Bamda
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Bamda | |
Location within Tibet | |
Coordinates: | |
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Country | China |
Region | Tibet |
Prefecture | Nyingchi Prefecture |
County | |
Nearby settlements (distance) | Cengdo 16.1 mi/26 km Chuka |
Elevation | 3,805 m (12,486 ft) |
Population | |
- Total | 789 |
- Major Nationalities | Tibetan |
- Regional dialect | Tibetan language |
Time zone | +8 (UTC) |
Bamda is a village in the Nyingchi Prefecture in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, roughly 1,000 km from Lhasa. It is basically an army garrison with a small Tibetan village around the corner.[1]
It lies at an altitude of 4,400 metres. The village is located 22 km east of Qoiden and about 32 km from the border with Sichuan.
Population about 789.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Buckley,Michael and Strauss, Robert. Tibet: a travel survival kit, p, 217. (1986) Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 0-908066-88-1.
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