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'Shannan Prefecture' (; simplified Chinese: 山南地区; pinyin: Shānnán Dìqū) is a prefecture in the Southeastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region. As of 2002 it has a population of 320,000 and an area of 79.699 km². Much of Shannan Prefecture encompass the western part of the Indian district of Arunachal Pradesh, a disputed area with China.
The Samye and the Changzhug monasteries are located in Shannan Prefecture, as well as Tsetang, Tibet's third largest town. The Tawang monastery, located in Tawang District, which is an area claimed by China and administratively placed under Shannan's jurisdiction by Chinese sovereignty claim. Shannan is predominantly inhabited by members of the Monpa ethnic group.

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Administrative Sub-divisions

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Administrative Sub-divisions

Name	Tibetan	Wylie	Chinese	Pinyin
Nêdong County	སྣེ་གདོང་རྫོང་	sne gdong rdzong	乃东县	Nǎidōng Xiàn
Zhanang County	གྲ་ནང་རྫོང་	gra nang rdzong	扎囊县	Zhānáng Xiàn
Gonggar County	གོང་དཀར་རྫོང་	gong dkar rdzong	贡嘎县	Gònggā Xiàn
Sangri County	ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་	zangs ri rdzong	桑日县	Sāngrì Xiàn
Qonggyai County	འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་	'phyongs rgyas rdzong	琼结县	Qióngjié Xiàn
Qusum County	ཆུ་གསུམ་རྫོང་	chu gsum rdzong	曲松县	Qūsōng Xiàn
Comai County	མཚོ་སམད་རྫོང་	mtsho smad rdzong	措美县	Cuòměi Xiàn
Lhozhag County	ལྷོ་བྲག་རྫོང་	lho brag rdzong	洛扎县	Luòzhā Xiàn
Gyaca County	རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་	rgya tsha rdzong	加查县	Jiāchá Xiàn
Lhünzê County	ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་	lhun rtse rdzong	隆子县	Lóngzǐ Xiàn
Cona County	མཚོ་སྣ་རྫོང་	mtsho sna rdzong	错那县	Cuònà Xiàn
Nagarzê County	སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་	sna dkar rtse rdzong	浪卡子县	Làngkǎzǐ Xiàn

External links

★ Chinese government website of Shannan

★ The lines nations draw

★ Sightseeing List in Shannan