Bomê County
Pome County (Tibetan: སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང) or Bomê County (Chinese: 波密县) is a county of Nyingchi Prefecture in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Historically known as Powo or Poyul, it was the seat of a quasi-independent kingdom until the early 20th century when troops of the Dalai Lama's Lhasa government integrated it into the central Tibetan realm. The population was 25,897 in 2004.
Pome County
波密县 • སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་ Bomê | |
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Gangxiang Nature Reserve | |
Location of Pome County (red) within Nyingchi City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
Pome Location of the seat in Tibet Pome Pome (China) | |
| Coordinates: 29.850°N 95.775°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nyingchi |
| County seat | Tramog |
| Area | |
| • Total | 16,072 km2 (6,205 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 34,858 |
| • Density | 2.2/km2 (5.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 波密县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 波密縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་ | ||||||||||
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