Shannan Prefecture
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Shannan Prefecture (Tibetan: Lhokha Sakhül, ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Lho-kha Sa-khul; simplified Chinese: 山南地区; pinyin: Shānnán Dìqū) is a prefecture in the Southeastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region. As of 2002 it has a population of 320,000 and an area of 79.699 km². Much of Shannan Prefecture encompass the western part of the Indian district of Arunachal Pradesh, a disputed area with China.
The Samye monastery is located in Shannan Prefecture, as well as Tsetang, Tibet's third largest town. The Tawang monastery, located in Tawang District, which is an area claimed by China and adminstratively placed under Shannan's juristiction by Chinese sovereignty claim. Shannan is predominantly inhabited by members of the Monpa ethnic group.
[edit] Administrative Sub-divisions
| Name | Tibetan | Wylie | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nêdong County | སྣེ་གདོང་རྫོང་ | sne gdong rdzong | 乃东县 | Nǎidōng Xiàn |
| Zhanang County | གྲ་ནང་རྫོང་ | gra nang rdzong | 扎囊县 | Zhānáng Xiàn |
| Gonggar County | གོང་དཀར་རྫོང་ | gong dkar rdzong | 贡嘎县 | Gònggā Xiàn |
| Sangri County | ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་ | zangs ri rdzong | 桑日县 | Sāngrì Xiàn |
| Qonggyai County | འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་ | 'phyongs rgyas rdzong | 琼结县 | Qióngjié Xiàn |
| Qusum County | ཆུ་གསུམ་རྫོང་ | chu gsum rdzong | 曲松县 | Qūsōng Xiàn |
| Comai County | མཚོ་སམད་རྫོང་ | mtsho smad rdzong | 措美县 | Cuòměi Xiàn |
| Lhozhag County | ལྷོ་བྲག་རྫོང་ | lho brag rdzong | 洛扎县 | Luòzhā Xiàn |
| Gyaca County | རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་ | rgya tsha rdzong | 加查县 | Jiāchá Xiàn |
| Lhünzê County | ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ | lhun rtse rdzong | 隆子县 | Lóngzǐ Xiàn |
| Cuona County | མཚོ་སྣ་རྫོང་ | mtsho sna rdzong | 错那县 | Cuònà Xiàn |
| Nagarzê County | སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་ | sna dkar rtse rdzong | 浪卡子县 | Làngkǎzǐ Xiàn |
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