Burang

See also: buRang

English

Alternative forms

  • Purang

Etymology

From Tibetan སྤུ་ཧྲེང (spu hreng).

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Burang

  1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • 2022 May 4, “Child snatched from mother by police in central Tibet”, in Free Tibet‎[1], archived from the original on 05 May 2022:
      Kundol Sangmo was with her mother, Dekyi, on the street of Takla Klar Town on 28 April when the incident happened. The town is located in Purang County, Ngari City in the area governed as the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the most closed part of Tibet.
    • 2022 August 9, Eunice Yang, “Coronavirus: Tibet’s Potala Palace shut as first Covid-19 cases since 2020 put Lhasa on high alert”, in South China Morning Post‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 August 2022, Science‎[3]:
      Some of those infected were members of the same family that had travelled from the southwestern city of Xigaze to Lhasa for a funeral. A day earlier, four tourists in Burang county of Ngari prefecture, who had travelled there from Xigaze, also tested positive for the virus.

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