Sa’gya County
Sa'gya County 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.Photo: Antoinetav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 8,500 residents
- Description: county in the Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
- Also known as: “ko=싸자현”, “Sa-chia Hsien”, “Sa’gya”, “Sa’gya Xian”, “Sajia”, “Sajia County”, and “sajia xian”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sakya.
Sakya
Photo: Moszczynski, Public domain.
Sakya Monastery, also known as Pel Sakya, is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town, Sa'gya County, about 127 kilometres west of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The monastery is considered the seat of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Sa’gya County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.9024° or 28° 54′ 9″ northLongitude
88.0191° or 88° 1′ 9″ eastPopulation
8,500Elevation
5,487 metres (18,002 feet)Open location code
7MWCW229+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 244081705OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1280108Wikidata ID
Q1364635
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Satellite Map
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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: “Sa’gya Koān”
- Chinese: “Sàjiā Xiàn”
- Chinese: “萨迦”
- Chinese: “萨迦县”
- Chinese: “薩迦”
- Chinese: “薩迦縣”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Sa’gya”
- Dutch: “Arrondissement Sakya”
- Dutch: “Sa’gya Xian”
- Dutch: “Sa’gya Xián”
- Dutch: “Sajia Xian”
- Dutch: “Sàjiā Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Sakya (arrondissement)”
- Dutch: “Sakya Dzong”
- Dutch: “Sakya Xian”
- Dutch: “Sakya Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Sakya”
- French: “Comte de Sa’gya”
- French: “Comté de sa’gya”
- French: “Sa’gya”
- French: “Sajia”
- French: “xian de Sa’gya”
- French: “Xian de Sa’gya”
- Gan Chinese: “萨迦县”
- German: “Kreis Sa’gya”
- German: “Sa’gya”
- German: “Sagya”
- German: “Sàjiā Xiàn”
- German: “Sajia”
- German: “Sakya Dzong”
- German: “Sakya”
- Italian: “Contea di Sa’gya”
- Japanese: “サキャ県”
- Japanese: “薩迦県”
- Korean: “싸갸현”
- Korean: “싸자현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sa’gya-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sa’gya”
- Norwegian: “Sa’gya”
- Persian: “شهرستان ساگیا”
- Polish: “Sa’gya”
- Russian: “Сакья”
- Spanish: “Sa’gya”
- Spanish: “Sagya”
- Swedish: “Sakya, Shigatse”
- Swedish: “Sakya”
- Tibetan: “Sa’gya Xian”
- Tibetan: “Sa’gya”
- Tibetan: “ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།”
- Tibetan: “ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་”
- Ukrainian: “Саг’я”
- Urdu: “ساگیا کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Sa’gya”
- Vietnamese: “Sagya”
- Vietnamese: “Tát Già”
- Wu Chinese: “萨迦县”
- Yue Chinese: “薩迦”
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