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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 80,000 residents
- Description: district of China
- Also known as: “Gigatze”, “Hsi-ko-tzü”, “Jih-k’a-tse”, “Jih-k’e-tze”, “Jih-k’o-tse”, “rikaze shi”, “Samzhubzê”, “Samzhubze District”, “Samzhubzê District”, “Samzhubzê, Xigazê”, “Sh’i-ka-tse”, “Shigatse City”, “Shigatze”, “Shigatzé”, “Shikatse County (1959-1986)”, “Siketze”, “Xigazê”, and “Zhikatse”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and Shigatse.
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
Buddhist temple
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet. Founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, it is the traditional monastic seat of the Panchen Lama.
Shigatse
Railway station
Photo: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Shigatse railway station, officially Xigazê, is a railway station in Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It lies in Jiacuoxiong Township, Samzhubzê District. The station officially opened for operations on 16 August 2014.
Shigatsé Mosque
Mosque
Shigatse Mosque, located in Samzhubzê, Xigazê, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, is an Islamic mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chengnan and Chengbei.
Chengnan
Suburb
Chengnan Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Samzhubzê District, Shigatse, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. At the time of the 2010 census, the subdistrict had a population of 50,857 and an area of 90 square kilometres.
Chengbei
Suburb
Chengbei Subdistrict is a subdistrict and the seat of Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. 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.
Shigatse
- Categories: district of China and locality
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.2508° or 29° 15′ 3″ northLongitude
88.8947° or 88° 53′ 41″ eastPopulation
80,000Elevation
3,847 metres (12,621 feet)Open location code
7MXC7V2V+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 5061940598OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1279715Wikidata 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: “Jih-k´a-tse”
- Basque: “Shigatse”
- Catalan: “Shigatse”
- Chinese: “Samzhubzê Khu”
- Chinese: “Sāngzhūzī Qū”
- Chinese: “日喀则”
- Chinese: “日喀则市(1986-2014)”
- Chinese: “日喀则市”
- Chinese: “日喀則”
- Chinese: “日喀則市”
- Chinese: “桑珠孜”
- Chinese: “桑珠孜区”
- Chinese: “桑珠孜區”
- Czech: “Rikaze”
- Czech: “Samdrub-ce”
- Czech: “Shigatse”
- Czech: “Shigatze”
- Czech: “Šigace”
- Czech: “Šigaze”
- Czech: “Šikace”
- Czech: “Xigaze”
- Czech: “Xigazê”
- Czech: “Žigace”
- Dutch: “Samdrubtse”
- Dutch: “Shigatse (stad)”
- Dutch: “Shigatse”
- Finnish: “Samzhubzên kaupunkipiiri”
- French: “District de Samdrubtsé”
- French: “Rigaze”
- French: “Samdrubtsé chü”
- French: “Samdrubtsé”
- French: “Samzhubze qu”
- French: “Samzhubzê qü”
- French: “Samzhubzê”
- French: “Shigatse”
- French: “Shigatsé”
- French: “Shigatzé”
- French: “Xigaze”
- French: “Xigazê”
- Gan Chinese: “桑珠孜区”
- German: “Samdrubtsé chü”
- German: “Samdrubtsé”
- German: “Samzhubzê”
- German: “Shigatse”
- German: “Xigazê”
- Hindi: “शिगात्से”
- Irish: “Shigatse”
- Italian: “Shigatse”
- Japanese: “サムドゥプツェ区”
- Japanese: “シガツェ”
- Japanese: “日喀則”
- Japanese: “日喀則市”
- Korean: “삼주쩨구”
- Korean: “시가쩌 시”
- Korean: “시가체 시”
- Korean: “시가체”
- Korean: “시가츠 시”
- Korean: “쌍주쯔 구”
- Korean: “쌍주쯔구”
- Lithuanian: “Šigaczė”
- Lithuanian: “Šigadzė”
- Lithuanian: “Šigazė”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Samzhubzê-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shigatse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xigazê”
- Norwegian: “Xigazê”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shigatse”
- Persian: “بخش سامژوزه”
- Persian: “منطقه سامژوبزه”
- Polish: “Samzhubzê”
- Polish: “Shigatse”
- Polish: “Szigace”
- Polish: “Xigaze”
- Portuguese: “Shigatse”
- Portuguese: “Xigazê”
- Russian: “Жикацзэ”
- Russian: “Самджубдзе”
- Russian: “Шигадзе”
- Russian: “Шигатзе”
- Russian: “Шигатсе”
- Russian: “Шигаце”
- Russian: “Шигацзе”
- Slovak: “Ž‘-kcha-ce”
- Slovak: “Ž’-kcha-ce”
- Spanish: “Samzhubze”
- Spanish: “Xigaze”
- Spanish: “Xigazê”
- Swedish: “Samdruptse”
- Swedish: “Sangzhuzi”
- Swedish: “Shigatse Prefektur”
- Swedish: “Xigazê”
- Tibetan: “Xigazê”
- Tibetan: “གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་”
- Tibetan: “གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Tibetan: “གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ།”
- Tibetan: “བསམ་གྲུབ་རྩེ་ཁུལ ༼༢༠༡༤-༦-༢༤༽”
- Tibetan: “བསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ་ཆུས།”
- Uighur: “Rékazé shehiri”
- Uighur: “رېكازې شەھىرى”
- Urdu: “سامژوبتسے ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Nhật Khách Tắc”
- Vietnamese: “Samzhubzê”
- Vietnamese: “Shigatse”
- Vietnamese: “Xigaze”
- Wu Chinese: “桑珠孜区”
- Yue Chinese: “桑珠孜”
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