Sangri County
County in Tibet, China
Sangri County 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E / 29.2594°N 92.0177°E / 29.2594; 92.0177 | |
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Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Shannan (Lhokha) |
County seat | Sangri |
Area | |
• Total | 2,632.18 km2 (1,016.29 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 18,041 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 桑日县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 桑日縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Sangri County (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 桑日县) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]
It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[3][4]
Administrative divisions
Sangri County contains 1 town and 3 townships.
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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Town | ||||
Sangri Town | 桑日镇 | Sāngrì zhèn | ཟངས་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | zangs ri grong rdal |
Townships | ||||
Zingqi Township | 增期乡 | Zēngqī xiāng | རྫིང་ཕྱི་ཤང་། | rdzing phyi shang |
Bötö Township | 白堆乡 | Báiduī xiāng | འབོད་ཐོས་ཤང་། | 'bod thos shang |
Rong Township | 绒乡 | Róng xiāng | རོང་ཤང་། | rong shang |
References
- ^ "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.
- ^ "zangs ri rdzong". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "'ol dga' chos lung". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "Wolkha Cholung". The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
External links
- Sangri County Annals
- Olka Choling Monastery
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Lhasa (capital)
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Qamdo | |
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Shannan | |
Nagqu |
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** Southern portions of these counties are claimed by the People's Republic of China as part of the South Tibet area, but are administered by India.
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