Lhatse County (also rendered as Liza County) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region. It was established in 1959, with Lhatse Town as the county seat. In 1968, Quxia Town became the county seat.[1]
Lhazê County
拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། Lhatse | |
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County | |
![]() Old Lhatse Monastery | |
![]() Location of Lhatse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and Tibet | |
![]() ![]() Lhatse Location of the seat in Tibet | |
Coordinates: 29°11′15″N 88°05′34″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
Seat | Lhatse |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Lhatse County | |||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 拉孜县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 拉孜縣 | ||||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||||
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.[2]
Climate data for Lhatse County (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) |
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) |
Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[3] |
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.
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Township-level divisions of Xigazê | |
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Samzhubzê |
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Bainang County |
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Dinggyê County |
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Gyangzê County |
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Gyirong County | |
Kamba County |
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Kangmar County |
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Lhazê County |
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Namling County |
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Ngamring County |
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Nyalam County |
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Rinbung County |
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Saga County |
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Sa'gya County |
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Tingri County |
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Xaitongmoin County |
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Yadong County |
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Zhongba County |
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