Rutog County
日土县 • རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་། Rudok, Ritu | |
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Coordinates (Rutog County government): 33°54′48″N 80°45′01″E / 33.91333°N 80.75028°E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture | Ngari |
County seat | Rutog |
Area | |
• Total | 81,046 km2 (31,292 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 11,167 |
• Density | 0.14/km2 (0.36/sq mi) |
Ethnic groups | |
• Major ethnic groups | Tibetan[3] |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 859700 |
Website | rt |
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 日土县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 日土縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan | རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Rutog County[4][5][6][7][8][9] (Tibetan: རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 日土县) is a county in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county seat is the new Rutog Town, located some 1,140 km (710 mi) or 700 miles west-northwest of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Rutog County shares a border with India.[10]
The county has a rich history of folk tales, myths, legends, proverbs and folk songs and has many caves, rock paintings and other relics. The Xinjiang-Tibet Highway runs through the Rutog County for 340 km (210 mi). The modern county established in March 1961 covers 74,500 km2 (28,800 sq mi). It has a very low population density with a population of just over 10,000.
日土县隶属阿里地区,全县总面积81046平方公里,辖1镇4乡。2015年总人口10635人。
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Rutog County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.