Tingri County or Dhringgri County , is a county of the Xigazê Prefecture

Xigazê Prefecture

Xigazê is a prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region in China.The administrative center of the prefecture is the city of Shigatse ....

 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....

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The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries plus the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

 including Mt. Everest (Tib. Chomolungma), Makalu

Makalu

Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world at and is located southeast of Mount Everest, on the border between Nepal and China...

 and Cho Oyo. The present county administration is located at Shelkar

Shelkar

Shelkar is the administrative centre for Tingri County in southern Tibet between Lhasa and the Tibet-Nepal Friendship Bridge, about 87 km east of Tingri ....

, about 87 km (54.1 mi) east of Tingri (town).

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