Sa'gya County

Sa'gya County 萨迦县 • ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།
County
Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County
Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Sa'gya Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Show map of Tibet Sa'gya Sa'gya (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Sa'gya County government): 28°53′59″N 88°01′18″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Xigazê
County seat	Sa'gya
Area
• Total	5,748.81 km^2 (2,219.63 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	48,766
• Density	8.5/km^2 (22/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.sj.gov.cn

Sa'gya County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	萨迦县
Traditional Chinese	薩迦縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sàjiā Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie sa skya rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Sa'gya Zong

Sa'gya County (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 萨迦县) is a county under the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.^[2]

The county is named after Sakya Monastery, home of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.^[3]

Administration divisions

Sa'gya County is divided into 2 towns and 9 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Sa'gya Town	萨迦镇	Sàjiā zhèn	ས་སྐྱ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sa skya grong rdal
Gêding Town	吉定镇	Jídìng zhèn	དགེ་སྡིངས་གྲོང་རྡལ།	dge sdings grong rdal
Townships
Xungmai Township	雄麦乡	Xióngmài xiāng	གཞུང་སྨད་ཤང་།	gzhung smad shang
Maja Township	麻布加乡	Mábùjiā xiāng	རྨ་བྱ་ཤང་།	rma bya shang
Zhungma Township	雄玛乡	Xióngmǎ xiāng	གཞོང་མ་ཤང་།	gzhong ma shang
Tashigang Township	扎西岗乡	Zhāxīgǎng xiāng	བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ཤང་།	bkra shis sgang shang
Chagjug Township	扯休乡	Chěxiū xiāng	བྲག་མཇུག་ཤང་།	brag mjug shang
Së Township	赛乡	Sài xiāng	སྲད་ཤང་།	srad shang
Lalho Township	拉洛乡	Lāluò xiāng	ལ་ལྷོ་ཤང་།	la lho shang
Drag'rong Township	查荣乡	Cháróng xiāng	བྲག་རོང་ཤང་།	brag rong shang
Molha Township	木拉乡	Mùlā xiāng	མོ་ལྷ་ཤང་།	mo lha shang

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. Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
3. 中国藏式建筑艺术. 附中英文对照目录 (in Chinese). 四川人民出版社. 1998. p. 39. ISBN 978-7-220-04185-3. Retrieved 2024-03-07.