Lhatse County
Lhazê County
拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | |
|---|---|
| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| • Tibetan | ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ |
| • Wylie transliteration | lha rtse rdzong |
| • official transcription (PRC) | Lhazê |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| • Simplified | 拉孜县 |
| • Pinyin | Lāzī Xiàn |
 Old Lhatse Monastery | |
.png) Location of Lhatse County within Tibet | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| Capital | Lhatse |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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.[1]
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.[2]
Geography
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 [1]
Transport
References
- ^ a b "Lhatse, Lhatse County – Lhatse Trip". China Travel Blogs – Tour-Beijing.com. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
- ^ "Move to hospital deliveries saves mothers, infants in Tibet." Xinhua Writers Bai Xu and Hu Xing. 25 Feb. 2009
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