Sangri County

Sangri County
桑日县 • ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Sangri County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Location of Sangri County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Sangri is located in Tibet
Sangri
Sangri
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Sangri is located in China
Sangri
Sangri
Sangri (China)
Coordinates (Sangri County government): 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E / 29.2594°N 92.0177°E / 29.2594; 92.0177
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShannan (Lhokha)
County seatSangri
Area
 • Total
2,632.18 km2 (1,016.29 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
18,041
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.sangri.gov.cn
Sangri County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese桑日县
Traditional Chinese桑日縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSāngrì Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliezangs ri rdzong
Tibetan PinyinSangri Zong

Sangri County (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 桑日县) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]

It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[3][4]

Administrative divisions

Sangri County contains 1 town and 3 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Sangri Town 桑日镇 Sāngrì zhèn ཟངས་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། zangs ri grong rdal
Townships
Zingqi Township 增期乡 Zēngqī xiāng རྫིང་ཕྱི་ཤང་། rdzing phyi shang
Bötö Township 白堆乡 Báiduī xiāng འབོད་ཐོས་ཤང་། 'bod thos shang
Rong Township 绒乡 Róng xiāng རོང་ཤང་། rong shang

References

  1. ^ "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.
  2. ^ "zangs ri rdzong". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  3. ^ "'ol dga' chos lung". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  4. ^ "Wolkha Cholung". The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
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