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Rutog
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English
Rutog county
Alternative forms
en Rudok
Etymology
From en bo རུ་ཐོག.
Pronunciation
ro͞o′dōken 1952 Rudok or Rudog Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1610 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1610/ 3
Proper noun
en county prefecture:Suf/Ngari ar:Suf/Tibet c/China.
en 1998 w:George B. Schaller Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe https://archive.org/details/wildlifeoftibeta0000scha_q4s8/ w:University of Chicago Press 0-226-73652-0 97-36053 903331989 305 https://archive.org/details/wildlifeoftibeta0000scha_q4s8/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).
en 2005 zh:成卫东<t:Cheng Weidong> zh:雪域寻梦<t:Dreams of Snow Land> https://archive.org/details/dreamsofsnowland0000chen/ Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 7-119-03883-4 245560234 273 https://archive.org/details/dreamsofsnowland0000chen/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."
en September 08, 2016 Kata Karáth Climate change could be to blame for an unusual avalanche in Tibet that can be seen from space https://web.archive.org/web/20160909142657/https://qz.com/776524/climate-change-could-be-to-blame-for-unusual-deadly-avalanche-from-a-surging-glacier-in-tibet-that-can-be-seen-from-space/ 09 September 2016 Quartz (publication) Quartz 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.
en
en town county:Suf/Rutog pref:Suf/Ngari ar:Suf/Tibet c/China.
en 2002 w:Eliot Pattison Water Touching Stone https://archive.org/details/watertouchingsto00patt/ w:St. Martin's Paperbacks 0-312-98217-8 869780402 348 https://archive.org/details/watertouchingsto00patt/page/348/ Shan knew about Rutog. About one hundred twenty miles from Xinjiang. Close to India. A nuclear zone, a missile command center.
en 2007 Tom Grace The Secret Cardinal https://archive.org/details/secretcardinal00tomg/ w:Vanguard Press 978-159315-484-4 2007016252 212848391 271 https://archive.org/details/secretcardinal00tomg/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."
en
Synonyms
from Mandarin Chinese en Ritu, en Jih-t'u
Translations
county; town
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 日土
Mandarin: cmn 日土 Rìtǔ
Japanese: ja
Tibetan: bo རུ་ཐོག
References
Further reading
Rutog, Rudok, Ritu, Jitu
en 1998 Rutog Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2670 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2670/ 3 Also appears as Rudok or Ritu.
Anagrams
en gortu Grout grout