Gonggar County
Gonggar County
贡嘎县 • གོང་དཀར་རྫོང་། Gongkar, Konggar | |
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Location of Gonggar County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R. | |
| Coordinates (Gonggar government): 29°17′20″N 90°59′02″E / 29.289°N 90.984°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shannan (Lhoka) |
| County seat | Gyixung |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,283 km2 (881 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 53,701 |
| • Density | 24/km2 (61/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 贡嘎县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 貢嘎縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | གོང་དཀར་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Gonggar County, also Gongkar (Tibetan: གོང་དཀར་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 贡嘎县), is a county of Shannan in the southeastern part of Tibet Autonomous Region, China, it's one of the 12 counties of the prefecture. It has under its jurisdiction five towns, four townships, and contains notable landmarks such as the Gonggar Choide Monastery, the Zhug Dêqên Qoikor Monastery, Gangdoi Town, the Gonggar Dzong at Xoi, the Lhasa Gonggar Airport at Gyazhugling, the Tubdain Ramai Monastery and the county seat of Gyixung.