Nyalam Town
Nyalam (Chinese: 聂拉木; Tibetan: གཉའ་ལམ[1]) is a small town in and the county seat of Nyalam County in the Shigatse Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, near the Nepal border.Once a town of stone buildings and tin roofs, Nyalam was known as Tsongdu[2] (Tibetan: ཚོང་འདུས[1]) and was part of the historical Tsang Province of Tibet before the annexation by China.Today Nyalam is a fast-growing little town made of concrete buildings located on the Friendship Highway between Lhasa and the Nepal border.South of Nyalam the road drops abruptly through the gorge of the Matsang Tsangpo (a.k.a.Poiqu, Bhotekoshi River), which is the upper section or main tributary of Sun Kosi in Nepal.