Biru County
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| Biru County 比如县 • འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་། |
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 Biru County
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| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Nagchu Prefecture |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Biru County (Tibetan འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་, Wylie 'bri ru rdzong) is a small county within the Nagchu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The name means "female yak". Either of two pronunciations can be considered correct in Standard Tibetan: [bìru] ~ [pìru] (conventionally written Biru in English) or [ɖìru] ~ [ʈìru] (conventionally Driru).
At the 2000 PRC census, the county's population was 45,222, of whom:
| Name of group | Number | Percentage |
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| Tibetans | 44,867 | 99.21% |
| Han | 313 | 0.69% |
| Bai | 11 | 0.02% |
| Uyghurs | 9 | 0.02% |
| Others | 22 | 0.05% |
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