Local time
Tue, 6:42 PM GMT+8Asia/ChongqingCity
Lhasa
29.65° N, 91.10° E
- Population
- 219,599
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 258 of 366
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 366 cities of China in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of China, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 633
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Area
- 29,634 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Asia/Chongqing
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for Lhasa, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Lhasa have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Connections
Sister cities
- Elista
- and 1 more