Sa'gya County (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 萨迦县) is a county under the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]
Sa'gya County 萨迦县 • ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་། | |
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 Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County | |
.png) Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR | |
  Sa'gya Location of the seat in the Tibet AR  Sa'gya Sa'gya (China) | |
| Coordinates (Sa'gya County government): 28°53′59″N 88°01′18″E / 28.8997°N 88.0217°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Sa'gya |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,748.81 km2 (2,219.63 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 48,766 |
| • Density | 8.5/km2 (22/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 萨迦县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 薩迦縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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The county is named after Sakya Monastery, home of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.[3]
Administration divisions
Sa'gya County is divided into 2 towns and 9 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Sa'gya Town | 萨迦镇 | Sàjiā zhèn | ས་སྐྱ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sa skya grong rdal | ||
| Gêding Town | 吉定镇 | Jídìng zhèn | དགེ་སྡིངས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dge sdings grong rdal | ||
| Townships | ||||||
| Xungmai Township | 雄麦乡 | Xióngmài xiāng | གཞུང་སྨད་ཤང་། | gzhung smad shang | ||
| Maja Township | 麻布加乡 | Mábùjiā xiāng | རྨ་བྱ་ཤང་། | rma bya shang | ||
| Zhungma Township | 雄玛乡 | Xióngmǎ xiāng | གཞོང་མ་ཤང་། | gzhong ma shang | ||
| Tashigang Township | 扎西岗乡 | Zhāxīgǎng xiāng | བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ཤང་། | bkra shis sgang shang | ||
| Chagjug Township | 扯休乡 | Chěxiū xiāng | བྲག་མཇུག་ཤང་། | brag mjug shang | ||
| Së Township | 赛乡 | Sài xiāng | སྲད་ཤང་། | srad shang | ||
| Lalho Township | 拉洛乡 | Lāluò xiāng | ལ་ལྷོ་ཤང་། | la lho shang | ||
| Drag'rong Township | 查荣乡 | Cháróng xiāng | བྲག་རོང་ཤང་། | brag rong shang | ||
| Molha Township | 木拉乡 | Mùlā xiāng | མོ་ལྷ་ཤང་། | mo lha shang | ||