Chumbi Valley

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Overview[]

It is a Tibetan mountain valley that is set between Sikkim, Bhutan and the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Names[]

The Chumbi, (Chinese: 春丕河谷; pinyin: Chūnpī Hégǔ, Tibetan: ་གྲོ་མོ, Wylie: gro mo, THL: tromo, ZYPY: chomo), Dromo, Tromo or Chomo Valley. It literally means Southern.

Geography[]

The major settlements are Phari and Shasima. The River Amo Chhu runs though it. The mountain passes of Nathu La and Jelep La connect the south west to Sikkim. The valley is at an altitude of 3,000 m (9,800 ft).

Climate[]

Because it is on the south side of the Himalayas, enjoys a wetter and more temperate climate than most of Tibet.

History[]

The local Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan tribes first fell under Tibetan rule in the 13th century and then Sikkimese rule in 1642. It's early origins were similar to that of the The Doklam Pass and Doklam Plateau.

Sikkim was persistently raided by Bhutan in the 18th century and Bhutan regularly occupied the Haa Valley, Darjeeling, the Chumbi Valley and Kalimpong.

Tibet eventually sought the help of China, resulting in the Sino-Nepalese War of 1792. Tibet fell under periodic Chinese influence and in turn this proved to be a decisive entry of China into the Himalayan politics.

The 1904 British Younghusband Expedition of British India passed through the Chumbi Valley on its way to Lhasa. At the end of the expedition, the British took control of the Chumbi Valley as reparations of war.

China payed up in to the British in 3 instalments on Tibet's behalf and the Chumbi Valley was transferred back to Tibet on 8 February 1908.

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The Dalai Lama refused any Chinese title in 1911 and declared himself ruler of an independent Tibet, but China crushed and annexed Tibet in 1950.

Later it was

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Also see[]

Bhutan's national boundaries and thire related territorial disputes