- Chengguan District, Lhasa
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Chengguan District
城关区
ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས— District — Coordinates: 29°39′11″N 91°08′19″E / 29.65306°N 91.13861°ECoordinates: 29°39′11″N 91°08′19″E / 29.65306°N 91.13861°E Country People's Republic of China Autonomous region Tibet Autonomous Region Prefecture-level city Lhasa Area - Total 525 km2 (202.7 sq mi) Population (2003 est.) - Total 140,000 - Density 266.7/km2 (690.7/sq mi) Time zone China Standard Time (UTC+8) Website http://www.lasachengguan.gov.cn/ Chengguan District, Lhasa Chinese name Simplified Chinese 城关区 Traditional Chinese 城關區 Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Chéngguān qū Wu - Romanization zen平kuae平 chiu平 Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping sing4gwaan1 keoi1 Tibetan name Tibetan ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས Transcriptions - Wylie khrin kon chus - Zangwen Pinyin Chingoinqü Chengguan District (Chinese: 城关区; Tibetan script: ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས) is the main district of Lhasa, with a total area of 525 square kilometres (203 sq mi) and a 2003 population of 150000. Its name literally means "city pass district", referring to the city's location nestled between two mountain ridges.
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Categories:- Lhasa
- Lhasa Prefecture
- Populated places in Tibet
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