Chumbi Valley
- November 7, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Chumbi Valley
Subject – Geography
Context – ‘China strengthening connectivity in Chumbi’
Concept –
- Chumbi Valley is also called Dromo, Tromo or Chomo.
- It is a valley in the Himalayas that projects southwards from the Tibetan plateau, intervening between Sikkim and Bhutan.
- It is coextensive with the administrative unit Yadong County in the Tibet region of China.
- The Chumbi Valley is connected to Sikkim to the southwest via the mountain passes of Nathu La and Jelep La.
- The valley is at an altitude of 3,000 m (9,800 ft), and being on the south side of the Himalayas, enjoys a wetter and more temperate climate than most of Tibet.
- The valley supports some vegetation in the form of the Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests and transitions to the Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows in the north.
- The plant Pedicularis chumbica is named after the valley.
- Chumbi Valley is a 100-km protrusion of Chinese territory located between Bhutan in the east and Sikkim in the west.
History –
- The 1904 Younghusband Expedition of British India passed through the Chumbi Vally on its way to Lhasa.
- At the end of the expedition, the British took control of the Chumbi Valley in lieu of a war indemnity.
- China agreed to pay the indemnity owed by the Tibetans in three installments and the Chumbi Valley was transferred back to Tibet on 8 February 1908.