Sangri County
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Sangri County
桑日县 • ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་། | |
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  Sangri Location of the seat in the Tibet AR  Sangri Sangri (China) | |
| Coordinates (Sangri County government): 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E / 29.2594°N 92.0177°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 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 桑日县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 桑日縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Sangri County (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 桑日县) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]
It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[3][4]
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]
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