Lhari County

Lhari County
嘉黎县ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།
Location of Lhari County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Lhari County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Lhari is located in Tibet
Lhari
Lhari
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Lhari is located in China
Lhari
Lhari
Lhari (China)
Coordinates: 31°05′22″N 92°54′02″E / 31.08944°N 92.90056°E / 31.08944; 92.90056
CountryChina
Autonomous RegionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatArza
Area
 • Total13,068.68 km2 (5,045.85 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total38,797
 • Density3.0/km2 (7.7/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.xzjial.gov.cn
Lhari County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese嘉黎县
Traditional Chinese嘉黎縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiālí Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylielha ri rdzong
Tibetan PinyinLhari Zong

Lhari County (Tibetan: ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 嘉黎县) is a small county within the prefecture-level city of Nagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

The 11th Dalai Lama was born in Lhari County, as were both of the rival candidates for the position of the current Panchen Lama.[2]

  1. ^ "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
  2. ^ Zhong, Zhang (1995-12-29). "Six-Year-Old Becomes The 11th Panchen Lama". China Tibet Information Center. Archived from the original on 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-12.