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Sa'gya County
County in Tibet, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Quick Facts 萨迦县 • ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།, Country ...
Sa'gya County
萨迦县 • ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་། | |
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![]() Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County | |
![]() Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR | |
Coordinates (Sa'gya County government): 28°53′59″N 88°01′18″E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
County seat | Sa'gya |
Area | |
• Total | 5,748.81 km2 (2,219.63 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 48,766 |
• Density | 8.5/km2 (22/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
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Simplified Chinese | 萨迦县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 薩迦縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan | ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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The county is named after Sakya Monastery, home of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.[3]