Zanda County

Zanda County or Tsamda County (Tibetan: རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང, Chinese: 札达县) is a county in the Ngari Prefecture to the extreme west of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Its seat of power is at Tholing, the former capital of the Guge kingdom.

Zanda County 札达县 • རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་། Tsamda
County
Landscape of Zanda, viewed from Tsaparang.
Location of Zanda County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Zanda Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Show map of Ngari Zanda Zanda (Tibet) Show map of Tibet Zanda Zanda (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Zanda County government): 31°29′03″N 79°41′11″E / 31.48417°N 79.68639°E / 31.48417; 79.68639
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari
County seat	Tholing
Area
• Total	24,601.59 km2 (9,498.73 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	8,454
• Density	0.34/km2 (0.89/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	zd.al.gov.cn

Zanda is said to mean “a place where there is grass downstream”,^{[2][unreliable source?]} an allusion to the grassy river bed of the Sutlej river that flows through the county. Ancient Zanda horse (Hipparion zandaense) skeletons have been found in Zanda County's Sutlej basin.^[3]

Zanda County is bounded by India's Himachal Pradesh state to the west, Uttarakhand State to the south, Ladakh to the northwest, Gar County to the northeast and Burang County to the southeast.