Lhasa
Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet autonomous region in China. It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the Himalayas. Inside Norbulingka Summer Palace…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Lhasa Great Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Antoinetav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lhasa Great Mosque, also known as Hebalin Mosque, is a mosque in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Ramoche Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Dieter Schuh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ramoche Temple is a Buddhist monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.
Ani Tsankhung Nunnery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Antoinetav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ani Tsankhung Nunnery is a nunnery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in the city of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Localities in the Area
Pargor Subdistrict
Suburb
The Pargor Subdistrict, traditionally known as the Barkhor, is an area of narrow streets and a public square located around Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, China.
Zhol Village
Neighbourhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
Lhasa
- Type: City with 868,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city and capital of Tibet
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, city-state, human settlement and locality
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.6554° or 29° 39' 19" northLongitude
91.1705° or 91° 10' 14" eastPopulation
868,000Elevation
3,651 metres (11,978 feet)IATA airport code
LXAUnited Nations Location Code
CN LHAOpen Location Code
7MXHM54C+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 31219396OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1280737Wikidata ID
Q5869Lhasa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Lhasa
- Afar: Lxasa
- Afrikaans: Lhasa
- Albanian: Lhasa
- Amharic: ላሳ
- Arabic: Lhasa
- Arabic: لاسا
- Arabic: لهاسا
- Aragonese: Lhasa
- Armenian: Լհասա
- Asturian: Lhasa
- Azerbaijani: Lhasa
- Azerbaijani: Lxasa
- Bashkir: Лхаса
- Basque: Lhasa
- Belarusian: Лхаса
- Bengali: লাসা
- Breton: Lhasa
- Bulgarian: Лхаса
- Burmese: လာဆာ
- Burmese: လာဆာမြို့
- Catalan: Lhasa
- Cebuano: Lhasa
- Cheyenne: Lhasa
- Chinese: Lhasa Chhī
- Chinese: 拉萨
- Chinese: 拉萨市
- Chinese: 拉薩
- Chinese: 拉薩市
- Croatian: Lhasa
- Czech: Lhasa
- Danish: Lhasa
- Dutch: Lhasa
- Dzongkha: ལྷ་ས་
- Eastern Mari: Лхасе
- English: Lasa, Tibet
- English: Lhasa (prefecture)
- English: Lhasa (prefecture-level city)
- English: Lhasa City
- English: Lhasa Tibet
- English: Lhassa
- Esperanto: Lasao
- Estonian: Lhasa
- Finnish: Lhasa
- French: Lhassa
- Galician: Lhasa
- Galician: Lhassa
- Gan Chinese: 拉萨市
- Gan Chinese: 拉薩
- Georgian: ლჰასა
- German: Lhasa
- Greek: Λάσα
- Gujarati: લ્હાસા
- Hakka Chinese: Lhasa-sṳ
- Hausa: Lhasa-sṳ
- Hebrew: להסה
- Hindi: ल्हासा
- Hungarian: Lhásza
- Icelandic: Lasa
- Ido: Lhasa
- Indonesian: Lhasa
- Interlingue: Lhasa
- Irish: Lása
- Italian: Lhasa
- Japanese: ラサ
- Japanese: ラサ市
- Kalmyk: Лхаса балһсн
- Kannada: ಲಾಸ
- Kannada: ಲ್ಹಾಸಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Lxasa
- Kazakh: Лхаса
- Kikuyu: Lhasa
- Kinyarwanda: Lhasa
- Kirghiz: Лхаса шаары
- Korean: 라사
- Korean: 라싸 시
- Korean: 라싸시
- Korean: 라하사
- Kurdish: Lhasa
- Latin: Lhasa
- Latvian: Lasa
- Latvian: Lhasa
- Literary Chinese: 拉薩市
- Lithuanian: Lasa
- Lithuanian: Lasos prefektūra
- Lombard: Lhasa
- Macedonian: Ласа
- Maithili: ल्हासा
- Malay: Lhasa
- Malayalam: ലാസ
- Marathi: ल्हासा
- Mazanderani: لهاسا
- Min Dong Chinese: Lá-sák
- Min Dong Chinese: Lă-sák
- Min Nan Chinese: Lhasa-chhī
- Mingrelian: ლჰასა
- Mongolian: Лхас
- Nepali: ल्हासा
- Newari: ल्हासा
- Northern Frisian: Lhasa
- Norwegian: Lhasa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lha-sa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lhasa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lhasa
- Nyanja: Lhasa
- Occitan (post 1500): Lassà
- Occitan (post 1500): Lhasa
- Oriya: ଲାସା
- Ossetian: Лхасæ
- Panjabi: ਲਾਸਾ
- Persian: لهاسا
- Polish: Lhasa
- Portuguese: Lassa
- Portuguese: Lhasa
- Romanian: Lhasa
- Romansh: Lhasa
- Russia Buriat: Һаса
- Russian: Лхаса
- Samogitian: Lasa
- Scots: Lhasa
- Scottish Gaelic: Lhasa
- Serbian: Ласа
- Serbo-Croatian: Lhasa
- Sinhala: ල්හාසා
- Slovak: Lhasa
- Slovenian: Lasa
- Spanish: Lhasa
- Swahili: Lhasa
- Swedish: Lhasa
- Tagalog: Lhasa
- Tajik: Лҳаса
- Talysh: Lhasa
- Tamil: லாசா
- Tatar: Lhasa
- Telugu: లాసా
- Thai: ลาซา
- Thai: ลาซ่า
- Tibetan: Lhasa
- Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Tibetan: ལྷ་ས།
- Turkish: Lhasa, Tibet
- Turkish: Lhasa
- Tuvinian: Лхаса
- Uighur: لاسا شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Лхаса
- Urdu: لہاسا
- Uzbek: Lxasa
- Venetian: Lhasa
- Veps: Lhas
- Vietnamese: Lhasa
- Waray (Philippines): Lhasa
- Welsh: Lhasa
- Western Panjabi: لہاسا
- Wu Chinese: 拉萨市
- Yue Chinese: 拉薩
- Zhuang: Lazsaz
- Zhuang: Lhasa
- La-sa-shih
- Lhasa Shi
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