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Shigatse

Xigazê
日喀则市
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Shigatse
Samtse Dzongbuk, Shigatse
Samtse Dzongbuk, Shigatse
Nickname: 
Gateway to Everest
Location of Shigatse within China
Location of Shigatse within China
Coordinates: 29°16′01″N 88°52′52″E / 29.267°N 88.881°E / 29.267; 88.881
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
County-level divisions
  • 1 district
  • 17 counties
Municipal seatSamzhubzê District
Area
 • Total
182,000 km2 (70,000 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
798,153
 • Density4.4/km2 (11/sq mi)
GDP
 • TotalCN¥ 16.7 billion
US$ 2.7 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 22,469
US$ 3,608
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-XZ-02
Shigatse
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese日喀则
Traditional Chinese日喀則
Hanyu PinyinRìkāzé
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRìkāzé
Bopomofoㄖˋ   ㄎㄚ   ㄗㄜˊ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhRyhkatzer
Wade–GilesJih4-kʻa1-tsê2
Tongyong PinyinRìhkazé
Yale RomanizationR̀kādzé
IPA[ɻɻ̩̂.kʰá.tsɤ̌]
Tibetan name
Tibetanགཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་
Transcriptions
Wyliegzhis ka rtse
Tibetan PinyinXigazê
Lhasa IPA/ɕi˩˨.kə˥˥.t͡seˑ/
CITS Shigatse Individual Travel Sign

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.

  1. ^ Powers, John (2016). The Buddha party : how the People's Republic of China works to define and control Tibetan Buddhism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. Appendix B, page 16. ISBN 9780199358182. OCLC 967694121.
  2. ^ 国家测绘局地名研究所 (1997). 中国地名录 [Gazetteer of China]. Beijing: SinoMaps Press. p. 311. ISBN 7-5031-1718-4.

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