Shigatse
Shigatse, officially spelled Xigazê, is the second largest city in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is 3,800 meters above sea level.
- City with about 158,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 3,840 metres (12,590 feet)
- …has the IATA airport codes RKZ and DDR
- 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”“rikaze shi”“SamzhubzꔓSamzhubzê District”“Samzhubzê, XigazꔓSangzhuzi”“Sh’i-ka-tse”“Shigatse City”“Shigatz锓Shikatse County (1959-1986)”“Siketze”“XigazꔓZhikatse”“桑珠孜区 བསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ།”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and Shigatse.
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is an historically and…
Shigatsé Mosque
Mosque
The Shigatse Mosque is a mosque located…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chengnan and Chengbei.
Qugboxung Township
Town
Qugboxung is a village and township of the Samzhubzê…
Shigatse
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Latitude
29.2508° or 29° 15′ 3″ north
Longitude
88.8947° or 88° 53′ 41″ east
OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Shigatse” goes by many names.
ՍամդրուբցեArmenian
Jih-k´a-tseBasque
ShigatseBasque
ShigatseCatalan
Sāngzhūzī QūChinese
日喀则Chinese
日喀则县Chinese
日喀则市Chinese
日喀则市(1986-2014)Chinese
日喀則Chinese
日喀則市Chinese
桑珠孜Chinese
桑珠孜区Chinese
桑珠孜區Chinese
XigazêCroatian
RikazeCzech
Samdrub-ceCzech
ShigatseCzech
ShigatzeCzech
ŠigaceCzech
ŠigazeCzech
ŠikaceCzech
XigazêCzech
ŽigaceCzech
ŽikaceCzech
SamdrubtseDutch
ShigatseDutch
Shigatse (stad)Dutch
Samzhubzên kaupunkipiiriFinnish
桑珠孜区Gan Chinese
शिगात्सेHindi
SigaceHungarian
ShigatseIrish
ShigatseItalian
サムドゥプツェ区Japanese
シガツェJapanese
日喀則Japanese
日喀則市Japanese
삼주쩨구Korean
시가쩌 시Korean
시가체Korean
시가체 시Korean
시가츠 시Korean
시까쩨Korean
쌍주쯔 구Korean
ŠigaczėLithuanian
ŠigadzėLithuanian
ŠigazėLithuanian
Samzhubzê-khuMin Nan Chinese
XigazêNorwegian
ShigatseNorwegian Bokmål
XigazêNorwegian Bokmål
ShigatseOccitan (post 1500)
بخش سامژوزهPersian
منطقه سامژوبزهPersian
SamzhubzêPolish
ShigatsePolish
SzigacePolish
XigazêPolish
ЖикацзэRussian
СамджубдзеRussian
ШигадзеRussian
ШигатзеRussian
ШигатсеRussian
ШигацеRussian
ШигацзеRussian
Ž‘-kcha-ceSlovak
ŠigatseSlovenian
SamdruptseSwedish
SangzhuziSwedish
Shigatse PrefekturSwedish
XigazêSwedish
XigazêTibetan
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་Tibetan
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།Tibetan
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་རྫོངTibetan
གཞིས་རྩེ་རྫོངTibetan
བསམ་གྲུབ་རྩེ་ཁུལ ༼༢༠༡༤-༦-༢༤༽Tibetan
བསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ་ཆུས།Tibetan
Rékazé shehiriUighur
رېكازې شەھىرىUighur
ШіґадзеUkrainian
سامژوبتسے ضلعUrdu
Nhật Khách TắcVietnamese
SamzhubzêVietnamese
ShigatseVietnamese
XigazêVietnamese
桑珠孜区Wu Chinese
桑珠孜Yue Chinese
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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