Talk:Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

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[edit] Name of the prefecture

The name of the prefecture is Yushu (named after a former tribal confederation and not after the name of its prefectural capital, Jyekundo or Gyêgu).

That Gyêgu is also often called Yushu nowadays, has two reasons:

• it is the seat of the administration of Yushu county
• and it is the seat of the administration of Yushu prefecture, and local people tend to designate the town according to the administrative function.

That means:

• Yushu prefecture is much larger than Yushu county (197.000 km²)
• Yushu county is larger than the town which is the seat of the administrative bodies mentioned.
• The town's old name is Jyekundo, or Jyegu, written Gyêgu in modern administrative spelling, and has grown much beyond the size of the old village with its 300 families that it has been in the mid-20th century.

For all these reasons I will move this article to Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

--Gruschke 11:19, 5 March 2007 (UTC)