Lhasa
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This article is about the inner urban district. For the city, see Lhasa (city). For other uses, see Lhasa (disambiguation).
Lhasa,[lower-alpha 1] officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City,[lower-alpha 2] is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China.[4]
Quick Facts 拉萨市 城关区ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས། · ल्हासाChengguan, Chênggoin, Chengguān, Country ...
Lhasa
拉萨市 城关区 ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས། · ल्हासा Chengguan, Chênggoin, Chengguān | |
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District of Chengguan of the City of Lhasa | |
Coordinates (Tibet government): 29°39′14″N 91°7′3″E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Lhasa |
District seat | Gyirai Subdistrict |
Area | |
• District | 525 km2 (203 sq mi) |
• Urban | 168 km2 (65 sq mi) |
Elevation | 3,656 m (11,995 ft) |
Population (2020) | |
• District | 464,736 |
• Density | 890/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
• Urban (2020)[2] | 464,736 |
• Major Ethnic groups | Tibetan; Han; Hui; Nepali |
• Languages | Tibetan Mandarin |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 850000 |
Area code | 891 |
Website | www |
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Quick Facts Chinese name, Simplified Chinese ...
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 拉萨 | ||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 拉薩 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | (in Tibetan) "Place of the Gods" | ||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 逻些 | ||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 邏些 | ||||||||||||
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Tibetan | ལྷ་ས་ | ||||||||||||
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Quick Facts Chengguan District, Chinese name ...
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Simplified Chinese | 城关区 | ||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 城關區 | ||||||||||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||||||||||
Tibetan | ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས། | ||||||||||||||||
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Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres (11,990 ft), Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. The city has been the religious and administrative capital of Tibet since the mid-17th century. It contains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka Palaces.