Yarlung Tsangpo

/ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ//- ˈtsɑːŋpəʊ/

proper noun

The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Meanings

proper nounYarlung Tsangbo

alternative Yarlung Zangbo

  1. The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

    A forty-minute drive through the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley took the team from the airport to the city of Lhasa.

    2015, Chris Kuzneski, The Prisoner's Gold, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 232
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    The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.

    1998, George B. Schaller, Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21

    In October, China began operating the giant Zangmu Dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, upsetting India and Bangladesh because the river is an important waterway in their countries.

    2016 June 18, Edward Wong, “China’s Last Wild River Carries Conflicting Environmental Hopes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2016, Asia Pacific

    In November of last year, China’s state-owned media shared plans for a 60-gigawatt mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).[...]The Yarlung Tsangpo is of particular significance, as it represents the body of the goddess Dorje Phagmo, one of the highest incarnations in Tibetan culture.

    2021 February 8, Oliver Lees, “China to build the world’s biggest dam on sacred Tibetan river”, in Al-Jazeera, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2021

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Tibetanཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ
  2. EnglishYarlung Tsangpo

Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 雅魯藏布江 /雅鲁藏布江
  • 雅魯藏布江 /雅鲁藏布江 (Yǎlǔzàngbù Jiāng)river in Tibet
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APA

Yarlung Tsangpo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yarlung%20Tsangpo

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“Yarlung Tsangpo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yarlung%20Tsangpo. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

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