Gar County
Gar County
噶尔县 • སྒར་རྫོང་། Senge Tsangpo, Gaer | |
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PLA emblem on the hill near Shiquanhe | |
Location of Gar County within Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates (Gar County government): 32°29′32″N 80°05′48″E / 32.4921°N 80.0966°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County seat | Sênggêkanbab (Shiquanhe, Gar) |
| Area | |
• Total | 17,669.72 km2 (6,822.32 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 31,052 |
| • Density | 1.8/km2 (4.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | ge |
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| Simplified Chinese | 噶尔县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 噶爾縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | སྒར་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Gar County (Tibetan: སྒར་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 噶尔县), formerly Senge Tsangpo County, is a district (county) in the Ngari Prefecture of the western Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The main town is Shiquanhe (Sênggêkanbab), also called "Gar", on account of being the county seat, and "Ali", on account of being the seat of Ngari Prefecture.