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Yarlung Zangbo

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

Proper noun

Yarlung Zangbo

  1. The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of Yarlung Zangbo

alternative formYarlung Tsangpo

Origin of Yarlung Zangbo

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

Questions about Yarlung Zangbo

What does Yarlung Zangbo mean?
Yarlung Zangbo means the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
What part of speech is Yarlung Zangbo?
Yarlung Zangbo is a proper noun.

Words near Yarlung Zangbo in the dictionary

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

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