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Yarlung Zangbo en · PROPN

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).

Meanings

1. The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Tibet's capital Lhasa, the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) river and the cities of Nyingchi and Shannan between Jul. 25-27, official news agency Xinhua reported. 2018 July 29, “Chinese premier completes secretive Tibet visit”, in EFE, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018:
   • The Western traveler is usually permitted only in Lhasa, Gyangze and Xigaze, which form a slender, 200-mile-long triangle across the valley of the Yarlung Zangbo (whose water dives into Bangladesh and, as the Brahmaputra, flows into the Bay of Bengal) and its longest tributary, the Lhasa River. 1983 February 27, Roy Reed, “JOURNEY TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Travel, page 15:
   • India's foreign ministry said on Friday that New Delhi has conveyed its concerns to Beijing about China's plan to build a hydropower dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Zangbo river which flows into India. 2025 January 3, Sakshi Dayal, Sudipto Ganguly, “India says it conveyed concerns to China over hydropower dam in Tibet”, in YP Rajesh, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2025:

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