Gyantse

Gyantse
རྒྱལ་རྩེ · 江孜镇
Gyangzê
View of Old Gyantse and Palcho Monastery from Gyantse Dzong
View of Old Gyantse and Palcho Monastery from Gyantse Dzong
Gyantse is located in Tibet
Gyantse
Gyantse
Location in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates (Gyantse town government): 28°54′53″N 89°36′16″E / 28.9148°N 89.6045°E / 28.9148; 89.6045
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceTibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level cityShigatse
CountyGyantse
Population
 (2010)
 • Total
11,039
Time zoneUTC+8 (CST)

Gyantse, officially Gyangzê Town (also spelled Gyangtse; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ, Wylie: rgyal rtse, ZYPY: Gyangzê; simplified Chinese: 江孜镇; traditional Chinese: 江孜鎮; pinyin: Jiāngzī Zhèn), is a town located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in the Tibet region (after Lhasa, and Shigatse), but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities.[1]

  1. ^ Dorje (1999), p. 254.