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Shigatse
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Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê, or Rikaze (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་, Wylie: gzhis ka rtse, ZYPY: xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé),[1][2] is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of 182,000 km2 (70,271 sq mi), corresponds to the historical Ü-Tsang region of Tibet.
Quick Facts Xigazê གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། · 日喀则市, Country ...
Xigazê
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། · 日喀则市 Shigatse | |
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![]() Samtse Dzongbuk, Shigatse | |
Nickname: Gateway to Everest | |
![]() Location of Shigatse within China | |
Coordinates: 29°16′01″N 88°52′52″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
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Municipal seat | Samzhubzê District |
Area | |
• Total | 182,000 km2 (70,000 sq mi) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 798,153 |
• Density | 4.4/km2 (11/sq mi) |
GDP | |
• Total | CN¥ 16.7 billion US$ 2.7 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 22,469 US$ 3,608 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
ISO 3166 code | CN-XZ-02 |
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Simplified Chinese | 日喀则 | ||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 日喀則 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Rìkāzé | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tibetan | གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ | ||||||||||||||||||
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