Shigatse

Shigatse, officially spelled Xigazê, is the second largest city in the Autonomous Region of . It is 3,800 meters above sea level.
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  • Type: City with 80,000 residents
  • Description: district in Shigatse, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Gigatze”, “Hsi-ko-tzü”, “Jih-k’a-tse”, “Jih-k’e-tze”, “Jih-k’o-tse”, “Jih-k´a-tse”, “Nhật Khách Tắc”, “Rigaze”, “Rikaze”, “rikaze shi”, “Samdrubtse”, “Samdrubtsé”, “Samdrubtsé chü”, “Samzhubzê”, “Samzhubze District”, “Samzhubzê District”, “Samzhubze qu”, “Samzhubzê qü”, “Samzhubzê, Xigazê”, “Sangzhuzi”, “Sh’i-ka-tse”, “Shigatse (stad)”, “Shigatse City”, “Shigatse Prefektur”, “Shigatze”, “Shigatzé”, “Shikatse County (1959-1986)”, “Šigace”, “Šigaczė”, “Šigaze”, “Šigazė”, “Šikace”, “Siketze”, “Szigace”, “Xigaze”, “Xigazê”, “Zhikatse”, “Žigace”, “Жикацзэ”, “Шигатзе”, “Шигатсе”, “Шигаце”, “Шигацзе”, “رېكازې شەھىرى”, “གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་”, “གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་རྫོང”, “གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ།”, “གཞིས་རྩེ་རྫོང”, “བསམ་གྲུབ་རྩེ་ཁུལ ༼༢༠༡༤-༦-༢༤༽”, “བསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ་ཆུས།”, “시가쩌 시”, “시가체”, “시가체 시”, “시가츠 시”, “シガツェ”, “日喀则县”, “日喀则市”, “日喀则市(1986-2014)”, “日喀則”, “日喀則市”, and “桑珠孜区 བསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ།”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and Shigatse.

Buddhist temple
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is an historically and culturally important monastery in , the second-largest city in . Founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, it is the traditional monastic seat of the Panchen Lama.

Railway station
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railway station, officially Xigazê, is a railway station in , , . It lies in Jiacuoxiong Township, Samzhubzê District. The station officially opened for operations on 16 August 2014.

Mosque
The Shigatse Mosque is a located in Samzhubzê, Xigazê, City, in the of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chengnan and Chengbei.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Samzhubzê District, , in the of China. At the time of the 2010 census, the subdistrict had a population of 50,857 and an area of 90 square kilometres.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict and the seat of City, , . At the time of the 2010 census, the subdistrict had a population of 13,110 and an area of 70 square kilometres as of 2010.

Town
Qugboxung is a village and township of the Samzhubzê District, in the of China. At the time of the 2010 census, the township had a population of 5,428 and an area of 310 square kilometres.As of 2013, it had 15 villages under its administration.

Shigatse

Latitude
29.2508° or 29° 15′ 3″ north
Longitude
88.8947° or 88° 53′ 41″ east
Population
80,000
Elevation
3,847 metres (12,621 feet)
IATA airport codes
RKZ and DDR
United Nations Location Codes
CN RKZ and CN XIG
Open location code
7MXC7V2V+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5061940598
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1279715
Wiki­data ID
Q116656
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Shigatse” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սամդրուբցե”
  • Basque: “Shigatse”
  • Catalan: “Shigatse”
  • Chinese: “Sāngzhūzī Qū”
  • Chinese: “日喀则”
  • Chinese: “桑珠孜”
  • Chinese: “桑珠孜区”
  • Chinese: “桑珠孜區”
  • Czech: “Samdrub-ce”
  • Dutch: “Shigatse”
  • Finnish: “Samzhubzên kaupunkipiiri”
  • French: “District de Samdrubtsé”
  • French: “Samzhubzê”
  • French: “Shigatsé”
  • Gan Chinese: “桑珠孜区”
  • German: “Samzhubzê”
  • German: “Xigazê”
  • Hindi: “शिगात्से”
  • Irish: “Shigatse”
  • Italian: “Shigatse”
  • Japanese: “サムドゥプツェ区”
  • Korean: “삼주쩨구”
  • Korean: “쌍주쯔 구”
  • Korean: “쌍주쯔구”
  • Lithuanian: “Šigadzė”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Samzhubzê Khu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Samzhubzê-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xigazê”
  • Norwegian: “Xigazê”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Shigatse”
  • Persian: “بخش سامژوزه”
  • Persian: “منطقه سامژوبزه”
  • Polish: “Samzhubzê”
  • Portuguese: “Shigatse”
  • Russian: “Самджубдзе”
  • Russian: “Шигадзе”
  • Slovak: “Ž‘-kcha-ce”
  • Slovak: “Ž’-kcha-ce”
  • Spanish: “Samzhubze”
  • Swedish: “Samdruptse”
  • Tibetan: “Xigazê”
  • Tibetan: “གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Uighur: “Rékazé shehiri”
  • Urdu: “سامژوبتسے ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Samzhubzê”
  • Wu Chinese: “桑珠孜区”
  • Yue Chinese: “桑珠孜”

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