Shigatse Prefecture

Shigatse Prefecture Xigazê / Rikaze Prefecture 日喀则地区 གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ས་ཁུལ་
—  Prefecture  —
prefecture (orange) in Tibet (light-orange)
Country	China
Province	Tibet
County-level divisions
Area
• Total	182.000 km2 (70.271 sq mi)
Population
• Total	703,292
• Density	Bad rounding here3,900/km2 (Bad rounding here10,000/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)

Shigatse Prefecture
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	日喀則地區
Simplified Chinese	日喀则地区
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Rìkāzé Dìqū
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གཞིས་ཀ་ རྩེ་ས་ཁུལ་
Transcriptions - Wylie gzhis-ka-rtse sa khul - Tibetan Pinyin Xigazê

Sakya Monastery

Mountains in Shigatse Prefecture

Monastery along the road from Shigatse to Mount Everest

Cho Oyu from Tingri

Shigatse Prefecture officially, Xigazê Prefecture; is a prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region in China.

The administrative center of the prefecture is the city of Shigatse.

Some of the towns in the prefecture: Tingri (Tingri County), Nyalam (Nyalam County).

The prefecture is roughly located within the historical Tsang Province of the old Tibet.

Counties

Map
#	Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Population (2003 est.)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
1	Shigatse City	日喀则市	Rìkāzé Shì	གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།	gzhis ka rtse grong khyer	90,000	3,654	25
2	Namling County	南木林县	Nánmùlín Xiàn	རྣམ་གླིང་རྫོང་	rnam gling rdzong	70,000	8,113	9
3	Gyantse County	江孜县	Jiāngzī Xiàn	རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་	rgyal rtse rdzong	60,000	3,859	16
4	Tingri County	定日县	Dìngrì Xiàn	དིང་རི་རྫོང་	ding ri rdzong	50,000	13,859	4
5	Sa'gya County	萨迦县	Sàjiā Xiàn	ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་	sa skya rdzong	40,000	7,510	5
6	Lhatse County	拉孜县	Lāzī Xiàn	ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་	lha rtse rdzong	50,000	4,505	11
7	Ngamring County	昂仁县	Ángrén Xiàn	ངམ་རིང་རྫོང་	ngam ring rdzong	50,000	20,105	2
8	Xaitongmoin County	谢通门县	Xiètōngmén Xiàn	བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་	bzhad mthong smon rdzong	40,000	13,960	3
9	Bainang County	白朗县	Báilǎng Xiàn	པ་སྣམ་རྫོང་	pa snam rdzong	40,000	2,806	14
10	Rinbung County	仁布县	Rénbù Xiàn	རིན་སྤུངས་རྫོང་	rin spungs rdzong	30,000	2,123	14
11	Kangmar County	康马县	Kāngmǎ Xiàn	ཁང་དམར་རྫོང་	khang dmar rdzong	20,000	6,165	3
12	Dinggyê County	定结县	Dìngjié Xiàn	གདིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་	gding skyes rdzong	20,000	5,816	3
13	Zhongba County	仲巴县	Zhòngbā Xiàn	འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་	'brong pa rdzong	10,000	43,594	0
14	Yadong County	亚东县	Yàdōng Xiàn	གྲོ་མོ་རྫོང་	gro mo rdzong	10,000	4,306	2
15	Gyirong County	吉隆县	Jílóng Xiàn	སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་	skyid grong rdzong	10,000	9,009	1
16	Nyalam County	聂拉木县	Nièlāmù Xiàn	གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་	gnya' lam rdzong	10,000	7,903	1
17	Saga County	萨嘎县	Sàgā Xiàn	ས་དགའ་རྫོང་	sa dga' rdzong	10,000	12,411	1
18	Gamba County	岗巴县	Gǎngbā Xiàn	གམ་པ་རྫོང་	gam pa rdzong	10,000	3,936	3