Sa'gya County
Sa'gya County
萨迦县 • ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་། | |
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Friendship Highway in Sa'gya County | |
Location of Sa'gya County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR | |
| Coordinates (Sa'gya County government): 28°53′59″N 88°01′18″E / 28.8997°N 88.0217°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shigatse |
| County seat | Sa'gya (Sakya) |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,748.81 km2 (2,219.63 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 48,766 |
| • Density | 8.5/km2 (22/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 萨迦县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 薩迦縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Sa'gya County (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 萨迦县) is a county under the prefecture-level city of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
The county is named after Sakya Monastery, home of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.