Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé),[2][3] 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 182,000 km² (70,271 sq mi), corresponds to the historical Tsang region of Tibet.

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Xigazê གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། · 日喀则市 Shigatse
Prefecture-level city
Shigatse Dzong
Nickname(s):  Gateway to Everest
Shigatse City (orange) in Tibet Autonomous Region (light orange)
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
County-level divisions	1 district 17 counties
Municipal seat	Samzhubzê District
Area
• Total	182,000 km2 (70,000 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	798,153
• Density	4.4/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-XZ-02
GDP (Nominal)[1]	2010
- Total	¥32.3 billion $4.6 billion
- Per Capita	¥49,440 $5,860
- Growth	8.1%

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 280 km (170 mi) southwest of Lhasa and home to the Tashilhunpo Monastery, traditionally the seat of the Panchen Lama.[4]

Some of the towns in the prefecture are: Gyantse (Gyantse County), Tingri (Tingri County), and Nyalam (Nyalam County).

On 11 July 2014 Shigatse Prefecture was upgraded into a prefecture-level city (the same status as Lhasa).[5]

Transport

Rail

The Lhasa–Xigazê Railway connects Xigazê Railway Station with Lhasa and further connects with Qinghai via Qinghai–Tibet Railway. It takes about 3 hours to travel between Lhasa and Shigatse by train. It is possible to get back to Lhasa within the same day by train.[6]

Air

Shigatse Peace Airport began operations on 30 October 2010 after an Airbus A319 landed safely, making it Tibet's fifth commercial airport. It is located 43 kilometres from Samzhubzê District at Jangdam Township at an elevation of 3,782 metres. The airport will be capable of supporting 230,000 passengers annually by 2020.[7]

Road

China National Highway 318 and China National Highway 219 are the main roads in and out of Shigatse.

Counties

Map
Samzhubzê Namling County Gyantse County Tingri County Sa'gya County Lhatse County Ngamring County Xaitongmoin County Bainang County Rinbung County Kangmar County Dinggyê County Zhongba County Yadong County Gyirong County Nyalam County Saga County Kamba County
Name	Simplified Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Population (2010 Census)	Area (km2)	Density (/km2)
City proper
Samzhubzê District	桑珠孜区	Sāngzhūzī Qū	བསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ་ཆུས།	bsam 'grub rtse chus	120,374	3,654	32.94
Rural
Namling County	南木林县	Nánmùlín Xiàn	རྣམ་གླིང་རྫོང་།	rnam gling rdzong	74,930	8,113	9.23
Gyantse County	江孜县	Jiāngzī Xiàn	རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།	rgyal rtse rdzong	63,503	3,859	16.45
Tingri County	定日县	Dìngrì Xiàn	དིང་རི་རྫོང་།	ding ri rdzong	50,818	13,859	3.66
Sa'gya County	萨迦县	Sàjiā Xiàn	ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།	sa skya rdzong	47,304	7,510	6.29
Lhatse County	拉孜县	Lāzī Xiàn	ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།	lha rtse rdzong	49,286	4,505	10.94
Ngamring County	昂仁县	Ángrén Xiàn	ངམ་རིང་རྫོང་།	ngam ring rdzong	51,472	20,105	2.56
Xaitongmoin County	谢通门县	Xiètōngmén Xiàn	བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།	bzhad mthong smon rdzong	42,280	13,960	3.02
Bainang County	白朗县	Báilǎng Xiàn	པ་སྣམ་རྫོང་།	pa snam rdzong	42,551	2,806	15.16
Rinbung County	仁布县	Rénbù Xiàn	རིན་སྤུངས་རྫོང་།	rin spungs rdzong	27,826	2,123	13.10
Kangmar County	康马县	Kāngmǎ Xiàn	ཁང་དམར་རྫོང་།	khang dmar rdzong	20,522	6,165	3.32
Dinggyê County	定结县	Dìngjié Xiàn	གཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།	gding skyes rdzong	20,319	5,816	3.49
Zhongba County	仲巴县	Zhòngbā Xiàn	འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།	'brong pa rdzong	22,147	43,594	0.50
Yadong County	亚东县	Yàdōng Xiàn	གྲོ་མོ་རྫོང་།	gro mo rdzong	12,920	4,306	3.00
Gyirong County	吉隆县	Jílóng Xiàn	སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་།	skyid grong rdzong	14,972	9,009	1.66
Nyalam County	聂拉木县	Nièlāmù Xiàn	གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་།	gnya' lam rdzong	17,568	7,903	2.22
Saga County	萨嘎县	Sàgā Xiàn	ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།	sa dga' rdzong	14,036	12,411	1.13
Kamba County	岗巴县	Gǎngbā Xiàn	གམ་པ་རྫོང་།	gam pa rdzong	10,464	3,936	2.65

Climate

Shigatse has an elevation-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dwb).

Gallery

• 
  Sakya Monastery
• 
  Mountains in Shigatse Prefecture
• 
  Monastery along the road from Shigatse to Mount Everest
• 
  Cho Oyu from Tingri
• 
  Photo of the Shigatse abbot taken around 1910
• 
  Tibetan Army soldiers circa 1938 on parade. They are equipped with Lee-Enfield rifles.

See also

• Shigatse Photovoltaic Power Plant

References

Further reading

• Shigatse Annals

External links

• Media related to Shigatse Prefecture at Wikimedia Commons
• "Shigatse" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

На других языках

[ru] Шигадзе