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.[2]
Saga County
萨嘎县 • ས་དགའ་རྫོང་། Saka | |
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_Gesch%C3%A4ftsstrasse_Dieter_Schuh.JPG) Shopping area in Saga | |
.png) Location of Saga County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR | |
  Saga Location of the seat in the Tibet AR  Saga Saga (China) | |
| Coordinates (Saga County government): 29°19′41″N 85°13′59″E / 29.328°N 85.233°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Gya'gya (Saga) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12,418.87 km2 (4,794.95 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 16,220 |
| • Density | 1.3/km2 (3.4/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 萨嘎县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 薩嘎縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ས་དགའ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Dajia Lake and Jiesa Lake lies in the county.
Administration divisions
editSaga 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
editGallery
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Map including part of western Saga County (DMA, 1974)
References
edit- ^ "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.
