Lhatse County
Lhazê County
拉孜县 • ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། Lhatse, Liza | |
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Old Lhatse Monastery | |
Location of Lhatse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and Tibet | |
| Coordinates: 29°11′15″N 88°05′34″E / 29.18750°N 88.09278°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Quxar |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,488.7 km2 (1,733.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 56,355 |
| • Density | 13/km2 (33/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 拉孜县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 拉孜縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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Lhatse County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was established in 1959, with Lhatse Town as the county seat. In 1968, Quxar Town became the county seat.
Lhatse County has a population of some 50,000 and is about 200 kilometers from Mount Everest (or Chomolungma). It is among the most impoverished counties in China.