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Yagra Township, Zhongba County

Coordinates: 29°32′30″N 83°56′16″E / 29.54167°N 83.93778°E / 29.54167; 83.93778
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Yagra
Yagra is located in China
Yagra
Yagra
Location within Tibet
Coordinates: 29°32′30″N 83°56′16″E / 29.54167°N 83.93778°E / 29.54167; 83.93778
CountryChina
RegionTibet
Population
 • Total
 • Major Nationalities
Tibetan
 • Regional dialect
Tibetan language
Time zone+8

Yagra is a village and township in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, not far from the base of the sacred Mount Kailash.[1] The Bukhar, one of the upper tributaries of the Indus River, begins near Yagra and is fed by snowmelt.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Albinia (2008), p. 307.

References

  • Albinia, Alice. (2008) Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River. First American Edition (2010) W. W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-0-393-33860-7.

See also