Biru County
Biru County
比如县 • འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་། Diru, Driru, Biru | |
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Location of Biru County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 93°33′00″E / 31.77750°N 93.55000°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
| County seat | Biru |
| Area | |
• Total | 11,683.45 km2 (4,511.01 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 72,618 |
| • Density | 6.2/km2 (16/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 比如县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 比如縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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Biru County (Tibetan: འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 比如县) is the most populated county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The name means "female yak". Either of the following pronunciations can be considered correct in Standard Tibetan: [bìru] ~ [pìru] (conventionally written Biru in English) or [ɖìru] ~ [ʈìru] (conventionally Driru).