Gar County

Gar County
Gar County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	噶尔县
Traditional Chinese	噶爾縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gá'ěr Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྒར་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	sgar rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Gar Zong

Gar County

噶尔县 • སྒར་རྫོང་།
Senge Tsangpo, Gaer
Gar County 噶尔县 • སྒར་རྫོང་། Senge Tsangpo, Gaer
County
	PLA emblem on the hill near Shiquanhe
	Location of Gar County within Tibet Autonomous Region
	Gar Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Gar Gar (Tibet) Gar Gar (China)
	Coordinates (Gar County government): 32°29′32″N 80°05′48″E / 32.4921°N 80.0966°E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari
County seat	Sênggêkanbab (Shiquanhe, Gar)
Area
• Total	17,669.72 km2 (6,822.32 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	31,052
• Density	1.8/km2 (4.6/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	ge.al.gov.cn

Gar County^[a] (Tibetan: སྒར་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 噶尔县), formerly Senge Tsangpo County,^[3] is a district (county) in the Ngari Prefecture^[4] of the western Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The main town is Shiquanhe (Sênggêkanbab), also called "Gar", on account of being the county seat, and "Ali", on account of being the seat of Ngari Prefecture.^[5]^[b]

^ "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of Ngari Prefecture. 2021-06-10. Archived from the original on 2022-06-11. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
^ China's National Population in the 2000 Census. Publishing House of Minority Nationalities. 2003. ISBN 978-7-105-05425-1.
^ Dorje, Gyurme (1999), Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.), Bath: Footprint Handbooks, p. 355, ISBN 0-8442-2190-2 – via archive.org
^ "Scenery of Burang County in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet". Xinhua News Agency. 2020-12-08.
^ Buckley, M. (2012). Tibet. Bradt Guides. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 334. ISBN 978-1-84162-382-5.

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[1] "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of Ngari Prefecture. 2021-06-10. Archived from the original on 2022-06-11. Retrieved 2023-08-19.

[2] China's National Population in the 2000 Census. Publishing House of Minority Nationalities. 2003. ISBN 978-7-105-05425-1.

[4] Dorje, Gyurme (1999), Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.), Bath: Footprint Handbooks, p. 355, ISBN 0-8442-2190-2 – via archive.org

[5] "Scenery of Burang County in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet". Xinhua News Agency. 2020-12-08.

[6] Buckley, M. (2012). Tibet. Bradt Guides. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 334. ISBN 978-1-84162-382-5.

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