Lhazê County 
    拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། Lhatse, Liza  | |
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![]() Old Lhatse Monastery  | |
![]() 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 | 
| 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 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]
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.[3]
Administration divisions
Lhatse County is divided into 2 towns and 9 townships.[4][5]
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Townships | ||||||
| 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) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[6][7] | |||||||||||||
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).jpg.webp)
References
- ↑ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
 - ↑ "Lhatse, Lhatse County – Lhatse Trip". China Travel Blogs – Tour-Beijing.com. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
 - ↑ "Move to hospital deliveries saves mothers, infants in Tibet". Xinhua Writers Bai Xu and Hu Xing. 25 Feb. 2009
 - ↑ 2022年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China.
 - ↑ 汉藏对照工具书__西藏行政地名词典. 西藏藏语语言文字网 (in Chinese).
 - ↑ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
 - ↑ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
 

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