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
County
Old Lhatse Monastery
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
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
SeatLhatse
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Lhatse County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese拉孜县
Traditional Chinese拉孜縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།

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]

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
  1. "Lhatse, Lhatse County – Lhatse Trip". China Travel Blogs – Tour-Beijing.com. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  2. "Move to hospital deliveries saves mothers, infants in Tibet." Xinhua Writers Bai Xu and Hu Xing. 25 Feb. 2009


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