Saga_County Knowpia

Saga County

萨嘎县 • ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།
Saka
Saga County 萨嘎县 • ས་དགའ་རྫོང་། Saka
County
	Shopping area in Saga
	Location of Saga County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
	Saga Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Saga Saga (China)
	Coordinates (Saga County government): 29°19′41″N 85°13′59″E / 29.328°N 85.233°E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Xigazê
County seat	Gya'gya (Saga)
Area
• Total	12,418.87 km2 (4,794.95 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	16,220
• Density	1.3/km2 (3.4/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.sgx.gov.cn

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]

Dajia Lake and Jiesa Lake lies in the county.

Administration divisions edit

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

^ "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.
^ 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.