Sa'gya County

Sa'gya County (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: sa skya rdzong, ZYPY: Sa'gya Zong; simplified Chinese: 萨迦县; traditional Chinese: 薩迦縣; pinyin: Sàjiā Xiàn) is a county under the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Sa'gya County
萨迦县ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།
Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County
Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County
Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Sa'gya is located in Tibet
Sa'gya
Sa'gya
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Coordinates (Sa'gya County government): 28°53′59″N 88°01′18″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

The county is named after Sakya Monastery, home of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Towns and townships

  • Sa'gya Town (ས་སྐྱ་, 萨迦镇)
  • Gêding Town (དགེ་སྡེངས་, 吉定镇)
  • Xungmai Township (གཞུང་སྨད་, 雄麦乡)
  • Maja Township (རྨ་བྱ་, 麻布加乡)
  • Zhungma Township (གཞོང་མ་, 雄玛乡)
  • Tashigang Township (བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་, 扎西岗乡)
  • Chagjug Township (བྲག་མཇུག་, 扯休乡)
  • Së Township (སྲད་, 赛乡)
  • Lalho Township (ལ་ལྷོ་, 拉洛乡)
  • Drag'rong Township (བྲག་རོང་, 查荣乡)
  • Molha Township (མོ་ལྷ་, 木拉乡)


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