Sa’gya County

Sa'gya County is a county under the prefecture-level city of in the , China. The county is named after , home of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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  • Type: City with 8,500 residents
  • Description: county in Shigatse, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Arrondissement Sa’gya”, “Arrondissement Sakya”, “Comte de Sa’gya”, “Comté de sa’gya”, “ko=싸자현”, “Kreis Sa’gya”, “Sa-chia Hsien”, “Sa’gya”, “Sa’gya Xian”, “Sa’gya Xián”, “Sagya”, “Sajia”, “Sajia County”, “sajia xian”, “Sakya (arrondissement)”, “Sakya Dzong”, “Sakya Xian”, “Sakya Xiàn”, “Tát Già”, “ས་སྐྱ”, “ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་”, “萨迦县 ས་སྐྱ།”, and “薩迦県”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Sakya.

Photo: Moszczynski, Public domain.
Monastery, also known as Pel …

Sa’gya County

Latitude
28.9024° or 28° 54′ 9″ north
Longitude
88.0191° or 88° 1′ 9″ east
Population
8,500
Elevation
5,487 metres (18,002 feet)
Open location code
7MWCW229+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081705
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1280108
Wiki­data ID
Q1364635
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Sa’gya County” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սակյա”
  • Cebuano: “Sajia Xian”
  • Chinese: “Sàjiā Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “萨迦”
  • Chinese: “萨迦县”
  • Chinese: “薩迦縣”
  • Dutch: “Sakya”
  • French: “Sa’gya”
  • French: “xian de Sa’gya”
  • French: “Xian de Sa’gya”
  • Gan Chinese: “萨迦县”
  • German: “Sa’gya”
  • Italian: “Contea di Sa’gya”
  • Japanese: “サキャ県”
  • Korean: “싸갸현”
  • Korean: “싸자현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sa’gya Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sa’gya-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sa’gya”
  • Norwegian: “Sa’gya”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ساگیا”
  • Polish: “Sa’gya”
  • Russian: “Сакья”
  • Spanish: “Sa’gya”
  • Swedish: “Sakya, Shigatse”
  • Swedish: “Sakya”
  • Tibetan: “Sa’gya Xian”
  • Tibetan: “Sa’gya”
  • Tibetan: “ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།”
  • Ukrainian: “Саг’я”
  • Urdu: “ساگیا کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa’gya”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨迦县”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩迦”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Zonggo and Sa’gya.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: 萨迦县人民政府 and Zhuomalakang.

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