Lhasa
Lhasa (Tibetan: [ལྷ་ས།] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help); Chinese: 拉萨) is a city in Tibet. It is one of the highest cities in the world. It has many Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang and Norbulingka.
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城关区 • ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས།  Chengguan | |
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| 城关区 • ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས | |
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.png) Chengguan District (pink) within Lhasa (yellow) | |
| Coordinates: 29°39′N 91°07′E / 29.650°N 91.117°ECoordinates: 29°39′N 91°07′E / 29.650°N 91.117°E | |
| Country |  China |
| Region | Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Prefecture-level city | Lhasa |
| Government | |
| • Type | District (China) |
| • Mayor (of prefecture-level city) | Zhang Tingqing |
| • Deputy mayor (of prefecture-level city) | Jigme Namgyal |
| Area | |
| • District | 525 km2 (203 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 77.88 km2 (30.07 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,656 m (11,995 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • District | 279,074 |
| • Density | 531.6/km2 (1,377/sq mi) |
| • Major Ethnic groups | Tibetan; Han; Hui |
| • Languages | Tibetan Mandarin Jin language (Hohhot dialect) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 850000 |
| Website | www |
Lhasa Media
Songsten Gampo of Tibet
Lhasa's (western gate)- the Tibetans called this chorten, Pargo Kaling pictured here at the time of the 1904 British expedition to Tibet.
- For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
On 26 October 1951, the advance troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army marched into Lhasa with red flags in their hands.
Lhasa from the Pabonka Monastery. The Potala Palace rises above the old city.
Map including Lhasa (DMA, 1973)
View from Potala Palace
An elderly Tibetan woman holding a prayer wheel on the street in Chengguan District, Lhasa
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References
- ↑ "Lhasa City Master Plan". gov.cn. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
