Phari
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Phari or Pagri (; ) is a town in Yadong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China near the border with Bhutan. The border can be accessed through a secret road/trail connecting Tsento Gewog in Bhutan () known as Tremo La. the town had a population of 2,121. It is one of the highest towns in the world, being about above sea-level at the head of the Chumbi Valley.
Key facts
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- Phari
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- Pagri
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- Town
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- Tibet
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- Location in the Tibet Autonomous Region
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- Country
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- People's Republic of China
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- Autonomous region
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- Prefecture-level city
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- County
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- Tibet Autonomous Region
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- Shigatse
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- Yadong
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- 2121
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- 2004
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- CST
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- +8
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Phari or Pagri (; ) is a town in Yadong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China near the border with Bhutan. The border can be accessed through a secret road/trail connecting Tsento Gewog in Bhutan () known as Tremo La. the town had a population of 2,121. It is one of the highest towns in the world, being about above sea-level at the head of the Chumbi Valley.
==History== Thomas Manning, the first Englishman to reach Lhasa, visited Pagri from 21September until 5November 1811 and had this to say about his room in the town: "Dirt, dirt, grease, smoke. Misery, but good mutton." The Pagri Fortress (Dzong) was located here and was important for the government as it stood between Tibet and Bhutan. Pagri was a staging area en route to Gyantse and ultimately Lhasa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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