Gê'gyai County

County in Tibet, China
Gê'gyai County
31°57′21″N 81°56′53″E / 31.95583°N 81.94806°E / 31.95583; 81.94806
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
County seatGê'gyai
Area
 • Total46,104.28 km2 (17,800.96 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total18,012
 • Density0.39/km2 (1.0/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitegj.al.gov.cn
Gê'gyai County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese革吉县
Traditional Chinese革吉縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGéjí Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanདགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliedge rgyas rdzong
Tibetan PinyinGê'gyai Zong

Gê'gyai County (Tibetan: དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 革吉县) is a county in Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. 'Gê'gyai' is Tibetan for "full beauty".

Administrative divisions

Gê'gyai county is divided into 1 town and 4 townships:

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Gê'gyai Town 革吉镇 Géjí zhèn དགེ་རྒྱས་གྲོང་རྡལ། dge rgyas grong rdal
Townships
Zhungpa Township 雄巴乡 Xióngbā xiāng གཞུང་པ་ཤང་། gzhung pa shang
Yagra Township 亚热乡 Yàrè xiāng ཡག་རྭ་ཤང་། yag rwa shang
Chaco Township
(Yanhu) 		盐湖乡 Yánhú xiāng ཚྭ་མཚོ་ཤང་། tshwa mtsho shang
Wönpo Tamzang Township 文布当桑乡 Wénbùdāngsāng xiāng བོན་པོ་གཏམ་བཟང་ཤང་། bon po gtam bzang shang

Demography

Population of this district was 12,313 inhabitants in 1999.[2]

References

  1. ^ "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of Ngari Prefecture. 2021-06-10.
  2. ^ National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
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