page_title: Nyima County
hierarchical_section_title: Nyima County
caption_attribution_description: Location of Nyima County (pink) and Nagchu Prefecture (yellow) within Tibet (Xizang) autonomous region of China
context_page_description: Nyima County is the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.
  With an area of 72,499 km² and a population of 29,000, it has an average population density of less than 0.4 people per square kilometre.
  It is situated in the central-northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, between Nagqu's Shuanghu County to the east and Ngari's Gêrzê County to the west.
context_section_description: Nyima County (Tibetan: ཉི་མ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: nyi ma rdzong, ZYPY: Nyima Zong; simplified Chinese: 尼玛县; traditional Chinese: 尼瑪縣; pinyin: Nímǎ Xiàn) is  the westernmost county-level division under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The northern part of the county is within the Changtang area.
  With an area of 72,499 km² (27,992 sq mi) and a population of 29,000 (2012), it has an average population density of less than 0.4 people per square kilometre.
  It is situated in the central-northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, between Nagqu's Shuanghu County to the east and Ngari's Gêrzê County to the west.
caption: Location of Nyima County within Tibet (outdated map, shows the situation in 2007, before the establishment of Shuanghu County in 2012)
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