Sangri County

Sangri County (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 桑日县) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.^[2]

Sangri County 桑日县 • ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
County
Sangri Location of the seat in the Tibet AR Show map of Tibet Sangri Sangri (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Sangri County government): 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Shannan (Lhokha)
County seat	Sangri
Area
• Total	2,632.18 km2 (1,016.29 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	18,041
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.sangri.gov.cn

Sangri County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	桑日县
Traditional Chinese	桑日縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sāngrì Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie zangs ri rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Sangri Zong

It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.^[3][4]

History

After the democratic reform in 1959, Sangri County was formally established as a part of Shannan Prefecture. Subsequently, Shannan Prefecture was renamed Shannan Region in 1968, and Sangri County was subordinated to Shannan Region.^[5] In 2003, the Tibet Autonomous Region was reorganized into Shannan City, and Sangri County has been subordinated to Shannan City ever since.^[6]

Administrative divisions

Sangri County contains 1 town and 3 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Town
Sangri Town	桑日镇	Sāngrì zhèn	ཟངས་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ།	zangs ri grong rdal
Townships
Zingqi Township	增期乡	Zēngqī xiāng	རྫིང་ཕྱི་ཤང་།	rdzing phyi shang
Bötö Township	白堆乡	Báiduī xiāng	འབོད་ཐོས་ཤང་།	'bod thos shang
Rong Township	绒乡	Róng xiāng	རོང་ཤང་།	rong shang