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Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).
Proper noun
Yarlung Zangbo
- The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
1983 February 27, Roy Reed, “JOURNEY TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 24, 2015, Travel, page 15:The Western traveler is usually permitted only in Lhasa, Gyangze and Xigaze, which form a slender, 200-mile-long triangle across the valley of the Yarlung Zangbo (whose water dives into Bangladesh and, as the Brahmaputra, flows into the Bay of Bengal) and its longest tributary, the Lhasa River.
2018 July 29, “Chinese premier completes secretive Tibet visit”, in EFE, archived from the original on 29 July 2018:Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Tibet's capital Lhasa, the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) river and the cities of Nyingchi and Shannan between Jul. 25-27, official news agency Xinhua reported.
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