Bamda Knowpia

Bamda Township

帮达乡
Bamda Township 帮达乡
Township
	Bamda Location within the Tibet Autonomous Region
	Coordinates: 29°26′42″N 98°42′14″E / 29.4449°N 98.7040°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level city	Nyingchi
County	Markam
Elevation	3,805 m (12,486 ft)
Population
• Total	789
• Major Nationalities	Tibetan
• Regional dialect	Tibetan language
Time zone	UTC+8 (CST)

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]

Footnotes edit

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

Bamda Township 帮达乡
Township
Bamda Location within the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates: 29°26′42″N 98°42′14″E / 29.4449°N 98.7040°E / 29.4449; 98.7040
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level city	Nyingchi
County	Markam
Elevation	3,805 m (12,486 ft)
Population
• Total	789
• Major Nationalities	Tibetan
• Regional dialect	Tibetan language
Time zone	UTC+8 (CST)