Rutog
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Tibetan རུ་ཐོག (ru thog).
Proper noun[edit]
Rutog
- A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
- 1998, George B. Schaller, Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305:
- We obtained total livestock numbers for all eight xiangs in Gerze County that use the reserve but not the numbers of sheep, goats, yaks, and horses for three of these xiangs; we also lack data for a few xiangs in Rutog County, in the western tip of the reserve, and in Amdo County, at the eastern end (table 15.2).
- 2005, 成卫东 [Cheng Weidong], 雪域寻梦 [Dreams of Snow Land][2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 273:
- Bird Islet is located on Pangong Tso Lake in Rutog County in the north of Ngari Prefecture. The lake is 4,242 meters above sea level and is called "Com Ngangla Renbo" in Tibetan, meaning "beautiful, long and narrow lake."
- 2016 September 8, Kata Karáth, “Climate change could be to blame for an unusual avalanche in Tibet that can be seen from space”, in Quartz[3], archived from the original on 09 September 2016[4]:
- On July 17, a glacier in Rutog county in western Tibet suddenly slid, causing one of the largest ice avalanches ever documented. About 3,500 cubic feet of ice and rocks cascaded through a narrow valley, killing nine herders along with more than 350 sheep and 110 yaks in the remote village of Dungru.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Rutog.
- A town in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
- 2002, Eliot Pattison, Water Touching Stone[5], St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348:
- Shan knew about Rutog. About one hundred twenty miles from Xinjiang. Close to India. A nuclear zone, a missile command center.
- 2007, Tom Grace, The Secret Cardinal[6], Vanguard Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271:
- "Gou shi! Peng, where are they?"
Peng stood at a large wallmap of the region, estimating the intersection of the Harbin's reported sighting."
"The last reported position was in western Tibet," Peng replied, "near Bangong Co. The nearest village is Rutog."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Rutog.
Synonyms[edit]
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Ritu, Jih-t'u
Translations[edit]
county; town
Further reading[edit]
- Rutog, Rudok, Ritu, Jitu at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Rutog”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2670, column 3: “Also appears as Rudok or Ritu.”