Litang county occupies the high Puborgang range, which forms a watershed between the Dri chu འབྲི་ཆུ་ (Yangtze) around Batang and the lower Nyag chu ཉག་ཆུ་ (Yalong) basin. The town of Litang, characterized by its large stone houses, lies near the source of the Li chu tributary of the Nyag chu ཉག་ཆུ་ (Yalong), and is one of the highest settlements in East Tibet at 4.014 m. Area: 14.619 sq km.
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