Gê'gyai County

Gê'gyai County (Tibetan: དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 革吉县) is a county in Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. 'Gê'gyai' is Tibetan for "full beauty".

Gê'gyai County 革吉县 • དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Gê'gyai County (red) within Ngari Prefecture (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Gê'gyai Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region Show map of Ngari Gê'gyai Gê'gyai (Tibet) Show map of Tibet Gê'gyai Gê'gyai (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 31°57′21″N 81°56′53″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture	Ngari
County seat	Gê'gyai
Area
• Total	46,104.28 km2 (17,800.96 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	18,012
• Density	0.39/km2 (1.0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	gj.al.gov.cn

Gê'gyai County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	革吉县
Traditional Chinese	革吉縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Géjí Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie dge rgyas rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Gê'gyai Zong

Administrative divisions

Gê'gyai county is divided into 1 town and 4 townships:

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Town
Gê'gyai Town	革吉镇	Géjí zhèn	དགེ་རྒྱས་གྲོང་རྡལ།	dge rgyas grong rdal
Townships
Zhungpa Township	雄巴乡	Xióngbā xiāng	གཞུང་པ་ཤང་།	gzhung pa shang
Yagra Township	亚热乡	Yàrè xiāng	ཡག་རྭ་ཤང་།	yag rwa shang
Chaco Township (Yanhu)	盐湖乡	Yánhú xiāng	ཚྭ་མཚོ་ཤང་།	tshwa mtsho shang
Wönpo Tamzang Township	文布当桑乡	Wénbùdāngsāng xiāng	བོན་པོ་གཏམ་བཟང་ཤང་།	bon po gtam bzang shang

Demography

Population of this district was 12,313 inhabitants in 1999.^[2]

References

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. National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS