Kamba County

Kamba County (Tibetan: གམ་པ་རྫོང, Chinese: 岗巴县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering India's Sikkim state to the south.^[2]

Kamba County 岗巴县 • གམ་པ་རྫོང་། Gamba, Gangba
County
Location of Kamba County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Kamba Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R. Show map of Tibet Kamba Kamba (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 28°16′33″N 88°31′14″E / 28.27583°N 88.52056°E / 28.27583; 88.52056
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Xigazê
County seat	Kamba
Area
• Total	4,204 km^2 (1,623 sq mi)
Population  (2020)^[1]
• Total	11,276
• Density	2.7/km^2 (6.9/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.gbx.gov.cn

Kamba County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	岗巴县
Traditional Chinese	崗巴縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gǎngbā Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གམ་པ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie gam pa rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Gamba Zong

Administration divisions

Kamba County is divided into 1 town and 4 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Town
Kampa Town (Kampa Dzong)	岗巴镇	Gǎngbā zhèn	གམ་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	gam pa grong rdal
Townships
Changlung Township	昌龙乡	Chānglóng xiāng	གྲང་ལུང་ཤང་།	grang lung shang
Chig Township	直克乡	Zhíkè xiāng	འགྲིགས་ཤང་།	'grigs shang
Gurme Township	孔玛乡	Kǒngmǎ xiāng	གུར་མེ་ཤང་།	gur me shang
Lungrong Township	龙中乡	Lóngzhōng xiāng	གྲང་ལུང་ཤང་།	grang lung shang

References

1. "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
2. Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.