Editing Lhasa (section)

== Geography ==
[[File:Lhasa, Tibet.jpg|thumb|Lhasa sits in a flat river valley]]
[[File:Lhasa from the Pabonka Monastery.JPG|thumb|Lhasa from the Pabonka Monastery. The [[Potala Palace]] rises above the old city.]]
[[File:Map of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region in 1973 detail, from- NH-46-9 Lasa Tibet (cropped).jpg|thumb|Map including Lhasa ([[Defense Mapping Agency|DMA]], 1973)]]

Lhasa has an elevation of about {{cvt|3600|m|ft|sigfig=3}}<ref>''National Geographic Atlas of China''. (2008), p. 88. National Geographic, Washington D.C. {{ISBN|978-1-4262-0136-3}}.</ref> and lies in the centre of the [[Tibetan Plateau]] with the surrounding mountains rising to {{cvt|5500|m|ft|sigfig=3}}. The air only contains 68&nbsp;percent of the oxygen compared to sea level.<ref name="Dorje 1999, p. 68">Dorje (1999), p. 68.</ref> The [[Lhasa River]], also Kyi River or Kyi Chu, a tributary of the [[Yarlung Zangbo River]] (Brahmaputra River), runs through the southern part of the city. This river, known to local Tibetans as the "merry blue waves", flows through the snow-covered peaks and gullies of the [[Nyainqêntanglha]] mountains, extending {{cvt|315|km|mi}}, and emptying into the Yarlung Zangbo River at [[Qüxü County|Qüxü]], forms an area of great scenic beauty. The marshlands, mostly uninhabited, are to the north.<ref name="Barnett">{{cite book |last=Barnett |first=Robert |title=Lhasa: streets with memories |url=https://archive.org/details/lhasastreetswith0000barn |url-access=registration |year=2006 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=0-231-13680-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lhasastreetswith0000barn/page/42 42]}}</ref> Ingress and egress roads run east and west, while to the north, the road infrastructure is less developed.<ref name="Barnett"/>

===Administration===
[[File:Chengguan District sketch map png.png|thumb|left|The built-up area (pink) within the Chengguan District (yellow)]]
Chengguan District is located on the middle reaches of the [[Lhasa River]], a tributary of the [[Brahmaputra River]], with land that rises to the north and south of the river. It is {{convert|28|km}} from east to west and {{convert|31|km}} from north to south. Chengguan District is bordered by [[Doilungdêqên District]] to the west, [[Dagzê County]] to the east and [[Lhünzhub County]] to the north. [[Gonggar County]] of Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture lies to the south.<ref name="[[Social Sciences Literature Press]] 2015 p. 109">{{cite book | title=拉萨史话 | publisher=[[Social Sciences Literature Press]] | series=中国史话. 社会系列 | year=2015 | isbn=978-7-5097-6290-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7h4EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 | language=zh | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=109}}</ref><ref name="[[Social Sciences Literature Press]]西藏园林植物生态效益及研究方法 2014 p. 48">{{cite book | title=西藏园林植物生态环境效益定量研究 | publisher=[[Social Sciences Literature Press]]西藏园林植物生态效益及研究方法 | year=2014 | isbn=978-7-5097-6302-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7l4EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 | language=zh | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=48}}</ref>

Chengguan District has an elevation of {{convert|3650|m}} and covers {{convert|525|km2}}. The urban built-up area covers {{convert|60|km2}}.The average annual temperature of {{convert|8|°C}}. Annual precipitation is about {{convert|300|mm}} to {{convert|500|mm}}, mostly falling between July and September.<ref name="[[Social Sciences Literature Press]]西藏园林植物生态效益及研究方法 2014 p. 50">{{cite book | title=西藏园林植物生态环境效益定量研究 | publisher=[[Social Sciences Literature Press]]西藏园林植物生态效益及研究方法 | year=2014 | isbn=978-7-5097-6302-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7l4EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50 | language=zh | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=50}}</ref>

[[File:View from Potala Palace.jpg|thumb|View of Lhasa in 2017]]
The term "Chengguan District" is the administrative term for the inner urban area or the urban centre within a prefecture, in this case the Prefectural-city of Lhasa. Outside of the urban area much of Chengguan District is mainly mountainous with a near nonexistent rural population.
Chengguan District is at the same administrative level as a county.{{sfn|Subramanya|2004|p=486}}
Chengguan District of Lhasa was established on 23 April 1961.
It currently has 12 fully urban subdistricts.<ref name=subdivsion>{{cite web |script-title=zh:2013年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：城关区 |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2013/54/01/540102.html |website=stats.gov.cn |publisher=National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China |access-date=6 April 2015}}</ref>

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! Name
! [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]]
! [[Tibetan Pinyin]]
! [[Chinese language|Chinese]]
! [[Pinyin]]
! Population (2010)<ref>{{cite book |author1=Census Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China |author2=Population and Employment Statistics Division of the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China=Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state |script-title=zh:中国2010人口普查分乡、镇、街道资料 |date=2012 |publisher=China Statistics Print |location=Beijing |isbn=978-7-5037-6660-2 |edition=1}}</ref>
|-
|[[Pargor Subdistrict]]|| {{Bo-textonly|བར་སྒོར་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Pargor Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|八廓街道}}|| ''Bākuò Jiēdào'' || 92,107
|-
|[[Gyirai Subdistrict]]|| {{Bo-textonly|སྐྱིད་རས་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Gyirai Tromzhung||{{lang|zh-hans|吉日街道}}|| ''Jírì Jiēdào'' ||21,022
|-
|[[Jêbumgang Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|རྗེ་འབུམ་སྒང་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Jêbumgang Tromzhung||{{lang|zh-hans|吉崩岗街道}}|| ''Jíbēnggǎng Jiēdào'' ||29,984
|-
|[[Chabxi Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|གྲ་བཞི་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Chabxi Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|扎细街道}}|| ''Zāxì Jiēdào'' ||30,820
|-
|[[Gündêling Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|ཀུན་བདེ་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Gündêling Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|公德林街道}}|| ''Gōngdélín Jiēdào'' ||55,404
|-
|[[Garmagoinsar Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|ཀརྨ་མ་ཀུན་བཟང་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Garmagoinsar Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|嘎玛贡桑街道}}|| ''Gámǎgòngsāng Jiēdào'' ||19,472
|-
|[[Liangdao Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|གླིང་ཕྲན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Lingchain Nyi'gyi Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|两岛街道}}|| ''Liǎngdǎo Jiēdào'' ||14,055
|-
|[[Jinzhu West Road Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|བཅིངས་འགྲོལ་ནུབ་ལམ་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Jingzhoi Nublam Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|金珠西路街道}}|| ''Jīnzhū Xīlù Jiēdào'' || <small>established in 2013</small>
|-
|[[Ngaqên Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|སྣ་ཆེན་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Ngaqên Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|纳金街道}} || ''Nàjīn Jiēdào'' || 29,575
|-
|[[Togdê Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|དོག་སྡེ་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Togdê Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|夺底街道}}|| ''Duóde Jiēdào''|| 15,186
|-
|[[Caigungtang Subdistrict]]||{{Bo-textonly|ཚལ་གུང་ཐང་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Caigungtang Tromzhung||{{lang|zh-hans|蔡公堂街道}}|| ''Càigōngtáng Jiēdào'' || 8,800
|-
|[[Nyangrain Subdistrict]] ||{{Bo-textonly|ཉང་བྲན་ཁྲོམ་གཞུང་།}} || Nyangrain Tromzhung|| {{lang|zh-hans|娘热街道}}|| ''Niángrè Jiēdào'' || 26,354
|}