List of administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Autonomous Region, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, has three administrative divisional levels – prefectural, county, and township – as enumerated in the infobox on the right.

Tibet Autonomous Region
Autonomous region
Capital: Lhasa
Prefecture-level divisions
Prefectural cities6
Prefectures1
County level divisions
County cities2
Counties64
Districts8
Township level divisions
Towns140
Townships535
Ethnic townships8
Subdistricts9
Villages level divisions
Communities2,354
Administrative villages11,948

Administrative divisions

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All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China. This chart lists only prefecture-level and county-level divisions of Tibet Autonomous Region.

Prefecture level County Level
English Name
official
Tibetan Wylie transliteration Tibetan pinyin
official transcription
Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Division code[1]
Lhasa city
ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
lha sa grong khyer
Lhasa Chongkyêr
拉萨市
Lāsà Shì
(Capital)
(5401 / LXA)
Chengguan District ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས། khrin kon chus Chênggoin Qü 城关区 Chéngguān Qū 540102 CGN
Doilungdêqên District སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཆུས། stod lung bde chen chus Dölungdêqên Qü 堆龙德庆区 Duīlóngdéqìng Qū 540103 DLD
Dagzê District སྟག་རྩེ་ཆུས། stag rtse chus Dagzê Qü 达孜区 Dázī Qū 540104
Lhünzhub County ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྫོང་། lhun grub rdzong Lhünzhub Zong 林周县 Línzhōu Xiàn 540121 LZB
Damxung County འདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང་། 'dam gzhung rdzong Damxung Zong 当雄县 Dāngxióng Xiàn 540122 DAM
Nyêmo County སྙེ་མོ་རྫོང་། snye mo rdzong Nyêmo Zong 尼木县 Nímù Xiàn 540123 NYE
Qüxü County ཆུ་ཤུར་རྫོང་། chu shur rdzong Qüxü Zong 曲水县 Qūshuǐ Xiàn 540124 QUX
Maizhokunggar County མལ་གྲོ་གུང་དཀར་རྫོང་། mal gro gung dkar rdzong Maizhokunggar Zong 墨竹工卡县 Mòzhúgōngkǎ Xiàn 540127 MAI
Xigazê city
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
ggzhis ka rtse grong khyer
Xigazê Chongkyêr
日喀则市
Rìkāzé Shì
(5402 / XGB)
Samzhubzê District བསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ་ཆུས། bsam 'grub rtse chus Samzhubzê Qü 桑珠孜区 Sāngzhūzī Qū 540202 SAZ
Namling County རྣམ་གླིང་རྫོང་། rnam gling rdzong Namling Zong 南木林县 Nánmùlín Xiàn 540221 NAM
Gyangzê County རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། rgyal rtse rdzong Gyangzê Zong 江孜县 Jiāngzī Xiàn 540222 GYZ
Tingri County དིང་རི་རྫོང་། ding ri rdzong Tingri Zong 定日县 Dìngrì Xiàn 540223 TIN
Sa'gya County ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་། sa skya rdzong Sa'gya Zong 萨迦县 Sàjiā Xiàn 540224 SGX
Lhazê County ལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། lha rtse rdzong Lhazê Zong 拉孜县 Lāzī Xiàn 540225 LAZ
Ngamring County ངམ་རིང་རྫོང་། ngam ring rdzong Ngamring Zong 昂仁县 Ángrén Xiàn 540226 NGA
Xaitongmoin County བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་། bzhad mthong smon rdzong Xaitongmoin Zong 谢通门县 Xiètōngmén Xiàn 540227 XTM
Bainang County པ་སྣམ་རྫོང་། pa snam rdzong Bainang Zong 白朗县 Báilǎng Xiàn 540228 BAI
Rinbung County རིན་སྤུངས་རྫོང་། rin spungs rdzong Rinbung Zong 仁布县 Rénbù Xiàn 540229 RIN
Kangmar County[a] ཁང་དམར་རྫོང་། khang dmar rdzong Kangmar Zong 康马县 Kāngmǎ Xiàn 540230 KAN
Dinggyê County གདིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་། gding skyes rdzong Dinggyê Zong 定结县 Dìngjié Xiàn 540231 DIN
Zhongba County འབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་། 'brong pa rdzong Zhongba Zong 仲巴县 Zhòngbā Xiàn 540232 ZHB
Yadong County[a] གྲོ་མོ་རྫོང་། gro mo rdzong Chomo (Yadong) Zong 亚东县 Yàdōng Xiàn 540233 YDZ
Gyirong County སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་། skyid grong rdzong Gyirong Zong 吉隆县 Jílóng Xiàn 540234 GIR
Nyalam County གཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་། gnya' lam rdzong Nyalam Zong 聂拉木县 Nièlāmù Xiàn 540235 NYA
Saga County ས་དགའ་རྫོང་། sa dga' rdzong Saga Zong 萨嘎县 Sàgā Xiàn 540236 SAG
Kamba County གམ་པ་རྫོང་། gam pa rdzong G=Kamba Zong 岗巴县 Gǎngbā Xiàn 540237 GAM
Qamdo city
ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
chab mdo grong khyer
Qamdo Chongkyêr
昌都市
Chāngdū Shì
(5403 / GDX)
Karuo District མཁར་རོ་ཆུས། mkhar ro chus Karub Qü 卡若区 Kǎruò Qū 540302 KRO
Jomda County འཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་། 'jo mda' rdzong Jomda Zong 江达县 Jiāngdá Xiàn 540321 JOM
Gonjo County གོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་། go 'jo rdzong Gonjo Zong 贡觉县 Gòngjué Xiàn 540322 KON
Riwoqê County རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་། ri bo che rdzong Riwoqê Zong 类乌齐县 Lèiwūqí Xiàn 540323 RIW
Dêngqên County སྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། steng chen rdzong Dêngqên Zong 丁青县 Dīngqīng Xiàn 540324 DEN
Zhag'yab County བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་། brag g-yab rdzong Zhag’yab Zong 察雅县 Cháyǎ Xiàn 540325 CHA
Baxoi County དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་། dpa' shod rdzong Baxoi Zong 八宿县 Bāsù Xiàn 540326 BAX
Zogang County མཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་། mdzo sgang rdzong Zogang Zong 左贡县 Zuǒgòng Xiàn 540327 ZOX
Markam County སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་། smar khams rdzong Markam Zong 芒康县 Mángkāng Xiàn 540328 MAN
Lhorong County ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་། lho rong rdzong Lhorong Zong 洛隆县 Luòlóng Xiàn 540329 LHO
Banbar County དཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་། dpal 'bar rdzong Banbar Zong 边坝县 Biānbà Xiàn 540330 BAN
Nyingchi city
ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
nying khri grong khyer
Nyingchi Chongkyêr
林芝市
Línzhī Shì
(5404 / NYC)
Bayi District བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས། brag yib chus Chagyib Qü 巴宜区 Bāyí Qū 540402 BYA
Gongbo'gyamda County ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་། kong po rgya mda' rdzong Gongbo'gyamda Zong 工布江达县 Gōngbùjiāngdá Xiàn 540421 GOX
Mêdog County[b] མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་། me tog rdzong Mêdog Zong 墨脱县 Mòtuō Xiàn 540423 MET
Bomê County སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་། spo mes rdzong Bomê Zong 波密县 Bōmì Xiàn 540424 BMI
Zayü County[b] རྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་། rdza yul rdzong Zayü Zong 察隅县 Cháyú Xiàn 540425 ZAY
Nangxian County[c] སྣང་རྫོང་། snang rdzong Nang Zong 朗县 Lǎngxiàn 540426 NGX
Mainling city སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། sman gling grong khyer Mainling Chongkyêr 米林市 Mǐlín Shì 540481 MAX
Shannan city
ལྷོ་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
lho kha grong khyer
Lhoka Chongkyêr
山南市
Shānnán Shì
(5405 / SNB)
Nêdong District སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས། sne gdong chus Nêdong Qü 乃东区 Nǎidōng Qū 540502 NDQ
Zhanang County གྲ་ནང་རྫོང་། gra nang rdzong Zhanang Zong 扎囊县 Zhānáng Xiàn 540521 CNG
Gonggar County གོང་དཀར་རྫོང་། gong dkar rdzong Gonggar Zong 贡嘎县 Gònggā Xiàn 540522 GON
Sangri County ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་། zangs ri rdzong Sangri Zong 桑日县 Sāngrì Xiàn 540523 SRI
Qonggyai County འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་། 'phyongs rgyas rdzong Qonggyai Zong 琼结县 Qióngjié Xiàn 540524 QON
Qusum County ཆུ་གསུམ་རྫོང་། chu gsum rdzong Qusum Zong 曲松县 Qūsōng Xiàn 540525 QUS
Comai County མཚོ་སམད་རྫོང་། mtsho smad rdzong Comai Zong 措美县 Cuòměi Xiàn 540526 COM
Lhozhag County[a] ལྷོ་བྲག་རྫོང་། lho brag rdzong Lhozhag Zong 洛扎县 Luòzhā Xiàn 540527 LHX
Gyaca County རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་། rgya tsha rdzong Gyaca Zong 加查县 Jiāchá Xiàn 540528 GYA
Lhünzê County[b] ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་། lhun rtse rdzong Lhünzê Zong 隆子县 Lóngzǐ Xiàn 540529 LHZ
Nagarzê County[a] སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་། sna dkar rtse rdzong Nagarzê Zong 浪卡子县 Làngkǎzǐ Xiàn 540531 NAX
Cona city[b] མཚོ་སྣ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། mtsho sna grong khyer Cona Chongkyêr 错那市 Cuònà Shì 540581 CON
Nagqu city
ནག་ཆུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
nag chu grong khyer
Nagqu Chongkyêr
那曲市
Nàqū Shì
(5406 / )
Seni District གསེར་རྙེད་ཆུས། gser rnyed chus Sêrnyê Qü 色尼区 Sèní Qū 540602
Lhari County ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་། lha ri rdzong Lhari Zong 嘉黎县 Jiālí Xiàn 540621 LHR
Biru County འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་། 'bri ru rdzong Biru Zong 比如县 Bǐrú Xiàn 540622 BRU
Nyainrong County གཉན་རོང་རྫོང་། gnyan rong rdzong Nyainrong Zong 聂荣县 Nièróng Xiàn 540623 NRO
Amdo County ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་། a mdo rdzong Amdo Zong 安多县 Ānduō Xiàn 540624 AMD
Xainza County ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་། shan rtsa rdzong Xainza Zong 申扎县 Shēnzhā Xiàn 540625 XZX
Sogxian County[c] སོག་རྫོང་། sog rdzong Sog Zong 索县 Suǒxiàn 540626 SOG
Baingoin County དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་། dpal mgon rdzong Baingoin Zong 班戈县 Bāngē Xiàn 540627 BGX
Baqên County སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། sbra chen rdzong Baqên Zong 巴青县 Bāqīng Xiàn 540628 BQE
Nyima County ཉི་མ་རྫོང་། nyi ma rdzong Nyima Zong 尼玛县 Nímǎ Xiàn 540629 NYX
Shuanghu County མཚོ་གཉིས་་རྫོང་། mtsho gnyis rdzong Co'nyi Zong 双湖县 Shuānghú Xiàn 540630 SHA
Ngari Prefecture
མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ།
mnga' ris sa khul
Ngari Sakü
阿里地区
Ālǐ Dìqū
(5425 / NGD)
Burang County སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་། spu hreng rdzong Buranga Zong 普兰县 Pǔlán Xiàn 542521 BUR
Zanda County[b] རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་། rtsa mda' rdzong Zandaa Zong 札达县 Zhádá Xiàn 542522 ZAN
Gar County[b] སྒར་རྫོང་། sgar rdzong Gar Zong 噶尔县 Gá'ěr Xiàn 542523 GAR
Rutog County[b] རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་། ru thog rdzong Rutog Zong 日土县 Rìtǔ Xiàn 542524 RUT
Gê'gyai County དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་། dge rgyas rdzong Gê'gyaia Zong 革吉县 Géjí Xiàn 542525 GEG
Gêrzê County སྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་། sger rtse rdzong Gêrzêa Zong 改则县 Gǎizé Xiàn 542526 GER
Coqên County མཚོ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། mtsho chen rdzong Coqêna Zong 措勤县 Cuòqín Xiàn 542527 COQ
  1. ^ a b c d Some of the border regions are claimed or controlled by the PRC, also claimed or controlled by Bhutan. For more information see Bhutan–China border.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Some of the border regions are claimed or controlled by the PRC, also claimed or controlled by India. For more information see Sino-Indian border dispute.
  3. ^ a b Official name registered by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Administrative divisions history

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Recent changes in administrative divisions

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Date Before After Note Reference[2][3]
1983-01-18 all Province-controlled city (P-City) → Prefecture-level city (PL-City) Civil Affairs Announcement
all Prefecture-controlled city (PC-City) → County-level city (CL-City)
1983-10-07 parts of Lhasa (PL-City) Nyingchi Prefecture established
↳ Mêdog County ↳ Mêdog County transferred
↳ Mainling County ↳ Mainling County transferred
↳ Nyingchi County ↳ Nyingchi County transferred
↳ Gongbo'gyamda County ↳ Gongbo'gyamda County transferred
parts of Shannan Prefecture Nyingchi Prefecture transferred
↳ Nang County ↳ Nang County transferred
parts of Qamdo Prefecture Nyingchi Prefecture transferred
↳ Bomê County ↳ Bomê County transferred
↳ Zayü County ↳ Zayü County transferred
↳ Pütog County established
parts of Zogang County established
parts of Xigazê Prefecture Gyangzê Prefecture established
↳ Yadong County ↳ Yadong County transferred
↳ Kangmar County ↳ Kangmar County transferred
↳ Kamba County ↳ Kamba County transferred
↳ Gyangzê County ↳ Gyangzê County transferred
↳ Rinbung County ↳ Rinbung County transferred
↳ Bainang County ↳ Bainang County transferred
parts of Shannan Prefecture Gyangzê Prefecture transferred
↳ Nagarzê County ↳ Nagarzê County transferred
parts of Baingoin County Nyima County established
parts of Xainza County established
parts of Markam County Yanjing County established
parts of Qamdo County Toba County established
parts of Zhag'yab County established
parts of Jomda County established
parts of Qamdo County Sibda County established
parts of Jomda County established
parts of Zhongba County Lunggar County established
1986-04-07 Qonggyai County (穷结县) Qonggyai County (琼结县) renamed
1986-09-12 Gyangzê Prefecture Xigazê Prefecture disestablished & merged into
↳ Yadong County ↳ Yadong County transferred
↳ Kangmar County ↳ Kangmar County transferred
↳ Kamba County ↳ Kamba County transferred
↳ Gyangzê County ↳ Gyangzê County transferred
↳ Rinbung County ↳ Rinbung County transferred
↳ Bainang County ↳ Bainang County transferred
Gyangzê Prefecture Shannan Prefecture disestablished & merged into
↳ Nagarzê County ↳ Nagarzê County transferred
1986-12-12 Xigazê County Xigazê (CL-City) reorganized
1999-09-21 Lunggar County Zhongba County merged into Civil Affairs [1999]54
Yanjing County Markam County merged into
Pütog County Zogang County merged into
Toba County Qamdo County merged into
Sibda County Jomda County merged into
2012-11-15 parts of Nyima County Shuanghu County established State Council [2012]191
2014-06-26 Xigazê Prefecture Xigazê (PL-City) reorganized State Council [2014]79
Xigazê (CL-City) Samzhubzê District reorganized
2014-10-20 Qamdo Prefecture Qamdo (PL-City) reorganized State Council [2014]143
Qamdo County Karub District reorganized
2015-03-16 Nyingchi Prefecture Nyingchi (PL-City) reorganized State Council [2015]51
Nyingchi County Bayi District reorganized
2015-10-13 Doilungdêqên County Doilungdêqên District reorganized State Council [2015]185
2016-01-07 Shannan Prefecture Shannan (PL-City) reorganized State Council [2016]8
Nêdong County Nêdong District reorganized
2017-07-18 Dagzê County Dagzê District reorganized State Council [2017]107
2017-07-18 Nagqu Prefecture Nagqu (PL-City) reorganized State Council [2017]109
Nagqu County Seni District reorganized

Population composition

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Prefectures

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Prefecture 2010 2000
Ngari 95,465
Nagqu 462,382
Qamdo 657,505
Xigazê 703,292
Lhasa 559,423 474,499
Shannan 328,990
Nyingchi Prefecture 195,109

Counties

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Name Prefecture 2010
Chengguan Lhasa 279,074
Doilungdêqên Lhasa 52,249
Dagzê Lhasa 26,708
Lhünzhub Lhasa 50,246
Damxung Lhasa 46,463
Nyêmo Lhasa 28,149
Qüxü Lhasa 31,860
Maizhokunggar Lhasa 44,674
Qamdo → Karub Qamdo 87,387
Jomdo Qamdo 75,238
Gonjo Qamdo 38,741
Riwoqê Qamdo 40,813
Dêngqên Qamdo 63,209
Zhag'yab Qamdo 53,130
Baxoi Qamdo 41,163
Zogang Qamdo 40,819
Markam Qamdo 81,659
Lhorong Qamdo 44,241
Banbar Qamdo 32,462
Nêdong Lhoka 57,334
Zhanang Lhoka 38,268
Gonggar Lhoka 47,255
Sangri Lhoka 16,453
Qonggyai Lhoka 18,089
Qusum Lhoka 16,943
Comai Lhoka 14,320
Lhozhag Lhoka 18,511
Gyaca Lhoka 18,746
Lhünzê Lhoka 34,097
Cona Lhoka 14,901
Nagarzê Lhoka 35,235
Xigazê → Samzhubzê Xigazê 102,894
Namling Xigazê 79,909
Gyantse Xigazê 63,398
Tingri Xigazê 49,108
Sa'gya Xigazê 46,118
Lhatse Xigazê 49,575
Ngamring Xigazê 47,195
Xaitongmoin Xigazê 43,532
Bainang Xigazê 44,240
Rinbung Xigazê 31,288
Kangmar Xigazê 20,912
Dinggyê Xigazê 18,458
Zhongba Xigazê 19,493
Yadong Xigazê 12,189
Gyirong Xigazê 13,329
Nyalam Xigazê 15,147
Saga Xigazê 12,939
Kamba Xigazê 10,047
Nagqu → Seni Nagqu 91,859
Lhari Nagqu 27,955
Biru Nagqu 51,473
Nyainrong Nagqu 31,292
Amdo Nagqu 35,947
Xainza Nagqu 18,030
Sog(xian) Nagqu 39,036
Baingoin Nagqu 35,780
Baqên Nagqu 45,257
Nyima Nagqu 37,925
Shuanghu Nagqu 10,000
Gar Ngari 13,367
Burang Ngari 8,658
Zanda Ngari 6,567
Rutog Ngari 8,292
Gê'gyai Ngari 13,524
Gêrzê Ngari 20,870
Coqên Ngari 12,183
Nyingchi Nyingchi 40,496
Gongbo'gyamda Nyingchi 25,677
Mainling Nyingchi 18,509
Mêdog Nyingchi 10,623
Bomê Nyingchi 28,288
Zayü Nyingchi 25,784
Nang(xian) Nyingchi 14,954

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Citations

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  1. ^ 最新县及县以上行政区划代码(截止2014年10月31日) (in Simplified Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China.
  2. ^ 中华人民共和国行政区划沿革 (1949-2006). www.gov.cn. Government of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  3. ^ 县级以上行政区划变更情况 (1999-present). www.mca.gov.cn. Ministry of Civial Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 11 January 2016.

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