰县 སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་།”, and “普蘭県”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Simbiling Monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Purang Town.
Purang County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Ngari, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.2962° or 30° 17′ 46″ north
Longitude
81.1748° or 81° 10′ 29″ east
Population
13,000
Elevation
4,585 metres (15,043 feet)
Open location code
8M2375WF+FW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Purang County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Burang Xian”
- Chinese: “pǔlán xiàn”
- Chinese: “普兰”
- Chinese: “普兰县”
- Dutch: “Burang”
- French: “Burang”
- French: “xian de Burang”
- French: “Xian de Burang”
- Gan Chinese: “普兰县”
- German: “Burang”
- Hindi: “पुरंग ज़िला”
- Italian: “Contea di Burang”
- Japanese: “プラン県”
- Korean: “부랑현”
- Korean: “푸란현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Burang Koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Burang-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burang”
- Norwegian: “Burang”
- Persian: “شهرستان بورانگ”
- Polish: “Burang”
- Portuguese: “Burang”
- Russian: “Буранг (уезд)”
- Russian: “Буранг”
- Spanish: “Burang”
- Spanish: “Purang”
- Swedish: “Burang”
- Tibetan: “Burang Xian”
- Tibetan: “Burang”
- Tibetan: “སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་།”
- Ukrainian: “Буранг”
- Urdu: “بورانگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Burang”
- Western Panjabi: “پرنگ ضلع”
- Wu Chinese: “普兰县”
- Yue Chinese: “普蘭”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Chidê and Qumatang.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Gokung Monastery and Burang Townhall.
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