Mainling City
Sign in to saveAlso known as milin xian, Mainling County, Menling, Miling, Manling, Milin, Zêlagang
Mainling (; ), formerly Mainling County, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mainling
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- County-level city
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- Namcha Barwa from the west.jpg
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- Western slope of Namcha Barwa, captured from Naibai Observation Deck, Mainling City
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- Tibet#China
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- Mainling
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- Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
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- Country
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- China
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- Autonomous region
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- Tibet
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Nyingchi
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- Municipal seat
- Settlement.seat
- Mainling
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 9,490
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 26176
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Mainling (; ), formerly Mainling County, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
==Geography== Mainling is located in the central-west of the Nyingtri Prefecture, at the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and between the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains. It de jure covers an area of 9,490 square kilometres, including the area claimed but de facto under control of the Arunachal Pradesh, India. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mainling City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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