Saga County (Tibetan: ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 萨嘎县) is a county of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering Nepal to the west and southwest.[2]

Saga County
萨嘎县ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།
Saka
Shopping area in Saga
Shopping area in Saga
Location of Saga County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Location of Saga County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Saga is located in Tibet
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Saga
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Saga is located in China
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Saga (China)
Coordinates (Saga County government): 29°19′41″N 85°13′59″E / 29.328°N 85.233°E / 29.328; 85.233
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatGya'gya (Saga)
Area
 • Total12,418.87 km2 (4,794.95 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total16,220
 • Density1.3/km2 (3.4/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.sgx.gov.cn
Saga County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese萨嘎县
Traditional Chinese薩嘎縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSàgā Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanས་དགའ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliesa dga' rdzong
Tibetan PinyinSaga Zong

Dajia Lake and Jiesa Lake lies in the county.

Administration divisions

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Saga County is divided into 1 town and 7 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Gya'gya Town
(Saga)
加加镇 Jiājiā zhèn སྐྱ་སྐྱ་གྲོང་རྡལ། skya skya grong rdal
Townships
Changgo Township 昌果乡 Chāngguǒ xiāng འཕྲང་སྒོ་ཤང་། 'phrang sgo shang
Xungru Township 雄如乡 Xióngrú xiāng གཞུང་རུ་ཤང་། gzhung ru shang
Lhagcang Township 拉藏乡 Lāzàng xiāng ལྷག་ཚང་ཤང་། lhag tshang shang
Ru'gyog Township 如角乡 Rújiǎo xiāng རུ་ཀྱོག་ཤང་། ru kyog shang
Targyailing Township 达吉岭乡 Dájílǐng xiāng དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་ཤང་། dar rgyas gling shang
Dênggar Township 旦嘎乡 Dàngā xiāng སྟེང་དཀར་ཤང་། steng dkar shang
Xarru Township 夏如乡 Xiàrú xiāng ཤར་རུ་ཤང་། shar ru shang

Transport

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References

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  1. ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
  2. ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.