Lhatse County

Lhazê County 拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། Lhatse
County
Old Lhatse Monastery
Location of Lhatse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and Tibet
Lhatse Location of the seat in Tibet
Coordinates: 29°11′15″N 88°05′34″E / 29.18750°N 88.09278°E / 29.18750; 88.09278Coordinates: 29°11′15″N 88°05′34″E / 29.18750°N 88.09278°E / 29.18750; 88.09278
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Xigazê
Seat	Lhatse
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Lhatse County (also rendered as Liza County) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region. It was established in 1959, with Lhatse Town as the county seat. In 1968, Quxia Town became the county seat.^[1]

Lhatse County, has a population of some 50,000 and is about 200 kilometers from Mount Everest (or Chomolungma). It is among the most impoverished counties in China.^[2]

Geography[]

Map including Lhatse County area (ATC, 1971)

• Yarlung Zangbo River

Towns and townships[]

• Lhazê Town (ལྷ་རྩེ་, 拉孜镇)
• Quxar Town (ཆུ་ཤར་, 曲下镇)
• (བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་, 扎西宗乡)
• (ཆོས་མ་, 曲玛乡)
• Püncogling Township (ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་, 彭措林乡)
• (བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་, 扎西岗乡)
• (སླེའུ་, 柳乡)
• (རེ་ས་, 热萨乡)
• (མང་ཕུ་, 芒普乡)
• (གཞིས་ཆེན་, 锡钦乡)
• (གྲའུ་, 查务乡)
• 482 natural villages ^[1]

Transport[]

The county is a juncture of China National Highway 219 (G219) which goes to Kashgar and China National Highway 318 (G318) which ends at the border with Nepal. To the west along the G318, a road splits off and runs to the Mount Everest base camp.

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