# Lhatse County

Lhatse County is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was established in 1959, with Lhatse Town as the county seat. In 1968, Quxar Town became the county seat.
Lhatse County has a population of some 50,000 and is about 200 kilometers from Mount Everest (or Chomolungma). It is among the most impoverished counties in China.

## Administration divisions

Lhatse County is divided into 2 towns and 9 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Quxar Town | 曲下镇 | Qǔxià zhèn | ཆུ་ཤར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu shar grong rdal |
| Lhazê Town | 拉孜镇 | Lāzī zhèn | ལྷ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lha rtse grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Tashi Dzom Township | 扎西宗乡 | Zhāxīzōng xiāng | བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་ཤང་། | bkra shis 'dzoms shang |
| Qoima Township | 曲玛乡 | Qǔmǎ xiāng | ཆོས་མ་ཤང་། | chos ma shang |
| Püncogling Township | 彭措林乡 | Péngcuòlín xiāng | ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཤང་། | bon tshogs gling shang |
| Tashigang Township | 扎西岗乡 | Zhāxīgǎng xiāng | བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ཤང་། | bkra shis sgang shang |
| Liu Township | 柳乡 | Liǔ xiāng | སླེའུ་ཤང་། | sle'u shang |
| Resa Township | 热萨乡 | Rèsà xiāng | རེ་ས་ཤང་། | re sa shang |
| Xiqên Township | 锡钦乡 | Xīqīn xiāng | གཞིས་ཆེན་ཤང་། | gzhis chen shang |
| Mangpu Township | 芒普乡 | Mángpǔ xiāng | མང་ཕུ་ཤང་། | mang pu shang |
| Chau Township | 查务乡 | Cháwù xiāng | གྲའུ་ཤང་། | gra'u shang |

## Climate

Lhatse County recorded the highest temperature of 28.9 °C (84.0 °F) in locations above 4,000 meters above sea level.
Climate data for Lhatse, elevation 4,000 m (13,000 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) | 18.5 (65.3) | 21.6 (70.9) | 22.7 (72.9) | 27.5 (81.5) | 28.7 (83.7) | 28.9 (84.0) | 27.0 (80.6) | 24.1 (75.4) | 22.1 (71.8) | 20.1 (68.2) | 19.6 (67.3) | 28.9 (84.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) | 7.9 (46.2) | 11.0 (51.8) | 14.6 (58.3) | 19.0 (66.2) | 22.7 (72.9) | 21.1 (70.0) | 19.7 (67.5) | 19.2 (66.6) | 16.0 (60.8) | 11.4 (52.5) | 8.2 (46.8) | 14.8 (58.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.7 (28.9) | 0.4 (32.7) | 3.9 (39.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 11.6 (52.9) | 15.4 (59.7) | 14.6 (58.3) | 13.6 (56.5) | 12.6 (54.7) | 8.5 (47.3) | 3.1 (37.6) | −0.4 (31.3) | 7.4 (45.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −9.8 (14.4) | −7.4 (18.7) | −3.5 (25.7) | 0.4 (32.7) | 4.9 (40.8) | 9.2 (48.6) | 9.6 (49.3) | 8.8 (47.8) | 7.2 (45.0) | 1.6 (34.9) | −5.0 (23.0) | −8.8 (16.2) | 0.6 (33.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.1 (−2.4) | −16.8 (1.8) | −12.7 (9.1) | −8.0 (17.6) | −4.4 (24.1) | 1.0 (33.8) | 2.7 (36.9) | 2.6 (36.7) | 0.5 (32.9) | −7.2 (19.0) | −13.3 (8.1) | −16.9 (1.6) | −19.1 (−2.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.2 (0.01) | 0.2 (0.01) | 0.3 (0.01) | 2.6 (0.10) | 14.7 (0.58) | 49.1 (1.93) | 123.6 (4.87) | 123.0 (4.84) | 38.2 (1.50) | 3.2 (0.13) | 0.2 (0.01) | 0.3 (0.01) | 355.6 (14) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 4.3 | 10.8 | 20.6 | 21.3 | 10.9 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 72.6 |
| Average snowy days | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 7.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 18 | 18 | 20 | 25 | 31 | 41 | 59 | 64 | 53 | 29 | 21 | 18 | 33 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 254.1 | 239.2 | 272.3 | 272.3 | 300.1 | 268.8 | 209.9 | 202.7 | 237.5 | 290.9 | 268.9 | 264.6 | 3,081.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 78 | 75 | 73 | 70 | 71 | 64 | 50 | 50 | 65 | 83 | 85 | 83 | 71 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Transport

The county is a juncture of China National Highway 219 (G219) which goes to Kashgar and China National Highway 318 (G318) which ends at the border with Nepal. To the west along the G318, a road splits off and runs to the Mount Everest base camp.

## Gallery

* Map including Lhatse County area (ATC, 1971)
* National Highway 318