Shigatse
Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་, Wylie: gzhis ka rtse, ZYPY: xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé), 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 Tsang region of Tibet.
Xigazê
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། · 日喀则市 Shigatse | |
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| Nickname: Gateway to Everest | |
Shigatse City (orange) in Tibet Autonomous Region (light orange) | |
| 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) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-XZ-02 |
| GDP (Nominal) | 2010 |
| - Total | ¥32.3 billion $4.6 billion |
| - Per Capita | ¥49,440 $5,860 |
| - Growth | 8.1% |
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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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