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.
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- Shigatse
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- Xigazê
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- Gateway to Everest
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Samtse Dzongbuk, Shigatse
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- Location of Shigatse within Tibet
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- Country
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- People's Republic of China
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- Autonomous region
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- Tibet
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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.
==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.
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