Lhatse County
Lhatse County (also rendered as Liza County) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region. It was established in 1959, with Lhatse Town as the county seat. In 1968, Quxia Town became the county seat.[1]
Lhazê County
拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། Lhatse | |
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 Old Lhatse Monastery | |
.png.webp) Location of Lhatse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and Tibet | |
  Lhatse Location of the seat in Tibet | |
| Coordinates: 29°11′15″N 88°05′34″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| Seat | Lhatse |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| 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, 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.[2]
Geography
Map including Lhatse County area (ATC, 1971)
Towns and townships
- Lhazê Town (ལྷ་རྩེ་, 拉孜镇)
- Quxar Town (ཆུ་ཤར་, 曲下镇)
- Tashi Dzom Township (བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་, 扎西宗乡)
- Qoima Township (ཆོས་མ་, 曲玛乡)
- Püncogling Township (ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་, 彭措林乡)
- Tashigang Township (བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་, 扎西岗乡)
- Liu Township (སླེའུ་, 柳乡)
- Resa Township (རེ་ས་, 热萨乡)
- Mangpu Township (མང་ཕུ་, 芒普乡)
- Xiqên Township (གཞིས་ཆེན་, 锡钦乡)
- Chau Township (གྲའུ་, 查务乡)
- 482 natural villages [1]
Climate
| Climate data for Lhatse (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| 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) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) |
7.5 (45.5) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.4 (57.9) |
18.8 (65.8) |
22.5 (72.5) |
21.0 (69.8) |
19.5 (67.1) |
18.7 (65.7) |
15.8 (60.4) |
10.7 (51.3) |
7.4 (45.3) |
14.5 (58.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.9 (28.6) |
0.0 (32.0) |
3.7 (38.7) |
7.1 (44.8) |
11.3 (52.3) |
15.1 (59.2) |
14.4 (57.9) |
13.3 (55.9) |
12.1 (53.8) |
8.1 (46.6) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
7.0 (44.7) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −10.2 (13.6) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
4.3 (39.7) |
8.8 (47.8) |
9.3 (48.7) |
8.5 (47.3) |
6.6 (43.9) |
1.0 (33.8) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
0.1 (32.2) |
| 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) | 0.1 (0.00) |
0.1 (0.00) |
0.3 (0.01) |
1.4 (0.06) |
12.5 (0.49) |
43.3 (1.70) |
110.4 (4.35) |
118.5 (4.67) |
37.9 (1.49) |
3.3 (0.13) |
0.4 (0.02) |
0.1 (0.00) |
328.3 (12.92) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 19 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 32 | 42 | 59 | 65 | 55 | 31 | 23 | 20 | 34 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[3] | |||||||||||||
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.
References
- "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
- 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
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