Bamda

Bamda (Tibetan: སྤངམདའ།, Wylie: spang mdav ;[1] simplified Chinese: 帮达乡; traditional Chinese: 幫達鄉; pinyin: Bāngdá Xiāng) is a small township in Markam County in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) from Lhasa. It is basically an army garrison with a small Tibetan village around the corner.[2]

Bamda Township

帮达乡
Township
Bamda
Location within the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates: 29°26′42″N 98°42′14″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level cityNyingchi
CountyMarkam
Elevation
3,805 m (12,486 ft)
Population
 • Total789
 • Major Nationalities
Tibetan
 • Regional dialect
Tibetan language
Time zoneUTC+8 (CST)

Footnotes
  1. 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 24. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.
  2. Buckley, Michael and Strauss, Robert. Tibet: a travel survival kit, p, 217. (1986) Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 0-908086-88-1.

See also
  • List of towns and villages in Tibet Autonomous Region


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