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.
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  • Type: City with 21,100 residents
  • Description: county in Nyingchi, Tibet, China B
  • Also known as: “Arrondissement Bomi”, “Ba Mật”, “Bomai”, “Bomê”, “Bome County”, “Bome Dzong”, “Bomi”, “Bomi Dzong”, “Bomi Town”, “Bomi Xiàn”, “Bowo”, “Bowo Xian”, “Bowo:Pome”, “Po-me”, “Po-mi Hsien”, “Pomé”, “Pome Dzong”, “Pomé Town”, “Powo”, “Powo Dzong”, “Poyul”, “Poyül”, “Джамо”, “སྤོ་བོ”, “སྤོ་མེས”, “སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་”, “སྤོ་སྨད”, “波密县 སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་།”, “波密県”, and “波密縣”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Red Building.

Museum
The of the Zamu Central County Committee…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tramog.

Town
Photo: Chen Zhao, CC BY 2.0.
or Tramo, also called Zhamog or Zhamo…

Bomê County

Latitude
29.862° or 29° 51′ 43″ north
Longitude
95.7671° or 95° 46′ 1″ east
Population
21,100
Elevation
3,652 metres (11,982 feet)
Open location code
7MXQVQ68+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4547672829
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1281613
Wiki­data ID
Q892024
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Bomê County” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Bomi Xian”
  • Chinese: “Bōmì Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “波密”
  • Chinese: “波密县”
  • Dutch: “Pome”
  • French: “Bomi”
  • French: “xian de Bomi”
  • French: “Xian de Bomi”
  • Gan Chinese: “波密县”
  • German: “Bomê”
  • Italian: “Bomê”
  • Italian: “Contea di Bomê”
  • Japanese: “ポメ県”
  • Korean: “보미현”
  • Korean: “뽀메현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bomê Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bomê-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bomi”
  • Norwegian: “Bomi”
  • Persian: “شهرستان بومه”
  • Persian: “شهرستان پومه”
  • Polish: “Bomi”
  • Russian: “Бово”
  • Slovenian: “Bome”
  • Spanish: “Bome”
  • Swedish: “Pome”
  • Tibetan: “Bomê Xian”
  • Tibetan: “Bomê”
  • Tibetan: “སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་།”
  • Ukrainian: “Бом”
  • Ukrainian: “Боме”
  • Urdu: “بومئی کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Bomê”
  • Wu Chinese: “波密县”
  • Yue Chinese: “波密”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: 扎木社区 and Chabmog.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: 波密县人民政府 and 波茂广场.

Tibet: Must-Visit Destinations

Worth a closer look: Lhasa and Nagqu.

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