Sa'gya County
萨迦县 • ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།
County
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.

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

Administration divisions

Sa'gya County is divided into 2 towns and 9 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Sa'gya Town 萨迦镇 Sàjiā zhèn ས་སྐྱ་གྲོང་རྡལ། sa skya grong rdal
Gêding Town 吉定镇 Jídìng zhèn དགེ་སྡིངས་གྲོང་རྡལ། dge sdings grong rdal
Townships
Xungmai Township 雄麦乡 Xióngmài xiāng གཞུང་སྨད་ཤང་། gzhung smad shang
Maja Township 麻布加乡 Mábùjiā xiāng རྨ་བྱ་ཤང་། rma bya shang
Zhungma Township 雄玛乡 Xióngmǎ xiāng གཞོང་མ་ཤང་། gzhong ma shang
Tashigang Township 扎西岗乡 Zhāxīgǎng xiāng བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ཤང་། bkra shis sgang shang
Chagjug Township 扯休乡 Chěxiū xiāng བྲག་མཇུག་ཤང་། brag mjug shang
Së Township 赛乡 Sài xiāng སྲད་ཤང་། srad shang
Lalho Township 拉洛乡 Lāluò xiāng ལ་ལྷོ་ཤང་། la lho shang
Drag'rong Township 查荣乡 Cháróng xiāng བྲག་རོང་ཤང་། brag rong shang
Molha Township 木拉乡 Mùlā xiāng མོ་ལྷ་ཤང་། mo lha shang

References

  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.
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