Administrative Sub-divisions
The Shannan Prefecture is marked by China with a geographical area of 79,700 square kilometres (30,800 sq mi) distributed over 12 counties with a total population of 330,000. However, a large part of the counties of Lhünzê (隆子县) and Cona (错那县), covering an area of 28,700 square kilometres (11,100 sq mi) and collectively known as South Tibet, are shown by the Chinese government to be Tibetan territory (although in the control of India) and hence marked disputed. The details of the names of the county, its transliterated names in Hanzi, Hanyu Pinyin, Wylie, Tibetan, population (as of 2003), area and density of population are given in the following table.
| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2003 est.) | Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nêdong County | 乃东县 | Nǎidōng Xiàn | སྣེ་གདོང་རྫོང་ | sne gdong rdzong | 60,000 | 2,211 | 46 |
| 2 | Zhanang County | 扎囊县 | Zhānáng Xiàn | གྲ་ནང་རྫོང་ | gra nang rdzong | 40,000 | 2,157 | 19 |
| 3 | Gonggar County | 贡嘎县 | Gònggā Xiàn | འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་ | gong dkar rdzong | 50,000 | 2,283 | 21 |
| 4 | Sangri County | 桑日县 | Sāngrì Xiàn | ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་ | zangs ri rdzong | 20,000 | 2,634 | 8 |
| 5 | Qonggyai County | 琼结县 | Qióngjié Xiàn | འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་ | 'phyongs rgyas rdzong | 20,000 | 1,030 | 19 |
| 6 | Qusum County | 曲松县 | Qūsōng Xiàn | ཆུ་གསུམ་རྫོང་ | chu gsum rdzong | 20,000 | 1,936 | 10 |
| 7 | Comai County | 措美县 | Cuòměi Xiàn | མཚོ་སམད་རྫོང་ | mtsho smad rdzong | 10,000 | 4,530 | 2 |
| 8 | Lhozhag County | 洛扎县 | Luòzhā Xiàn | ལྷོ་བྲག་རྫོང་ | lho brag rdzong | 20,000 | 5,570 | 4 |
| 9 | Gyaca County | 加查县 | Jiāchá Xiàn | རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་ | rgya tsha rdzong | 20,000 | 4,493 | 5 |
| 10 | Lhünzê County | 隆子县 | Lóngzǐ Xiàn | ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ | lhun rtse rdzong | 30,000 | 9,809 | 3 |
| 11 | Cona County | 错那县 | Cuònà Xiàn | མཚོ་སྣ་རྫོང་ | mtsho sna rdzong | 10,000 | 34,979 | 0 |
| 12 | Nagarzê County | 浪卡子县 | Làngkǎzǐ Xiàn | སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་ | sna dkar rtse rdzong | 30,000 | 8,109 | 5 |
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