Lhasa

Lhasa is the capital of the autonomous region in . It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the .
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  • Type: City with 565,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city and capital of Tibet
  • Also known as: “Barantola”, “La-sa-shih”, “Lahsaz”, “Lessa”, “Léssa”, “Lha-sa”, “Lhása”, “Lhasa City”, “Lhasa Prefecture”, “Lhasa Prefecture-Level City”, “Lhasa Shi”, “Lla-Ssa”, “लहासा”, “လာဆာ”, “라하사”, and “拉萨市 ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Potala Palace and Norbulingka.

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is a museum complex in , the capital of the of . It was formerly the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, and from 1649 until 1959 served as the Dalai Lamas' residence.

Park
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is a palace and surrounding park in , built from 1755. It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in 1959.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Hebalin Mosque, is a in , in the of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pargor Subdistrict and Zhol Village.

Suburb
The Barkhor Square, or Barkhor, is an historic area of narrow streets and a public square with markets, and the circumambulation route around the in , , China.

Neighborhood
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, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , . It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Lhasa

Latitude
29.6542° or 29° 39′ 15″ north
Longitude
91.1173° or 91° 7′ 2″ east
Population
565,000
Elevation
3,651 metres (11,978 feet)
IATA airport code
LXA
UN/LOCODE
CN LHA
Open location code
7MXHM438+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31219396
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1280737
Wiki­data ID
Q5869
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Lhasa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Lhasa”
  • Afrikaans: “Lhasa”
  • Albanian: “Lhasa”
  • Amharic: “ላሳ”
  • Arabic: “لاسا”
  • Aragonese: “Lhasa”
  • Armenian: “Լհասա”
  • Asturian: “Lhasa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lhasa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lxasa”
  • Bashkir: “Лхаса”
  • Basque: “Lhasa”
  • Belarusian: “Лхаса”
  • Bengali: “লাসা”
  • Breton: “Lhasa”
  • Bulgarian: “Лхаса”
  • Burmese: “လာဆာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Lhasa”
  • Cebuano: “Lhasa”
  • Cheyenne: “Lhasa”
  • Chinese: “Lāsà Shì”
  • Chinese: “拉萨”
  • Chinese: “拉萨市”
  • Chinese: “拉薩市”
  • Croatian: “Lhasa”
  • Czech: “Lhasa”
  • Danish: “Lhasa”
  • Dutch: “Lhasa”
  • Dzongkha: “ལྷ་ས་”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лхасе”
  • Esperanto: “Lasao”
  • Estonian: “Lhasa”
  • Finnish: “Lhasa”
  • French: “Lhassa”
  • Galician: “Lhasa”
  • Galician: “Lhassa”
  • Gan Chinese: “拉萨市”
  • Gan Chinese: “拉薩”
  • Georgian: “ლჰასა”
  • German: “Lhasa”
  • Greek: “Λάσα”
  • Gujarati: “લ્હાસા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lhasa-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Lhasa”
  • Hebrew: “להסה”
  • Hindi: “ल्हासा”
  • Hungarian: “Lhásza”
  • Icelandic: “Lasa”
  • Ido: “Lasa”
  • Ido: “Lhasa”
  • Indonesian: “Lhasa”
  • Interlingue: “Lhasa”
  • Irish: “Lása”
  • Italian: “Lhasa”
  • Japanese: “ラサ”
  • Japanese: “ラサ市”
  • Javanese: “Lhasa”
  • Kalmyk: “Лхаса балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಸ”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ಹಾಸಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Lxasa”
  • Kazakh: “Лхаса”
  • Kikuyu: “Lhasa”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Lhasa”
  • Kirghiz: “Лхаса шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Лхаса”
  • Korean: “라사”
  • Korean: “라싸 시”
  • Korean: “라싸시”
  • Kurdish: “Lhasa”
  • Latin: “Lhasa”
  • Latvian: “Lhasa”
  • Literary Chinese: “拉薩市”
  • Lithuanian: “Lasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Lasos prefektūra”
  • Lombard: “Lhasa”
  • Macedonian: “Ласа”
  • Magahi: “ल्हासा”
  • Maithili: “ल्हासा”
  • Malay: “Lhasa”
  • Malayalam: “ലാസ”
  • Marathi: “ल्हासा”
  • Mazanderani: “لهاسا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lá-sák”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lă-sák”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lhasa Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lhasa-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ლჰასა”
  • Mongolian: “Лхас”
  • Nepali: “ल्हासा”
  • Newari: “ल्हासा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lhasa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lhasa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lhasa”
  • Norwegian: “Lhasa”
  • Nyanja: “Lhasa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lassà”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lhasa”
  • Oriya: “ଲାସା”
  • Oromo: “Lhasa”
  • Ossetian: “Лхасæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਸਾ”
  • Persian: “لهاسا”
  • Polish: “Lhasa”
  • Portuguese: “Lassa”
  • Portuguese: “Lhasa”
  • Pushto: “لاسا”
  • Romanian: “Lhasa”
  • Romansh: “Lhasa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Һаса”
  • Russian: “Лхаса”
  • Samogitian: “Lasa”
  • Scots: “Lhasa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lhasa”
  • Serbian: “Ласа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lhasa”
  • Sicilian: “Lhasa”
  • Sindhi: “لهاسا (شهر)”
  • Sindhi: “لهاسا”
  • Sinhala: “ල්හාසා”
  • Slovak: “Lhasa”
  • Slovenian: “Lasa”
  • Somali: “Lhasa”
  • Spanish: “Lhasa”
  • Swahili: “Lhasa”
  • Swedish: “Lhasa”
  • Tagalog: “Lhasa”
  • Tajik: “Лхаса”
  • Tajik: “Лҳаса”
  • Talysh: “Lhasa”
  • Tamil: “லாசா”
  • Tatar: “Lhasa”
  • Tatar: “Лхаса”
  • Telugu: “లాసా”
  • Thai: “ลาซา”
  • Thai: “ลาซ่า”
  • Tibetan: “Lhasa”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷ་ས།”
  • Turkish: “Lhasa, Tibet”
  • Turkish: “Lhasa”
  • Tuvinian: “Лхаса”
  • Uighur: “لاسا شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Лхаса”
  • Urdu: “لہاسا”
  • Uzbek: “Lhasa”
  • Uzbek: “Lxasa”
  • Venetian: “Lhasa”
  • Veps: “Lhas”
  • Vietnamese: “Lhasa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lhasa”
  • Welsh: “Lhasa”
  • Western Panjabi: “لہاسا”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉萨市”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉薩”
  • Zhuang: “Lazsaz”

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