Shannan refers to the Gangdise mountains and Nianqing Tanggula Mountain area to the south, the transverse width420 km long,329kilometers, gross area 8million square kilometers of the region. Along the southwest direction of winding the Himalayas, India and Bhutan South will separate. Hill north and south across the Brahmaputra Qushui bridge of Lhasa, against the river on the west to Shigatse, but arrived in Tibet the average elevation of the lowest areas - Linzhi.
The elevation of 3600 meters, a mild climate, is a typical plateau valley plain area. The Gangdese, the tall mountains towering Jiazhi, make here precipitation temperature is not abundant, like west Tibet Tibet, so cold. Central Yu Shannan Jiang Zheng across the middle, the river is open, numerous tributaries, ten kilometers long, a few kilometers wide ranging from Valley has the distribution. Both sides of the high mountain valley ranch, the waist is forest, valley and estuary is fertile farmland, the most suitable for the highland barley, buckwheat, wheat and highland crops growth, is a long history of human settlement and agriculture develop area, since ancient times, entitled " Tibet barn" beautiful praise.
Shannan in Zedang town as a regional center, the region is divided into 12 counties, the existing reservoir, Han, Moinba, Lhoba nationality back, a total of 29thousand much population, the Tibetans accounted for98%.
The Tibet autonomous region of the richest, most profound historical and cultural origins of the region. By the upland agriculture civilization development and expansion of the Tubo Dynasty is the rise of, therefore, southern Tibet is also known as the birthplace of civilization and twice in the history of the Tibet dominion centre. Peaks, lakes, springs, river valley formed the unique geographical scenery, the Yalong River scenic area, is a national key scenic spots, here are the Tubo Dynasty period left King tombs, Tibet first temple - the Samye monastery, Yong Bu Lacan, Changzhu temple, temple, famous cultural relics. A long history left a rich cultural heritage as well as the mysterious religious culture to become a tourist wants to shannan.

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