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Biru County

Biru County
比如县 • འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Biru County within Tibet
Location of Biru County within Tibet
Biru County is located in Tibet
Biru County
Biru County
Location in Tibet
Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 93°33′00″E / 31.77750°N 93.55000°E / 31.77750; 93.55000
Country China
Province Tibet
Prefecture Nagchu Prefecture
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)

Biru County (Tibetan འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་, Wylie 'bri ru rdzong) is a small county within the Nagchu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The name means "female yak". Either of two pronunciations can be considered correct in Standard Tibetan: [bìru] ~ [pìru] (conventionally written Biru in English) or [ɖìru] ~ [ʈìru] (conventionally Driru).

At the 2000 PRC census, the county's population was 45,222, of whom:

Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 93°33′00″E / 31.77750°N 93.55000°E / 31.77750; 93.55000


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