Noh, Ngari Prefecture

Village in Tibet, China

Wujiang Üchang Noh
Village
Wujiang
Coordinates: 33°37′06″N 79°48′34″E / 33.6184°N 79.8095°E / 33.6184; 79.8095
Country	China
Region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari
County	Rutog
Area
• Total	4,500 km2 (1,700 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	4,322 m (14,180 ft)
Population  (2009)[2]
• Total	818

Noh,^[3] also called ÜchangorWujang^[4] (Tibetan: དབུས་བྱང, Wylie: dbus byang, THL: wü jang)^[5] is a village in the Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet region of China. It is located on the northern bank of the eastern Pangong Lake (Tso Ngombo), watered by the Doma River (Tsanger-schar). The village is now part of the Domar Township.

Noh is described as a temple town by European travellers. It is the only permanently inhabited place on the northern bank of the Pangong Lake.^[3] It is frequently referred to in the British records of the Pangong Lake, but the British (and "foreigners" in general) were not generally allowed to visit it.^[6][7][8]

Geography[edit]

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The state highway S520 called Banying Highway connects Noh with the Khurnak Plain and the Kongka Pass in the Chang Chenmo Valley. The latter is on the Line of Actual Control with India. S520 also connects to the National Highway G219 (Aksai Chin road) in the east.

Current status[edit]

As of 2009, there are 818 people living in the village.^[2] There is also an army base of a border defence company, which is said to have the hard task of defending a long border. According to the Xizang Government, they get along well with each other.^[9]

Historical maps[edit]

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  The Pangong Lake area in a map of Ngari Khorsum by Henry Strachey, 1851
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  Noh along a trade route of Ladakh (1873)

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  Map of the expeditions of Sven Hedin (1906-8) including Noh (RGS, early 20th century)
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  Map including Noh (AMS, 1950)^[a]
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  Map showing Shan-ho (DMA, 1980)
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  Map showing Wu-chiang (Wüjang) (DMA, 1995)

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890
• Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1867). "Notes on the Pangong Lake District of Ladakh, from a Journal Made during a Survey in 1863". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 37: 343–363. doi:10.2307/1798534. JSTOR 1798534.
• Hedin, Sven (1907), Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899–1902, Vol. IV: Central and West Tibet, Stockholm: Lithographic Institute of the General Staff of the Swedish Army – via archive.org
• Strachey, Henry (1854), Physical Geography of Western Tibet, London: William Clows and Sons – via archive.org