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Shigatse
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Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê () or Rikaze (), 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 , corresponds to the historical Ü-Tsang region of Tibet, and is most notable for containing the Chinese half of Mount Everest.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Shigatse
- Settlement.other_name
- Xigazê
- Settlement.nickname
- Gateway to Everest
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Shigatse Dzong, Tibet.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Samtse Dzongbuk, Shigatse
- Settlement.image_map
- Shigatse map.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Shigatse within Tibet
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tibet
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County-level divisions
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.seat
- Samzhubzê District
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 182000
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 798153
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 日喀则专区
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Contains
- Kamba County
- Population
- 798153
- Area
- 179902.6
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Capital of
- Rinpungpa
- Highest point
- Mount Everest
- Official website
- www.rkzw.cn
- Image
- Shigatse Dzong, Tibet.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0892
- Licence plate code
- 藏D
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- Commons category
- Shigatse Prefecture
- topic's main category
- Category:Shigatse
- postal code
- 857000
- native label
- 日喀则
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- Population
- Ethnicity
- Transport
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- Counties
- Climate
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê () or Rikaze (), 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 , corresponds to the historical Ü-Tsang region of Tibet, and is most notable for containing the Chinese half of Mount Everest.
==Overview== The administrative center of the prefecture-level city is the Samzhubzê District. It is roughly equivalent to the historical Shigatse urban center, the second-largest city in Tibet, located about southwest of Lhasa and home to the Tashilhunpo Monastery, traditionally the seat of the Panchen Lama.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shigatse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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