Tsosib Sumkyil Township
township in Zanda County, Ngari, Tibet, China
Tsosib Sumkyil (Tibetan: ཚོ་སྲིབ་གསུམ་དཀྱིལ, Wylie: tsho srib gsum dkyil, THL: tso sip sum kyil) or Churup Sumkhel (Tibetan: སུ་རུ་གསུམ་འཁྱིལ, Wylie: su ru gsum 'khyil, THL: su ru sum khyil) is the westernmost township of the Zanda County in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet region of China. It borders India's Spiti region in Himachal Pradesh as well as Rupshu region in Ladakh. The region is watered by the Pare Chu river, a tributary of the Spiti River and an upstream tributary of the Sutlej river. China has ongoing border disputes with India for the southwestern border of the region near Kaurik and the northern border near Chumar.
Name
The township is named after two villages, both of which appear to have two native names.
Tsosib (Tibetan: ཚོ་སྲིབ, Wylie: tsho srib, THL: tso sip, also spelt Tsosip, Cosib and Cosip) or Churup (Tibetan: སུ་རུ, Wylie: su ru, THL: su ru, also spelt Tsurup) is a border village on the bank of Pare Chu just before the river enters the Indian Spiti district (32.1131°N 78.7114°E / 32.1131; 78.7114 (Tsosib)).
Sumkyil or Sumkhel (Tibetan: གསུམ་དཀྱིལ, Wylie: gsum dkyil, THL: sum kyil or Tibetan: གསུམ་འཁྱིལ, Wylie: gsum 'khyil, THL: sum khyil, also spelt Sumkyi, Sumgyi, Somgyi and Sonjie) is a farming village on a tributary of Pare Chu called Sumkyil Chu. (32.1467°N 78.7766°E / 32.1467; 78.7766 (Sumkyil)).
The Sumkyil Chu stream flows through a wide enough valley to support several farming villages along its course, including Manja (Chinese: 曼扎; pinyin: Màn zhā), Tuntun (Chinese: 顿堆; pinyin: Dùn duī) and Azire (Chinese: 阿孜热; pinyin: Ā zī rè). The reference to Sumkyil in the name of the township could also to the entire Sumkyil valley.
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