Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་, ZYPY: Xigazê; simplified Chinese: 日喀则; traditional Chinese: 日喀則; pinyin: Rìkāzé; other spellings: Shikatse, Zhigatsey) is a county-level city and the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), People's Republic of China, with a population of 92000, about 250 km (160 mi) southwest of Lhasa and 90 km (56 mi) northwest of Gyantse. It is the administrative centre of the modern Shigatse Prefecture, a region of the TAR.
The city is located at an altitude of 3,840 metres (12,600 ft) at the confluence of the Yarlung Tsangpo (aka Brahmaputra) river and the Nyang River (Nyang Chu or Nyanchue) in west Tibet and was the ancient capital of Ü-Tsang province. It is also the name of the surrounding county.
Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་, ZYPY: Xigazê; simplified Chinese: 日喀则; traditional Chinese: 日喀則; pinyin: Rìkāzé; other spellings: Shikatse, Zhigatsey) is a county-level city and the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), People's Republic of China, with a population of 92000, about 250 km (160 mi) southwest of Lhasa and 90 km (56 mi) northwest of Gyantse. It is the administrative centre of the modern Shigatse Prefecture, a region of the TAR.
The city is located at an altitude of 3,840 metres (12,600 ft) at the confluence of the Yarlung Tsangpo (aka Brahmaputra) river and the Nyang River (Nyang Chu or Nyanchue) in west Tibet and was the ancient capital of Ü-Tsang province. It is also the name of the surrounding county.