Lhasa
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Lhasa
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Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet autonomous region in China. It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the Himalayas.
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Lhasa
- Type: Locality with 474,000 residents
- Description: district in Lhasa, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Chéngguān”, “Chengguan District”, “Chengguan District, Lhasa”, “Downtown District”, “Downtown Lhasa”, “Lasa Chengguanqu”, and “Lhasa District”
- Category: district of China
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lhasa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شينغوان”
- Balinese: “Lhasa”
- Basque: “Chengguan Barrutia”
- Bengali: “লাসা”
- Cebuano: “Chéngguān”
- Cebuano: “Lhasa Chengguanqu”
- Chinese: “Siâⁿ-koan Khu”
- Chinese: “城关区”
- Chinese: “城關區”
- Chinese: “拉萨”
- Chinese: “拉萨城关”
- Chinese: “拉萨城关区”
- Dutch: “Chengguan (Lhasa)”
- Dutch: “Chengguan Qu”
- Dutch: “Chengguan Xian”
- Dutch: “Chengguan Xiàn”
- Dutch: “Chengguan”
- Dutch: “Thrinkon Chu Dzong”
- Dutch: “Thrinkon Chu”
- Dutch: “Thrinkonchu Dzong”
- Dutch: “Thrinkonchu”
- French: “district de Chengguan”
- French: “District de Chengguan”
- Gan Chinese: “城关区”
- German: “Chengguan”
- Goan Konkani: “ल्हासा”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lâ-sat-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “רובע צ’נגגואן”
- Italian: “Chéngguān”
- Italian: “Distretto di Chengguan”
- Japanese: “ラサ市城関区”
- Japanese: “城関区”
- Korean: “청관구”
- Lithuanian: “Lasa”
- Malagasy: “Lhasa”
- Malay: “Daerah Chengguan, Lhasa”
- Malay: “Daerah Chengguan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siâⁿ-koan-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chengguan”
- Norwegian: “Chengguan”
- Persian: “لهاسا”
- Persian: “منطقه شینگوان”
- Portuguese: “Chéngguān”
- Portuguese: “Lhasa”
- Russian: “Чэнгуань”
- Samogitian: “Lasa”
- Sinhala: “ලාසා”
- Slovenian: “distrikt Čengguan”
- Slovenian: “Lasa”
- Spanish: “Chengguan”
- Spanish: “Chéngguān”
- Swedish: “Chengguan, Lhasa”
- Swedish: “Chengguan”
- Tamil: “லாசா மாவட்டம்”
- Tibetan: “Lhasa Chengguanqu”
- Tibetan: “Lhasa”
- Tibetan: “ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས་”
- Tibetan: “ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས།”
- Tibetan: “ལྷ་ས།”
- Urdu: “لہاسا”
- Vietnamese: “Thành Quan, Lhasa”
- Vietnamese: “Thành Quan”
- Welsh: “Ardal Chengguan”
- Wu Chinese: “城关区”
- Yue Chinese: “城關區 (拉薩)”
- “Chéngguān”
- “Lasa”
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