Biru County

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
Biru County

比如县 • འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Biru County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Biru
Location of the seat in Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 93°33′00″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Biru County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese比如县
Traditional Chinese比如縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanའབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།

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 bordered 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%


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