Noh,[3]
also called Üchang or Wujang[4]
(
Tibetan: དབུས་བྱང,
Wylie: dbus byang,
THL: wü jang)[5]
is a village in the
Rutog County,
Ngari Prefecture of the
Tibet region of China. It is located on the northern bank of the eastern
Pangong Lake (Tso Ngombo), watered by the Doma River (Tsanger-schar). The village is now part of the
Domar Township.
Noh is described as a temple town by European travellers. It is the only permanently inhabited place on the northern bank of the Pangong Lake.[3] It is frequently referred to in the British records of the Pangong Lake, but the British (and "foreigners" in general) were not generally allowed to visit it.[6][7][8]
Geography
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As of 2009, there are 818 people living in the village.[2]
There is also an army base of a border defence company, which is said to have the hard task of defending a long border. According to the Xizang Government, they get along well with each other.[9]
Historical maps
The Pangong Lake area in a map of Ngari Khorsum by
Henry Strachey, 1851
Noh along a trade route of Ladakh (1873)
Map of the expeditions of
Sven Hedin (1906-8) including Noh (
RGS, early 20th century)
^
abHedin, Central Asia, Vol. IV (1907), pp. 267–268:
"On the left bank of the river, and between it and the big bluff, stands the village of Noh, called also Odschong, the first permanently inhabited place, as it was also the last, that we encountered in Tibet."
^Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet (1854), p. 46: "there are also said to be wide plains open to the [Pangong] lake in the southern horn [of the lake], at Ruduk in the [south], and at No [Noh] on the [north] side, but these formed in whole or part by the mouths of the lateral valleys opening into the immediate basin of the lake."
^Godwin-Austen, Pangong Lake District (1867), pp. 354–355 harvp error: no target: CITEREFGodwin-Austen,_Pangong_Lake_District1867 (
help): "Near the northern shore of this last [lake] is situated the small village of Noh, a short distance up a tributary from the north.... The Champas or Changpas, who spend the winter on the lake at Ote [i.e., the
Khurnak Plain], come from both Noh and Rudok."