Saga County

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.

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
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
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	萨嘎县
Traditional Chinese	薩嘎縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sàgā Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ས་དགའ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie sa dga' rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Saga Zong

Dajia Lake and Jiesa Lake lies in the county.

Administration divisions

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

Transport

• China National Highway 219

Gallery

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  Map including part of western Saga County (DMA, 1974)