Mêdog County

Medog ( Metog Dzong, Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་, according to Wylie transliteration: me tog rdzong ) or Motuo (Chinese墨脱 县, Pinyin: Motuo Xiàn ) is a district in the southeast of the district of Nyingchi in the southeastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. In 1999, he counted 9,868 residents. The main town has 1878 inhabitants and is the hardest to reach ' county town ' of the People's Republic of China. Already built roads are difficult natural conditions (steep southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas, high monsoon rainfall ) has so far fallen victim to regularly.

The Yarlung Tsangpo ( Brahmaputra ) flows around the border of the counties Main Ling and Medog the 7782 meter high mountain Namjagbarwa.

Medog fault zone

The district is located in a seismically active area, the Medog fault zone ( Motuo Fault ) (墨脱 断裂带). It belongs to a system of geological faults that are active with the Eurasian plate due to the collision of the Indian. Since 1900, several associated with this activity earthquake took place in Medog, two of them with a magnitude greater than 7

Administrative Divisions

At the community level, the circle of a large village, six municipalities and one nationality congregation sits together. These are:

• Greater community Medog (墨脱 镇), the capital, the seat of county government;
• Community Baibung (背崩 乡);
• Community Bangxin (旁 辛 乡);
• Community Dexing (德兴 乡);
• Community Gade (甘 登 乡);
• Community Godang (格 当 乡);
• Community Qarasa (加热 萨 乡);
• Community Dagmo the Lhoba (达 木 珞巴族 乡).