Yarlung Zangbo

English

Alternative forms

• Yarlung Tsangpo

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Yarlung Zangbo

1. The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 2018 July 29, “Chinese premier completes secretive Tibet visit”, in EFE‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 July 2018:

     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.

Translations

Yarlung Tsangpo — see Yarlung Tsangpo

References

• Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)