Shigatse

Also known as Rikaze, Xigaze, Shigatse City, Shigatse Prefecture, Shigatse Special Prefecture, Xigazê, Shigatzé

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

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==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.