Mêdog County
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Mêdog County
Pemako, Pemakod | |
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Location of Mêdog County within Tibet | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Nyingchi Prefecture |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Mêdog, Metok, or Motuo County (Tibetan: པདྨ་བཀོད་, w Metog Rdzong; Chinese: 墨脱县, p Mòtuō Xiàn) is a county of the Nyingtri Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of People's Republic of China. Chinese claims include parts of Arunachal Pradesh, south of the McMahon Line, what was casus belli for the 1962 Sino-Indian War.
Geography
Medog County is located in the southeast of the Tibet Autonomous Region and at the lower branch of Yarlung Tsangpo River. Medog County covers an area of 30,553 square kilometres. The average altitude of the county is 1200 metres above sea level.་Metok county is also called Pemakö. The route for hiking to Medog: Paizhen(派镇)-Songlinkou(松林口)-Lage(拉格)-Hanmi(汗密)-Aniqiao(阿尼桥)-Beibengxiang(背崩)-Modog(墨脱)
Climate and wildlife
Medog has a favourable climate caused by the relatively low elevations in parts of the county (down to just 600 m above sea level in the Yarlung Zangbo river valley) and by the South Asian monsoon, which brings moisture from the Indian Ocean. The area is lush and covered with trees and includes the Medog National Animal and Plant Reserve Area. It has more than 3,000 species of plants, 42 species of rare animals under special state protection, and over a thousand hexapod species.[clarification needed]
Highway
In December, 2010 the Chinese government announced completion of a highway to Mêdog County, the last county in China which did not have road access.[1]
Economy
Farming is the main industry in Medog County. It is abundant with paddy, soybean, cotton and gingeli, etc. Hairy deerhorn, gastrodia tuber, muskiness, and hedgehog hydnum, etc. are special products of the area.
Demography
Medog county has a population of 9,200, and most people who live in the county are of Tshangla ethnic minority and Lhoba ethnic group. The most renowned part of Medog is known as Pemako. Its inhabitants speak a form of Monpa or Tshangla (Chinese: 仓洛, Cāngluò) related to that spoken in eastern Bhutan. They practice the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Frank Kingdon-Ward was the first Westerner to describe the area in his 1925 book, Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. In his 1994 "Tibet Handbook", Hong Kong-born Victor Chan describes the extremely difficult trek from Pemakö Chung to the beyul Gonpo Ne, one of the remotest spots on earth. A modern journey by Ian Baker and his National Geographic-sponsored team to Pemakö received book-length treatment in his 1994 The Heart of the World.
See also
The website of Mêdog Goverment:http://www.motuo.gov.cn/
Notes
- ^ Edward Wong (December 16, 2010). "Isolated County in Tibet Is Linked to Highway System". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
29°29′N 95°30′E / 29.483°N 95.500°E
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