Sa'gya County

Sa'gya County
萨迦县ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།
Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County
Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County
Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Sa'gya is located in Tibet
Sa'gya
Sa'gya
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Sa'gya is located in China
Sa'gya
Sa'gya
Sa'gya (China)
Coordinates (Sa'gya County government): 28°53′59″N 88°01′18″E / 28.8997°N 88.0217°E / 28.8997; 88.0217
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatSa'gya
Area
 • Total5,748.81 km2 (2,219.63 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total48,766
 • Density8.5/km2 (22/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.sj.gov.cn
Sa'gya County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese萨迦县
Traditional Chinese薩迦縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།

Sa'gya County (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 萨迦县) is a county under the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]

The county is named after Sakya Monastery, home of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.[3]

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 中国藏式建筑艺术. 附中英文对照目录 (in Chinese). 四川人民出版社. 1998. p. 39. ISBN 978-7-220-04185-3. Retrieved 2024-03-07.

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