Saga County
{{Infobox settlement
|name =Saga County
|official_name =
|other_name =Saka
|native_name ={{lower|0.1em|{{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|萨嘎县}} • {{Bo-textonly|ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།}}}}}}
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|settlement_type =County
|total_type =
|motto =
|image_skyline =Saga (Shigatse Distrikt, Tibet) Geschäftsstrasse Dieter Schuh.JPG
|imagesize =
|image_caption =Shopping area in Saga
|image_map =Location of Saga within Xizang (China).png
|mapsize =
|map_caption =Location of Saga County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
|pushpin_map = Tibet#China
|pushpin_label =Saga
|pushpin_map_caption =Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = China
|subdivision_type1 = Autonomous region
|subdivision_name1 = Tibet
|subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city
|subdivision_name2 = Xigazê
| seat_type = County seat
|seat = Gya'gya (Saga)
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|area_total_km2 = 12,418.87
|elevation_m =
|population_as_of = 2020
|population_footnotes = {{cite web |url =http://tjj.rikaze.gov.cn/news-detail.thtml?cid=144677 |title =日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报 |publisher = Government of Xigazê |language = zh |date = 2021-07-20 }}
|population_note =
|population_total = 16220
|population_density_km2 = auto
|timezone = China Standard
|utc_offset = +8
|coor_pinpoint = Saga County government
|coordinates = {{coord|29.328|N|85.233|E|type:adm3rd_region:CN-54_source:Gaode|format=dms|display=it}}
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|website = {{URL|http://www.sgx.gov.cn/}}
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{{Infobox Chinese
|tib=ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།
|wylie=sa dga' rdzong
|zwpy=Saga Zong
|order=st
|s=萨嘎县
|t=薩嘎縣
|p=Sàgā Xiàn
}}
Saga County ({{bo|t=ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།}}; {{zh|s=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.{{cite book | last=Croddy | first=E. | title=China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey | publisher=Springer International Publishing | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-031-09165-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoidEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA698 | access-date=2024-03-07 | page=698}}
Dajia Lake and Jiesa Lake lies in the county.
Administration divisions
Saga County is divided into 1 town and 7 townships.
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Name
! Chinese ! Tibetan ! Wylie |
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| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Town |
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|Gya'gya Town |{{lang|zh-hans|加加镇}} | {{transl|zh|Jiājiā zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|སྐྱ་སྐྱ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{transl|bo|skya skya grong rdal}} |
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| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Townships |
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|{{lang|zh-hans|昌果乡}} | {{transl|zh|Chāngguǒ xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|འཕྲང་སྒོ་ཤང་།}} |{{transl|bo|'phrang sgo shang}} |
Xungru Township
|{{lang|zh-hans|雄如乡}} | {{transl|zh|Xióngrú xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|གཞུང་རུ་ཤང་།}} |{{transl|bo|gzhung ru shang}} |
Lhagcang Township
|{{lang|zh-hans|拉藏乡}} | {{transl|zh|Lāzàng xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|ལྷག་ཚང་ཤང་།}} |{{transl|bo|lhag tshang shang}} |
Ru'gyog Township
|{{lang|zh-hans|如角乡}} | {{transl|zh|Rújiǎo xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|རུ་ཀྱོག་ཤང་།}} |{{transl|bo|ru kyog shang}} |
Targyailing Township
|{{lang|zh-hans|达吉岭乡}} | {{transl|zh|Dájílǐng xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་ཤང་།}} |{{transl|bo|dar rgyas gling shang}} |
Dênggar Township
|{{lang|zh-hans|旦嘎乡}} | {{transl|zh|Dàngā xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|སྟེང་དཀར་ཤང་།}} |{{transl|bo|steng dkar shang}} |
Xarru Township
|{{lang|zh-hans|夏如乡}} | {{transl|zh|Xiàrú xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|ཤར་རུ་ཤང་།}} |{{transl|bo|shar ru shang}} |
Transport
Gallery
NH-45-9 Sakatsung China.jpg|Map including part of western Saga County (DMA, 1974)
References
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{{County-level divisions of Tibet}}
{{Shigatse Prefecture}}
{{Towns in Xigazê}}
{{Shigatse-geo-stub}}