Biru County

Biru County
比如县འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།
County

Location of Biru County within Tibet
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:

Name of group Number Percentage
Tibetans 44,867 99.21%
Han 313 0.69%
Bai 11 0.02%
Uyghurs 9 0.02%
Others 22 0.05%

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

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