Yarlung Zangbo

English

Alternative forms

Yarlung Tsangpo

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.
- 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.

Translations

Yarlung Tsangpo — see Yarlung Tsangpo

References

Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)

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