Bomê County

Bomê County or Pome County is a county of Nyingchi Prefecture in the south-east of the . Historically known as Powo or Poyul, it was the seat of a quasi-independent kingdom until the early 20th century when troops of the Dalai Lama's Lhasa government integrated it into the central Tibetan realm.
  • City with about 34,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 4,200 metres (13,780 feet)
  • Description: county in Nyingchi, Tibet, China B
  • Also known as
    “Bomai”
    “Bomê”
    “Bomi”
    “Bomi Town”
    “Bowo”
    “Bowo Xian”
    “Bowo:Pome”
    “Po-me”
    “Po-mi Hsien”
    “Pomé Town”
    “Powo”
    “Poyul”
    “波密县 སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་།”

Places of Interest

Discover Red Building.
Museum
The of the Zamu Central County Committee…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tramog.
or Tramo, also called Zhamog or Zhamo…
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Latitude
29.862° or 29° 51′ 43″ north
Longitude
95.7671° or 95° 46′ 1″ east
Open location code
7MXQVQ68+QR
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Bomê County” goes by many names.
Bomi XianCebuano
Bōmì XiànChinese
波密Chinese
波密县Chinese
波密縣Chinese
Arrondissement BomiDutch
BomeDutch
Bome DzongDutch
Bomi DzongDutch
Bōmì XiànDutch
PomeDutch
Pome DzongDutch
PowoDutch
Powo DzongDutch
Contea di BomêItalian
ポメ県Japanese
波密県Japanese
보미현Korean
뽀메현Korean
Bomê-koānMin Nan Chinese
BomiNorwegian
BomêNorwegian Bokmål
BomiNorwegian Bokmål
PowoNorwegian Bokmål
PoyülNorwegian Bokmål
شهرستان بومهPersian
شهرستان پومهPersian
BomiPolish
БовоRussian
ДжамоRussian
BomeSlovenian
PomeSwedish
BomêTibetan
Bomê XianTibetan
སྤོ་བོTibetan
སྤོ་མེསTibetan
སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་།Tibetan
སྤོ་སྨདTibetan
БомUkrainian
БомеUkrainian
بومئی کاؤنٹیUrdu
Ba MậtVietnamese
BomêVietnamese
BomiVietnamese
波密县Wu Chinese
波密Yue Chinese

Localities in the Area

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Tibet: Highlights

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