Purang Town
Purang
Pulan, Burang, Taklakot | |
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Purang County Health Service Center located in Purang Town | |
Interactive map of Purang | |
Purang Location within Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates (Purang Town government): 30°17′10″N 81°10′37″E / 30.2861°N 81.1770°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County | Purang |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,257.81 km2 (1,257.85 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,900 m (12,800 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 6,047 |
| • Density | 1.856/km2 (4.807/sq mi) |
| • Major Nationalities | Tibetan |
| • Regional dialect | Tibetan language |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 普兰镇 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 普蘭鎮 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ | ||||||||||
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Purang or Burang (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ, Wylie: spu hreng grong rdal, THL: pu hreng drong del, Chinese: 普兰镇), also known as Taklakot, is a town which serves as the administrative center of Purang County, Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. The town lies at an altitude of 3,900 m (12,800 ft) in the valley of the Karnali River. The town spans an area of 3,257.81 square kilometres (1,257.85 sq mi), and has a permanent population 6,047 as of 2010, and a hukou population of 4,477 as of 2018. To the south are Gurla Mandhata (Mount Namonanyi) and the Abi Gamin ranges. Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash are to the north. This region is the mythological and actual river nexus of the Himalaya with sources of the Indus, Ganges and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra all within 110 kilometres (70 mi) of Purang.