Bomê County

Pome County or Bomê 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: Bomai”, “Bomê”, “Bome County”, “Bomi”, “Bomi Town”, “Bowo”, “Bowo Xian”, “Bowo:Pome”, “Po-me”, “Po-mi Hsien”, “Pome”, “Pomé”, “Pomé Town”, “Powo”, and “Poyul

Places of Interest

Highlights include Red Building.

Museum
The of the Zamu Central County Committee, located in Bomê County, , , is a two-story wooden structure designed in a Soviet-style architectural imitation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tramog.

Town
or Tramo, also called Zhamog or Zhamo in Chinese, is a town and the county seat of Pome County in the Nyingchi Prefecture, region of . Being the county seat, it is also referred to as the Pome town or Pomi town.

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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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

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

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Chabmog and Sading.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 波密县人民政府 and 波密广场.

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