• Thumbnail for Yarlung Tsangpo
    The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo (Tibetan: ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་, Wylie: yar kLungs gTsang po, ZYPY: Yarlung Zangbo) and Yalu Zangbu River (Chinese:...
    13 KB (1,240 words) - 02:50, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
    The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, also known as the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, the Tsangpo Canyon, the Brahmaputra Canyon or the Tsangpo Gorge (simplified...
    19 KB (2,217 words) - 02:07, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indus-Yarlung suture zone
    The Indus-Yarlung suture zone or the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo suture is a tectonic suture in southern Tibet and across the north margin of the Himalayas which...
    3 KB (318 words) - 17:50, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brahmaputra River
    India, and Bangladesh. It is known as Brahmaputra or Luit in Assamese, Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, and Jamuna River...
    76 KB (7,198 words) - 12:37, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe
    The Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1022) covers the river valley of the Yarlung Tsangpo River on the southern edge of Tibet. The river...
    5 KB (446 words) - 19:35, 9 March 2024
  • a tributary of Sun Kosi. Raga Tsangpo Rongshar Tsangpo, a tributary of Tamakoshi River Yarlung Tsangpo, the upper Brahmaputra River in Tibet Tsang (disambiguation)...
    888 bytes (126 words) - 06:57, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geology of the Himalayas
    Himalayan Thrust. ISZ, also called Indus-Yarlung suture zone, Yarlung-Zangpo Suture Zone or Yarlung-Tsangpo Suture Zone, defines the zone of collision...
    36 KB (3,915 words) - 03:42, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parlung Tsangpo
    Nyingchi, Tibet, China. It is the largest tributary on the left side of Yarlung Tsangpo. Its source is the Arza Gongla Glacier, at an elevation of 4900m. It...
    4 KB (167 words) - 23:02, 16 January 2022
  • Look up Yarlung Tsangpo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yarlung can refer to: Yarlung Kingdom, see also: Tibetan empire Yarlung dynasty, see also:...
    535 bytes (118 words) - 23:25, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake Pelku
    Plateau in Shigatse Prefecture. It is 18 kilometers (11 mi) south of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River, bordering Saga County, Gyirong County, and Nyalam...
    4 KB (266 words) - 08:03, 24 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Himalayas
    anchor, Namcha Barwa, lies immediately west of the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. The range varies in width from 350 km (220 mi) in the west to...
    80 KB (10,162 words) - 16:05, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Canyon
    somewhat well-defined rim elevation). The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon (or Tsangpo Canyon), along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, is regarded by some as...
    23 KB (2,211 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tibet
    Ganges, Salween and the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra River). The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, along the Yarlung Tsangpo River, is among the deepest...
    114 KB (11,521 words) - 07:20, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siang
    originated at Angsi Glacier in western Tibet, it is also known as Yarlung Tsangpo may also refer to: Xiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze it gives...
    658 bytes (92 words) - 13:07, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Namcha Barwa
    rarely visited by outsiders. It stands inside the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River as the river enters its notable gorge across the Himalaya, emerging...
    10 KB (903 words) - 14:40, 30 October 2024
  • areas: The southern part of Tibet, covering the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Valley between Saga County to the west and Mainling County to...
    5 KB (678 words) - 17:22, 31 March 2024
  • route by which the Tsangpo River reaches the sea from north of Himalaya, through the Tsangpo Gorge. North of Himalaya, the Yarlung Tsangpo River flows east...
    9 KB (1,058 words) - 07:46, 19 December 2020
  • Thumbnail for Gyala Peri
    the Himalayas. Gyala Peri lies just north of the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, the main river of southeastern Tibet, which becomes the Brahmaputra...
    4 KB (271 words) - 02:45, 29 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kosi River
    river basin is surrounded by ridges which separate the Kosi from the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the north, the Gandaki in the west and the Mahananda in the...
    35 KB (4,032 words) - 19:41, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lhasa (city)
    correspond to the basin of the Lhasa River, a major tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. It lies on the Lhasa terrane, the last unit of crust to accrete...
    119 KB (11,874 words) - 12:35, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Namcha Barwa Himal
    River on the international border NE into Tibet to the canyon of the Yarlung Tsangpo (the Brahmaputra in India), where the Himalaya are said to end, although...
    4 KB (314 words) - 23:41, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bomê County
    Bomê County (redirect from Yi'ong Tsangpo)
    Tsangpo gorge, where the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) river turns abruptly to the south on its course towards India. Two major rivers Yi'ong Tsangpo...
    15 KB (764 words) - 13:34, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nanga Parbat
    the traditional view of the Himalayas as bounded by the Indus and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra rivers, it is the western anchor of the entire mountain...
    47 KB (5,667 words) - 09:54, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lhasa River
    northern tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The Yarlung Tsangpo is the upper section of the...
    21 KB (2,571 words) - 06:40, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friendship Highway (China–Nepal)
    (40 mi) up to the confluence with the Yarlung Tsangpo River at Chushul. The main route continues along the Yarlung valley up to Shigatse, Tibet's second-largest...
    5 KB (560 words) - 11:07, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tibet Autonomous Region
    region is characterized by fertile mountain valleys and includes the Yarlung Tsangpo River (the upper courses of the Brahmaputra) and its major tributary...
    73 KB (6,239 words) - 11:32, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Morshead
    achievements – with Frederick Bailey he explored the Tsangpo Gorge and finally confirmed that the Yarlung Tsangpo flows into the Brahmaputra River after cascading...
    20 KB (2,549 words) - 15:06, 7 August 2024
  • on the only road from Mainling to Mêdog, near the entrance to the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon. The population was 1,771 (2000). List of towns and villages...
    2 KB (46 words) - 15:11, 5 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for List of dams on the Brahmaputra River
    originates near Mount Kailash, flows through Tibet where it is called Yarlung Tsangpo. It enters India in Arunachal Pradesh in Eastern Himalaya, and then...
    9 KB (422 words) - 01:46, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tibetan Plateau
    the central and northeastern Tibetan Plateau The Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe in the Yarlung Tsangpo river Valley, where most of the permanent human population...
    41 KB (4,810 words) - 23:21, 24 October 2024