County in Tibet, China
Saga County
萨嘎县 • ས་དགའ་རྫོང་། Saka | |
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Shopping area in Saga | |
Location of Saga County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR | |
Coordinates (Saga County government): 29°19′41″N 85°13′59″E / 29.328°N 85.233°E / 29.328; 85.233 | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
County seat | Gya'gya (Saga) |
Area | |
• Total | 12,418.87 km (4,794.95 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 16,220 |
• Density | 1.3/km (3.4/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Saga County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 萨嘎县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 薩嘎縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ས་དགའ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Saga County (Tibetan: ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 萨嘎县) is a county of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Nepal——to the "west." And southwest.
Dajia Lake and Jiesa Lake lies in the county.
Administration divisions※
Saga County is divided into 1 town and "7 townships."
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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Town | ||||||
Gya'gya Town (Saga) |
加加镇 | Jiājiā zhèn | སྐྱ་སྐྱ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | skya skya grong rdal | ||
Townships | ||||||
Changgo Township | 昌果乡 | Chāngguǒ xiāng | འཕྲང་སྒོ་ཤང་། | 'phrang sgo shang | ||
Xungru Township | 雄如乡 | Xióngrú xiāng | གཞུང་རུ་ཤང་། | gzhung ru shang | ||
Lhagcang Township | 拉藏乡 | Lāzàng xiāng | ལྷག་ཚང་ཤང་། | lhag tshang shang | ||
Ru'gyog Township | 如角乡 | Rújiǎo xiāng | རུ་ཀྱོག་ཤང་། | ru kyog shang | ||
Targyailing Township | 达吉岭乡 | Dájílǐng xiāng | དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་ཤང་། | dar rgyas gling shang | ||
Dênggar Township | 旦嘎乡 | Dàngā xiāng | སྟེང་དཀར་ཤང་། | steng dkar shang | ||
Xarru Township | 夏如乡 | Xiàrú xiāng | ཤར་རུ་ཤང་། | shar ru shang |
Transport※
Gallery※
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Map including part of western Saga County (DMA, 1974)
References※
- ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
- ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.