Rutog County, the Glossary
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74 relations: Aksai Chin, Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, Army Map Service, Autonomous regions of China, Avalanche, Bangda Lake, Bear, Black sheep, Black-necked crane, Borax, British Raj, China, China Central Television, China Internet Network Information Center, China National Highway 219, Chromite, Counties of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Foreign Languages Press, Gertse County, Gold, Goose, Guozha Lake, Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, India, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Internet Archive, Karakoram, Kiang, Lead, Lhasa, Lhasa Tibetan, List of ethnic groups in China, List of populated places in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Longmu Lake, Lumajangdong Co, Maryul, Mongolian gazelle, NASA, NASA Earth Observatory, National Bureau of Statistics of China, National Development and Reform Commission, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Ngari Prefecture, Orba Co, Pangong Tso, Pinyin, Postal codes in China, Prefectures of China, ... Expand index (24 more) »
- Ngari Prefecture
Aksai Chin
Aksai Chin is a region administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) partly in Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang and partly in Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and the PRC as well as the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan since 1959.
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Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China
Tibet came under the control of People's Republic of China (PRC) after the Government of Tibet signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which the 14th Dalai Lama ratified on 24 October 1951, but later repudiated on the grounds that he had rendered his approval for the agreement under duress.
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Army Map Service
The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
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Autonomous regions of China
The autonomous regions are one of four types of province-level divisions of China.
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Avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.
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Bangda Lake
Bangda Lake, formerly called Yeshil Kul, is a glacial lake in Ngari Prefecture in the northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Rutog County and Bangda Lake are Ngari Prefecture.
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Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
Black sheep
In the English language, black sheep is an idiom that describes a member of a group who is different from the rest, especially a family member who does not fit in.
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Black-necked crane
The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan.
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Borax
Borax (also referred to as sodium borate, tincal and tincar) is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated or anhydrous borate of sodium, with the chemical formula (also written as). It is a colorless crystalline solid that dissolves in water to make a basic solution.
British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
China Central Television
China Central Television (CCTV) is the national television broadcaster of China, established in 1958.
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China Internet Network Information Center
The China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC, is the administrative agency responsible for domain registry affairs of.cn under the Cyberspace Administration of China.
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China National Highway 219
China National Highway 219 (G219; Chinese: Guódào219) is a highway which runs along the entire western and southern border of the People's Republic of China, from Kom-Kanas Mongolian ethnic township in Xinjiang to Dongxing in Guangxi.
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Chromite
Chromite is a crystalline mineral composed primarily of iron(II) oxide and chromium(III) oxide compounds.
Counties of China
Counties (hp) are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in provinces and autonomous regions and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banners and city districts.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source intelligence component of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology.
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Foreign Languages Press
Foreign Languages Press is a publishing house located in China.
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Gertse County
Gertse County, Gêrzê County, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or Gaize County is a county located in Ngari Prefecture in the northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Xinjiang to the north. Rutog County and Gertse County are counties of Tibet and Ngari Prefecture.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
Goose
A goose (geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae.
Guozha Lake
Kotra Tso, or Guozha Lake, previously called Lake Lighten, is a glacial lake in Rutog County in the Ngari Prefecture in the northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Rutog County and Guozha Lake are Ngari Prefecture.
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Hotan County
Hotan County (also known as Gosthana, Gaustana, Godana, Godaniya, Khotan, Hetian, Hotien) is a county in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.
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Hotan Prefecture
Hotan PrefectureThe official spelling is "Hotan" according to (see also § Etymology) is located in the Tarim Basin region of southwestern Xinjiang, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south and Union Territory of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan to the west.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is an international non-governmental organization that enhances international cooperation between the worldwide organizations with interests in the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
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Karakoram
The Karakoram is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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Kiang
The kiang (Equus kiang) is the largest of the Asinus subgenus.
Lead
Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
Lhasa
Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China.
Lhasa Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
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List of ethnic groups in China
The Han people are the largest ethnic group in mainland China.
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List of populated places in the Tibet Autonomous Region
This is an alphabetical list of all populated places, including cities, towns and villages, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of western China.
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Longmu Lake
Lungmu, also Longmu, Longmu Co or Longmucuo, is a glacial lake in Rutog County in the Ngari Prefecture in the northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Rutog County and Longmu Lake are Ngari Prefecture.
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Lumajangdong Co
Lumajangdong Co is a lake in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China with an area of 250 km2. Rutog County and Lumajangdong Co are Ngari Prefecture.
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Maryul
Maryul, also called mar-yul of mnga'-ris, was the western most Tibetan kingdom based in modern-day Ladakh and some parts of Tibet.
Mongolian gazelle
The Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), or dzeren (Дзерэн), is a medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, southern Siberia and northern China.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA Earth Observatory
NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.
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National Bureau of Statistics of China
The National Bureau of Statistics is a deputy-ministerial level agency directly under the State Council of China.
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National Development and Reform Commission
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is the third-ranked executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, which functions as a macroeconomic management agency.
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.
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Ngari Prefecture
Ngari Prefecture or Ali Prefecture is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum.
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Orba Co
Orba Co, also Wo Erba or Wo Erbacuo, is a lake in Rutog County in the Ngari Prefecture in the northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Rutog County and Orba Co are Ngari Prefecture.
Pangong Tso
Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (translit-std) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of. Rutog County and Pangong Tso are Ngari Prefecture.
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
Postal codes in China
Postal codes in the People's Republic of China are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China.
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Prefectures of China
Prefectures are one of four types of prefecture-level divisions in China, the second-level administrative division in the country.
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Qira County
Qira County (Uyghur: چىرا ناھىيىسى), alternatively Chira or Cele (from Mandarin Chinese), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Renminbi
The renminbi (symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as Chinese Yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.
Risum Township
Risum Township, geonames.org, retrieved 30 October 2022.
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Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.
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Rudok
Rudok, also spelt Rutok and Rutog, more properly Rudok Dzong, is a town that served as the historical capital of the Rudok area in Western Tibet on the frontier with Ladakh.
Rutog Town
The Rutog Town, called Rituzhen in Chinese,, KNAB place name database.
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Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
Sengge Namgyal
Sengge Namgyal (Ladakhi:, Wylie: seng-ge rnam-rgyal, c. 1570–1642) was a 17th-century Namgyal dynasty King of Ladakh, from 1616 to his death in 1642.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Sven Hedin
Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO,Wennerholm, Eric (1978) Sven Hedin – En biografi, Bonniers, Stockholm (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works.
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The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is an autonomous region of China and is part of Southwestern China.
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Tibetan antelope
The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (pronounced) is a medium-sized bovid native to the northeastern Tibetan plateau.
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Tibetan people
The Tibetan people are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet.
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Time in China
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time) based on the National Time Service Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences located in Mount Li, Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, even though the country spans five geographical time zones.
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Towns of China
When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese (traditional). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with, for example, townships.
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Townships of China
Townships, formally township-level divisions, are the basic level (fourth-level administrative units) of political divisions in the People's Republic of China.
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Wylie transliteration
Wylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter.
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Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.
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Yak
The yak (Bos grunniens), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox, or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan (Kashmir, Pakistan), Nepal, Sikkim (India), the Tibetan Plateau, (China), Tajikistan and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Yutian County, Xinjiang
Yutian County (s), also transliterated from Uyghur as Keriya County (كېرىيە ناھىيىسى; s), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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2020–2021 China–India skirmishes
Beginning on 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops engaged in aggressive melee, face-offs, and skirmishes at locations along the Sino-Indian border, including near the disputed Pangong Lake in Ladakh and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and near the border between Sikkim and the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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See also
Ngari Prefecture
- Bangda Lake
- Chang Tang Nature Reserve
- Cherko la
- Coqên County
- Dawa Lake
- Demchok sector
- Gê'gyai County
- Gar County
- Gertse County
- Gongzhucuo
- Guge
- Guozha Lake
- Jiesa Lake
- Lanak La
- Longmu Lake
- Lumajangdong Co
- Mabja Zangbo
- Maquan River
- Mayum La
- Ngari Burang Airport
- Ngari Gunsa Airport
- Ngari Prefecture
- Orba Co
- Pangong Tso
- Purang County
- Rutog County
- Semo La
- Spanggur Gap
- Tegla Kar
- Tholing Monastery
- Tong Tso
- Tsaparang
- Tsosib Sumkyil Township
- Zanda County
- Zhari Namco
- Zoco, Tibet
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutog_County
Also known as Ritu County, Rutog (County).
, Qira County, Renminbi, Risum Township, Royal Geographical Society, Rudok, Rutog Town, Salt, Sengge Namgyal, Standard Chinese, Sven Hedin, The Indian Express, The Washington Post, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan people, Time in China, Towns of China, Townships of China, Wylie transliteration, Xinhua News Agency, Yak, YouTube, Yutian County, Xinjiang, 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes.