Chumbi
ཆུ་འབི • 春丕村 | |
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  Chumbi  Chumbi  Chumbi .svg) Chumbi | |
| Coordinates: 27°26′40″N 88°55′19″E / 27.4445°N 88.922°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shigatse |
| County | Yadong |
| Town | Xarsingma |
Chumbi (Tibetan: ཆུ་འབི, Wylie: chu 'bi, THL: chu bi; Chinese: 春丕; pinyin: Chūn pī) is a historic village in the Chumbi Valley or the Yadong County of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is in the valley of the Amo Chu River, where the route from Sikkim's Cho La Pass meets the Amo Chu Valley.[1] The "Chumbi Valley" of the European nomenclature derives its name from the village of Chumbi.[2][a] It was the administrative center of the lower Chumbi Valley until the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1950, after which Yatung became its headquarters. Chumbi is also associated with the Sikkim's royal family, which had a summer palace in the village.[3][4]
- ^ Markham, Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle (1876), p. civ: "Next, to the north, is the Cho-la pass, 15,000 feet high, which is the direct route from Tumlung to Chumbi."
- ^ Waddell (1905), p. 80: "we marched up the valley, to the village of Chumbi, which has given the valley the name by which it is known to Europeans..."
- ^ Mullard, Opening the Hidden Land (2011), p. 40, note 25.
- ^ White, Sikhim & Bhutan (1909), p. 111 "It was instructive, in view of the then disputed question as to whether Chumbi, as the people themselves maintained it ought to be, should be restored to Sikhim, to note the close intimacy that exists between Chumbi and Sikhim."
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