Nêdong District
Nêdong District (Tibetan: སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས།, Wylie: sne gdong chus, ZYPY: Nêdong Qü ; simplified Chinese: 乃东区; traditional Chinese: 乃東區; pinyin: Nǎidōng Qū) is a district of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Nêdong 乃东区 • སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས། | |
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District | |
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.png) Location of Nêdong (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Nêdong Location in Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates: 29°13′12″N 91°46′48″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shannnan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,184.98 km2 (843.63 sq mi) |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Total | 58,808 |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
Tradruk Temple, an important early Buddhist monastery dating to the reign of Songtsen Gampo, is located in the Yarlung Valley in Nêdong as is Yungbulakang Palace.
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