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Shigatse

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Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (Nepali: सिगात्से), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, with an area of. [1]

54 relations: Airbus A319, Autonomous regions of China, Ü-Tsang, Bainang County, China, China National Highway 219, China National Highway 318, Cho Oyu, Dinggyê County, Gamba County, Gross domestic product, Gyantse, Gyantse County, Gyirong County, Humid continental climate, ISO 3166-2:CN, Jangdam, Kangmar County, Köppen climate classification, Lhasa, Lhasa–Xigazê railway, Lhatse County, List of ethnic groups in China and Taiwan, List of postal codes in China, Mount Everest, Namling County, Nepali language, Ngamring County, Nyalam County, Nyalam Town, Panchen Lama, Prefecture-level city, Qinghai–Tibet railway, Rinbung County, Sa'gya County, Saga County, Sakya Monastery, Samzhubzê District, Shigatse Peace Airport, Shigatse Photovoltaic Power Plant, SinoMaps Press, Standard Tibetan, Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region, Time in China, Tingri (town), Tingri County, Vehicle registration plates of China, Wylie transliteration, ..., Xaitongmoin County, Xigazê railway station, Yadong County, Zhongba County. Expand index (4 more) »

Airbus A319

The Airbus A319 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin-engine jet airliners manufactured by Airbus.

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Autonomous regions of China

An autonomous region (AR) is a first-level administrative division of China.

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Ü-Tsang

Ü-Tsang or Tsang-Ü, is one of the three traditional provinces of Tibet, the other two being Amdo and Kham.

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Bainang County

Bainang County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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China National Highway 219

China National Highway 219 (G219) runs along the southwestern border of the People's Republic of China, from Yecheng (Karghilik) in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to Lhatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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China National Highway 318

China National Highway 318 (G318) runs from Shanghai to Zhangmu on the China-Nepal border.

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Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु) is the sixth highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Dinggyê County

Dinggyê County or Dinjie County or Tingche County or Tingkye County (Standard Tibetan: གཏིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།) is a county of the Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, bordering Nepal's Sankhuwasabha and Taplejung Districts to the south and India's Sikkim state to the southeast.

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Gamba County

Gamba County (Chinese: 岗巴县; Pinyin: Gǎngbā Xiàn) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, bordering India's Sikkim state to the south.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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Gyantse

Gyantse Town officially, Gyangzê Town (also spelled Gyangtse) is a town located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Gyantse County

Gyantse County officially Gyangzê County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Gyirong County

sKyid-grong (Gyirong, Kyirong) is a former district (rDzong) in the south-west of Tibet and is from 1960 onwards a county of the newly established Xigazê of the newly established Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate (Köppen prefix D and a third letter of a or b) is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, which is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters.

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ISO 3166-2:CN

ISO 3166-2:CN is the entry for China in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Jangdam

Jangdam is a village and township of Samzhubzê District (Shigatse City), in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Kangmar County

Kangmar County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, bordering India's Sikkim state to the south.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Lhasa

Lhasa is a city and administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

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Lhasa–Xigazê railway

The Lhasa–Xigazê railway, or La'ri railway (lha gzhis lcags lam ལྷ་གཞིས་ལྕགས་ལམ་), is a high-elevation railway that connects Lhasa to Xigazê, in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Lhatse County

Lhatse County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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List of ethnic groups in China and Taiwan

Multiple ethnic groups populate China, where "China" is taken to mean areas controlled by either of the two states using "China" in their formal names, the People's Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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List of postal codes in China

Postal codes in the People's Republic of China are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Namling County

Namling County is a county of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Nepali language

Nepali known by endonym Khas-kura (खस कुरा) is an Indo-Aryan language of the sub-branch of Eastern Pahari.

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Ngamring County

Ngamring County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Nyalam County

Nyalam County (Tibetan: gnya' lam rdzong) is a county in Tibet's Shigatse Prefecture.

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Nyalam Town

Nyalam (Pinyin: Nièlāmù) is a small Tibetan town near the Nepal border.

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Panchen Lama

The Panchen Lama is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Prefecture-level city

A prefectural-level municipality, prefectural-level city or prefectural city; formerly known as province-controlled city from 1949 to 1983, is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.

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Qinghai–Tibet railway

The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway (མཚོ་བོད་ལྕགས་ལམ།, mtsho bod lcags lam), is a high-elevation railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Rinbung County

Rinbung County (Chinese: 仁布县; Pinyin: Rénbù Xiàn) is a county at the northeastern boundary of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Sa'gya County

Sa'gya County (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་, Chinese: 萨迦县; Pinyin: Sàjiā Xiàn) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Saga County

Saga County (Tibetan: ས་དགའ་, Chinese: 萨嘎县; Pinyin: Sàgā Xiàn) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Sakya Monastery

Sakya Monastery, also known as Pel Sakya ("White Earth" or "Pale Earth") is a Buddhist monastery situated 25 km southeast of a bridge which is about 127 km west of Shigatse on the road to Tingri in Tibet.

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Samzhubzê District

Samzhubzê District (also spelled Sangzhuzi District, Samdruptse District) is a district in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the China, and the administrative center of the prefecture-level city of Shigatse (Tibetan Pinyin: Xigazê).

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Shigatse Peace Airport

Shigatse Peace Airport, Shigatse Heping Airport, or Shigatse Air Base, is a dual-use military and civilian airport serving Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Shigatse Photovoltaic Power Plant

The Shigatse Photovoltaic Power Plant(), is located 3 km northwest of Shigatse, the second largest city in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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SinoMaps Press

SinoMaps Press, previously known as China Cartographic Publishing House, is a publisher in Beijing, China, specializing in professional map publishing.

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Standard Tibetan

Standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages.

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Tashi Lhunpo Monastery

Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, is a historic and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Time in China

The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), despite China spanning five geographical time zones.

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Tingri (town)

Gangga (or Tingri according to name of region) (Tibetan: སྒང་དགའ་, Wylie: sgang dga', Chinese: 岗嘎镇; Pinyin: gǎnggā zhèn) is a town in southern Tibet.

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Tingri County

Tingri County or Dhringgri County, is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Vehicle registration plates of China

Vehicle registration plates in China are mandatory metal or plastic plates attached to motor vehicles in mainland China for official identification purposes.

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Wylie transliteration

The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English language typewriter.

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Xaitongmoin County

Xaitongmoin County or Zhetongmön (Tibetan: བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་ (bzhad mthong smon rdzong), Chinese: 谢通门县; Pinyin: Xiètōngmén Xiàn) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Xigazê railway station

Xigazê railway station is a railway station in Xigazê, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Yadong County

D˚romo County or Chomo or Yadong County is a frontier county and trade-market of Tibet Autonomous Region, China, situated in the mouth of the Chumbi valley near the China-India and China-Bhutan border.

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Zhongba County

Zhongba County is a county of Xigazê Prefecture in China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Gzhis ka rtse, Gzhis-ka-rtse, Gzhis-ka-rtse sa khul, Gzis-ka-rtse, Rikaze, Rikaze Prefecture, Rikaze, Tibet, Shigatse City, Shigatse Prefecture, Shigatse, Tibet, Xigatse, Xigaze, Xigaze County, Xigaze Prefecture, Xigazê, Xigazê City, Xigazê County, Xigazê Prefecture, Xigazê, Prefecture-level municipality, Xigazê, Tibet, Zhigatse, 日喀则, 日喀则地区, 日喀则市, 日喀則, 日喀則地區, 日喀則市.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigatse

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