Zigortang Town
子科滩镇 · ལ་ཟེ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ། Ziketan, Zigongtang | |
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Location within Qinghai | |
Coordinates: 35°35′19″N 99°59′12″E / 35.58861°N 99.98667°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Qinghai |
Prefecture | Hainan |
County | Xinghai |
Established | 1953 |
Area (approximate) | |
• Total | 3,000 km2 (1,158 sq mi) |
Elevation | 3,193 m (10,476 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 10,000 |
• Density | 3.3/km2 (8.6/sq mi) |
Ethnicity | |
• Tibetan | 80% |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard Time) |
Qinghai e-Gov Portal |
Zigortang Town (Tibetan: རྩི་གོར་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ།), Zigongtang Town (རྩི་ཀོང་ཐང་), or Ziketan Town (Chinese: 子科滩镇) is a farming town in Xinghai County of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, People's Republic of China. Zigortang town covers approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and has a population of 10,000.[1]
Zigortang is 167 kilometres (104 mi) southwest of the Qinghai provincial capital of Xining. Zigortang lies approximately 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) west of Beijing.[2]