Lhazê County
拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།
Lhatse, Liza
County
Old Lhatse Monastery
Old Lhatse Monastery
Location of Lhatse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and Tibet
Location of Lhatse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and Tibet
Lhatse is located in Tibet
Lhatse
Lhatse
Location of the seat in Tibet
Lhatse is located in China
Lhatse
Lhatse
Lhatse (China)
Coordinates: 29°11′15″N 88°05′34″E / 29.18750°N 88.09278°E / 29.18750; 88.09278
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatQuxar
Area
 • Total4,488.7 km2 (1,733.1 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total56,355
 • Density13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.lazi.gov.cn
Lhatse County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese拉孜县
Traditional Chinese拉孜縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།

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

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Lhatse, Lhatse County – Lhatse Trip". China Travel Blogs – Tour-Beijing.com. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  3. ^ "Move to hospital deliveries saves mothers, infants in Tibet". Xinhua Writers Bai Xu and Hu Xing. 25 Feb. 2009
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  7. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
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