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Yarlung Tsangpo

/ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ/

Yarlung Tsangpo proper noun: the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Proper noun

Yarlung Tsangbo

  1. The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.1998, George B. Schaller, Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21
    • A forty-minute drive through the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley took the team from the airport to the city of Lhasa.2015, Chris Kuzneski, The Prisoner's Gold, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 232

Forms of Yarlung Tsangpo

alternative formYarlung Zangbo

Origin of Yarlung Tsangpo

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

Questions about Yarlung Tsangpo

What does Yarlung Tsangpo mean?
Yarlung Tsangpo means the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
What part of speech is Yarlung Tsangpo?
Yarlung Tsangpo is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Yarlung Tsangpo?
Yarlung Tsangpo is pronounced /ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ/.

Words near Yarlung Tsangpo in the dictionary

  1. yarligh
  2. yarlighs
  3. yarling
  4. Yarlington
  5. yarls
  6. Yarlung Tsangpo
  7. Yarlung Zangbo
  8. yarlyg
  9. yarlygs
  10. yarlyk
  11. yarlyks

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