Lhatse County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was established in 1959, with Lhatse Town as the county seat. In 1968, Quxar Town became the county seat.[2][3]
Lhazê County 拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། Lhatse, Liza | |
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 Old Lhatse Monastery | |
.png) Location of Lhatse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and Tibet | |
  Lhatse Location of the seat in Tibet  Lhatse Lhatse (China) | |
| Coordinates: 29°11′15″N 88°05′34″E / 29.18750°N 88.09278°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Quxar |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,488.7 km2 (1,733.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 56,355 |
| • Density | 13/km2 (33/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 拉孜县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 拉孜縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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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.[4]
Administration divisions
Lhatse County is divided into 2 towns and 9 townships.[5][6]
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Towns | ||||||
| Quxar Town | 曲下镇 | Qǔxià zhèn | ཆུ་ཤར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu shar grong rdal | ||
| Lhazê Town | 拉孜镇 | Lāzī zhèn | ལྷ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lha rtse grong rdal | ||
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| Tashi Dzom Township | 扎西宗乡 | Zhāxīzōng xiāng | བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་ཤང་། | bkra shis 'dzoms shang | ||
| Qoima Township | 曲玛乡 | Qǔmǎ xiāng | ཆོས་མ་ཤང་། | chos ma shang | ||
| Püncogling Township | 彭措林乡 | Péngcuòlín xiāng | ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཤང་། | bon tshogs gling shang | ||
| Tashigang Township | 扎西岗乡 | Zhāxīgǎng xiāng | བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ཤང་། | bkra shis sgang shang | ||
| Liu Township | 柳乡 | Liǔ xiāng | སླེའུ་ཤང་། | sle'u shang | ||
| Resa Township | 热萨乡 | Rèsà xiāng | རེ་ས་ཤང་། | re sa shang | ||
| Xiqên Township | 锡钦乡 | Xīqīn xiāng | གཞིས་ཆེན་ཤང་། | gzhis chen shang | ||
| Mangpu Township | 芒普乡 | Mángpǔ xiāng | མང་ཕུ་ཤང་། | mang pu shang | ||
| Chau Township | 查务乡 | Cháwù xiāng | གྲའུ་ཤང་། | gra'u shang | ||
Climate
Lhatse County recorded the highest temperature of 28.9 °C (84.0 °F) in locations above 4,000 meters above sea level.
| Climate data for Lhatse (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) | 18.5 (65.3) | 21.6 (70.9) | 22.7 (72.9) | 27.5 (81.5) | 28.7 (83.7) | 28.9 (84.0) | 27.0 (80.6) | 24.1 (75.4) | 22.1 (71.8) | 20.1 (68.2) | 19.6 (67.3) | 28.9 (84.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) | 7.9 (46.2) | 11.0 (51.8) | 14.6 (58.3) | 19.0 (66.2) | 22.7 (72.9) | 21.1 (70.0) | 19.7 (67.5) | 19.2 (66.6) | 16.0 (60.8) | 11.4 (52.5) | 8.2 (46.8) | 14.8 (58.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.7 (28.9) | 0.4 (32.7) | 3.9 (39.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 11.6 (52.9) | 15.4 (59.7) | 14.6 (58.3) | 13.6 (56.5) | 12.6 (54.7) | 8.5 (47.3) | 3.1 (37.6) | −0.4 (31.3) | 7.4 (45.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −9.8 (14.4) | −7.4 (18.7) | −3.5 (25.7) | 0.4 (32.7) | 4.9 (40.8) | 9.2 (48.6) | 9.6 (49.3) | 8.8 (47.8) | 7.2 (45.0) | 1.6 (34.9) | −5.0 (23.0) | −8.8 (16.2) | 0.6 (33.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.1 (−2.4) | −16.8 (1.8) | −12.7 (9.1) | −8.0 (17.6) | −4.4 (24.1) | 1.0 (33.8) | 2.7 (36.9) | 2.6 (36.7) | 0.5 (32.9) | −7.2 (19.0) | −13.3 (8.1) | −16.9 (1.6) | −19.1 (−2.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.2 (0.01) | 0.2 (0.01) | 0.3 (0.01) | 2.6 (0.10) | 14.7 (0.58) | 49.1 (1.93) | 123.6 (4.87) | 123.0 (4.84) | 38.2 (1.50) | 3.2 (0.13) | 0.2 (0.01) | 0.3 (0.01) | 355.6 (14) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 4.3 | 10.8 | 20.6 | 21.3 | 10.9 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 72.6 |
| Average snowy days | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 7.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 18 | 18 | 20 | 25 | 31 | 41 | 59 | 64 | 53 | 29 | 21 | 18 | 33 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 254.1 | 239.2 | 272.3 | 272.3 | 300.1 | 268.8 | 209.9 | 202.7 | 237.5 | 290.9 | 268.9 | 264.6 | 3,081.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 78 | 75 | 73 | 70 | 71 | 64 | 50 | 50 | 65 | 83 | 85 | 83 | 71 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8] | |||||||||||||
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.
Gallery
Map including Lhatse County area (ATC, 1971)
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