Biru County

Biru County
比如县 • འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།
County

Location of Biru County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Biru
Location of the seat in Tibet
Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 93°33′00″E / 31.77750°N 93.55000°E / 31.77750; 93.55000Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 93°33′00″E / 31.77750°N 93.55000°E / 31.77750; 93.55000
Country People's Republic of China
Autonomous region Tibet
Prefecture-level city Nagqu
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)
Biru County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 比如县
Traditional Chinese 比如縣
Tibetan name
Tibetan འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།

Biru County (Tibetan: འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་། ; Chinese: 比如县) is the most populated county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The name means "female yak". Either of the following pronunciations can be considered correct in Standard Tibetan: [bìru] ~ [pìru] (conventionally written Biru in English) or [ɖìru] ~ [ʈìru] (conventionally Driru).

biru/driru
diru county

Diru/Driru/ Biru lies in the southwest part of the former province of Kham. To its east is Chamdo and to its west Nagchu. Diru/Driru/Biru is located on the Gyalmo Ngulchu River(upper part of Gyalmo Ngulchu). Diru is bodered by Sog county སོག་རྫོང་། to the northwest and the extreme east of Palbar(Banbar County)དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་, is also surrounded by Lhari county ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་/ to the south, and extreme north to the Nagchu county.

The Biru Skull Wall

At the 2009 PRC census, the county's population was 60,179, of whom:

Name of group Number Percentage
Tibetans 59,824 99.21%
Han 313 0.69%
Bai 11 0.02%
Uyghurs 9 0.02%
Others 22 0.05%


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.