Shigatse
Shigatse
日喀则市 གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། Xigazê | |
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Samtse Dzongbuk, Shigatse | |
| Nickname: Gateway to Everest | |
Location of Shigatse within Tibet | |
| Coordinates: 29°16′01″N 88°52′52″E / 29.267°N 88.881°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
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| Municipal seat | Samzhubzê District |
| Area | |
• Total | 182,000 km2 (70,000 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 798,153 |
| • Density | 4.4/km2 (11/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | CN¥ 16.7 billion US$ 2.7 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 22,469 US$ 3,608 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-XZ-02 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 日喀则 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 日喀則 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Rìkāzé | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Tibetan | གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ | ||||||||||||||||||
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Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་, Wylie: gzhis ka rtse, ZYPY: xigazê) or Rikaze (Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of 182,000 km2 (70,271 sq mi), corresponds to the historical Ü-Tsang region of Tibet.