Sangri County
Sangri County
桑日县 • ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Location of Sangri County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet AR | |
  Sangri Location of the seat in the Tibet AR  Sangri Sangri (China) | |
| Coordinates (Sangri County government): 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E / 29.2594°N 92.0177°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shannan (Lhokha) |
| County seat | Sangri |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,632.18 km2 (1,016.29 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 18,041 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 桑日县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 桑日縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Sangri County (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 桑日县) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]
It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[3][4]
Administrative divisions
Sangri County contains 1 town and 3 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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| Sangri Town | 桑日镇 | Sāngrì zhèn | ཟངས་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | zangs ri grong rdal |
| Townships | ||||
| Zingqi Township | 增期乡 | Zēngqī xiāng | རྫིང་ཕྱི་ཤང་། | rdzing phyi shang |
| Bötö Township | 白堆乡 | Báiduī xiāng | འབོད་ཐོས་ཤང་། | 'bod thos shang |
| Rong Township | 绒乡 | Róng xiāng | རོང་ཤང་། | rong shang |
References
- ^ "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.
- ^ "zangs ri rdzong". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "'ol dga' chos lung". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "Wolkha Cholung". The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
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