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Country
  
China

Capital
  
Lhatse

Area
  
4,505 km²

Prefecture-level city
  
Xigazê

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Province
  
Tibet

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Lhatse County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region. It was established in 1959, with Lhatse Town as the county seat. In 1968, Quxia Town became the county seat.

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Map of Lhatse, Xigaze, Tibet, China

Lhatse County, has a population of some 50,000 and is about 200 kilometers from Mount Everest (or Chomolungma). It is among the most impoverished counties in China.

Geography

  • Yarlung Zangbo River

    • Towns and townships

  • Lhazê Town (ལྷ་རྩེ་, 拉孜镇)
  • Quxar Town (ཆུ་ཤར་, 曲下镇)
  • Tashi Dzom Township (བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་, 扎西宗乡)
  • Qoima Township (ཆོས་མ་, 曲玛乡)
  • Püncogling Township (ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་, 彭措林乡)
  • Tashigang Township (བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་, 扎西岗乡)
  • Liu Township (སླེའུ་, 柳乡)
  • Resa Township (རེ་ས་, 热萨乡)
  • Mangpu Township (མང་ཕུ་, 芒普乡)
  • Xiqên Township (གཞིས་ཆེན་, 锡钦乡)
  • Chau Township (གྲའུ་, 查务乡)
  • 482 natural villages

    • Transport

  • China National Highway 219
  • China National Highway 318

    • References

    Lhatse County Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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