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5 unusual facts about Mustang District


Burang County

The territory was subsequently dominated in turns by the neighbouring kingdoms Guge and Mustang.

Mustang District

Upper Mustang, the former Lo Kingdom comprises the northern two-thirds of the district.

In addition to trekking routes through the Lo Kingdom ("Upper Mustang") and along the Annapurna Circuit in lower Mustang, the district is famous for the springs and village of Muktinath (a popular Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage site), apples, and Marpha brandy.

Pyramidula kuznetsovi

This species is known only from four closely grouped locations in the valley of the Kali Gandaki River between Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountains, Mustang District of Nepal.

Zhongba County

Zhongba County has the TAR's southern border with most of western Nepal's Karnali and Dhaulagiri Zones with a border crossing into Mustang District leading through the former Lo Kingdom to its historic capital Lo Manthang.


Chumig Gyatsa

It is the local name for the pilgrimage site Muktinath, a sacred place both for Hindus as well as the Buddhists, located at an altitude of 3,710 meters, at the foot of the Thorung La mountain pass (part of the Himalayas), Mustang district, Nepal.

Sambha gompa

Kamtsang Dargye Choekhorling Monastery, known locally as Sambha (Samba, Sampa) gompa (goenpa), is situated in Mustang district, Tukuche Village development committee (VDC), in the Western Development Region, Nepal.


see also

Thak

homeland of Thakali people in the southern third of Nepal's Mustang District