Valley in Yadong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
This article is about the valley in the Yadong County. For the town, see Chumbi. For other uses, see Chumbi (disambiguation).
Chumbi Valley
Dromo, Tromo, Jumo
Chumbi Valley, 1938.
Floor elevation
3,000 m (9,800 ft)
Long-axis direction
north-south
Naming
Native name
གྲོ་མོ(Standard Tibetan)
Geography
Location
North Eastern Region, India
Population centers
Phari, Yatung
Rivers
Amo Chhu
Chumbi Valley
Chinese
春丕河谷
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Chūnpī Hégǔ
The Chumbi Valley, called Dromo or Tromo in Tibetan,[2][3]
is a valley in the Himalayas that projects southwards from the Tibetan plateau, intervening between Sikkim and Bhutan.[4] It is coextensive with the administrative unit Yadong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.[2] The Chumbi Valley is connected to Sikkim to the southwest via the mountain passes of Nathu La and Jelep La.
The valley is at an altitude of 3,000 m (9,800 ft), and being on the south side of the Himalayas, enjoys a wetter and more temperate climate than most of Tibet. The valley supports some vegetation in the form of the Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests and transitions to the Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows in the north. The plant Pedicularis chumbica (春丕马先蒿) is named after the valley.
The 1904 Younghusband Expedition of British India passed through the Chumbi Vally on its way to Lhasa. At the end of the expedition, the British took control of the Chumbi Valley in lieu of a war indemnity. China agreed to pay the indemnity owed by the Tibetans in three installments and the Chumbi Valley was transferred back to Tibet on 8 February 1908.[2][5]
^"Brahmaputra River System". Government of Assam, Water Resources.
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^"Sikkim impasse: What is the India-China-Bhutan border standoff?". 5 July 2017.
^Great Britain. Foreign Office, East India (Tibet) (1904), p. 143.
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