Tangra Yumco
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Tangra Yumco (Tibetan: དྭངས་རྭ་གཡུ་མཚོ; Wylie: dwangs rwa g.yu mtsho; pinyin: dāng rě yōng cuò) is a salt lake in Tibet, China. It is in the southwest of Nyima County. Tangra Yumco is 835.8 square kilometres (322.7 sq mi), with a drainage area of 8,219.7 square kilometres (3; 173.6 sq mi), an elevation of 4,528 metres (14; 856 ft), length 71.7 kilometres (44.6 mi) and mean width 11.65 kilometres (7.24 mi) (maximum width 19.4 metres [64 ft]). It is the holy lake of the
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