Damxung is a county far north of the main centre of Lhasa

Lhasa

Lhasa is the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau, after Xining. At an altitude of , Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world...

 in the Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Autonomous Region , Tibet or Xizang for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China , created in 1965....

 of China

People's Republic of China

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. Its administrative seat is Damquka

Damquka

-See also:*List of towns and villages in Tibet...

.

Damxung means "selected pasture" in Tibetan language.

Geography

Damxung County is located in the middle of the Tibet Autonomous Region and by the side of the Lhamo Namco

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 Holy Lake. It covers an area of 10,036 square kilometres with a population of 38,473 (1999).

Damxung County is at the area of Gangdisê and Nyainqêntanglha Mountains. The Nyainqêntanglha range crosses through the whole county.

The biggest lake in Tibet - Lhamo Nam Co is in Damxung County. The lake covers an area of 1920 square kilometres. It's a famous tourism attraction of Tibet.

Administrative divisions

Name	Tibetan	Wylie	Chinese	Pinyin
Damquka Damquka -See also:*List of towns and villages in Tibet...	འདམ་ཆུ་ཁ།	’dam chu kha	当曲卡镇	Dāngqǔkǎ Zhèn
Yangbajain	ཡངས་པ་ཅན།།	yangs pa can	羊八井镇	Yángbājǐng Zhèn
Gyaidar Gyaidar Gyaidar is a town and township in Damxung County in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet. The township was affected by the February 5th Damxung earthquake in February 2009.Herdsmen of 151 households in Yangyi village, in Gyaidar Township had to evacuate their homes...	རྒྱས་དར།།	rgyas dar	格达乡	Gédá Xiāng
Nyingzhung	སྙིང་དྲུང།	snying drung	宁中乡	Níngzhōng Xiāng
Gongtang Gongtang Gongtang is a town and township in Damxung County in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet. Established in 1960, in 1970 it became a township. It has a population of around 4800 and contains four village committees. The economy is based around animal husbandry, mainly shepherding goats, sheep, cattle and...	ཀོང་ཐང།	kong thang	公塘乡	Gōngtáng Xiāng
Lungring	ལུང་རིང།	lung ring	龙仁乡	Lóngrén Xiāng
Wumatang Wumatang -See also:*List of towns and villages in Tibet...	དབུ་མ་ཐང།	dbu ma thang	乌玛塘乡	Wūmǎtáng Xiāng
Namco	གནམ་མཚོ།	gnam mtsho	纳木错乡	Nàmùcuò Xiāng

Economy

The main mine resources are sulfur

Sulfur

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, kaolin, pozzolana

Pozzolana

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, plaster

Plaster

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 and turf

Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...

, etc.

Animal husbandry is booming in the area. The herdsmen raise yak

Yak

The yak, Bos grunniens or Bos mutus, is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. In addition to a large domestic population, there is a small, vulnerable wild yak population...

s, sheep, goat

Goat

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s and horse

Horse

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s.

Qinghai-Tibet Highway (part of G219) goes through the whole county and Damxung railway station links the city from the north to Lhasa.

The mileage opened to traffic has reached 1625 kilometres.

See also

• Damxung Town
• Dangxiong railway station
  Dangxiong railway station
  Dangxiong railway station, or Damxung railway station is a railway station in Damxung County, Lhasa, Tibet.-Schedules:Two passenger trains in each direction stop at the station every day.- External links :*...