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་།}}}}}}

|nickname =

|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)

|leader_title =

|leader_name =

|established_title =

|established_date =

|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.

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;" align=center
Name

! Chinese

! Hanyu Pinyin

! Tibetan

! Wylie

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| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Town

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|Gya'gya Town
(Saga)

|{{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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|Changgo Township

|{{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}}

Category:Counties of Shigatse

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