Medog

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Etymology

From Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (me tog).

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Medog

  1. A county of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • 2002, Michael McRae, The Siege of Shangri-La‎, New York: Broadway Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124:
      Their trek took them across the snowbound Gawalung pass from the Lhasa-Sichuan road and then south along the Tsangpo to Medog, a garrison town near the Indian border.
    • 2005, 成卫东 [Cheng Weidong], 雪域寻梦 [Dreams of Snow Land]‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:
      At present, there are only three routes to Medog on foot.
    • 2010 December 16, Edward Wong, “Isolated County in Tibet Is Linked to Highway System”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 July 2013, Asia Pacific‎:
      China announced Thursday that it had connected a Tibetan county, Medog, to the nation’s highway system, ending the relative isolation of the area. Until Wednesday, Medog, in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, was the last county in China with no highway linking it to the outside world, officials said.
    • 2020 March 1, Yang, J. et al., “Medicinal and edible plants used by the Lhoba people in Medog County, Tibet, China”, in Journal of Ethnopharmacology‎, volume 249, →DOI, article 112430:
      The Lhoba people are a small, ancient, tribal ethnic group from the Himalayas and are located in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Medog County is rich in biocultural diversity. For a long time, Medog has been almost isolated from the outside world. The Lhoba people, who live in Medog, have maintained a relatively unique lifestyle and have accumulated rich traditional knowledge (TK), especially about medicinal and edible plants.
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