Ngari Prefecture
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Ngari Prefecture (Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: mnga' ris sa khul; simplified Chinese: 阿里地区; pinyin: Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Its capital is Gar County. It includes part of the Aksai Chin area, a part of Kashmir, which is disputed with India. China exercises administrative control. The Xin-Zang Road (新藏公路）passes through this area. There's a famous pre-historic culture site near the town of Ritu (日土）.
Subdivisions
The prefecture is subdivided into 7 county-level divisions: 7 counties.
- Gar County (སྒར་རྫོང་ sgar rdzong; 噶尔县 Gá'ěr Xiàn)
- Burang County (སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་ spu hreng rdzong; 普兰县 Pǔlán Xiàn)
- Zanda County (རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་ rtsa mda' rdzong; 札达县 Zhádá Xiàn)
- Rutog County (རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་ ru thog rdzong; 日土县 Rìtǔ Xiàn)
- Gê'gyai County (དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་ dge rgyas rdzong; 革吉县 Géjí Xiàn)
- Gêrzê County (སྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་ sger rtse rdzong; 改则县 Gǎizé Xiàn)
- Coqên County (མཚོ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ mtsho chen rdzong; 措勤县 Cuòqín Xiàn)
Prefecture-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region
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