page_title: Lhasa
section_title: Administration
hierarchical_section_title: Lhasa / Geography / Administration
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch map of Chengguan District, Lhasa, Tibet
context_page_description: Lhasa or Chengguan is a district and administrative capital of Lhasa City in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The inner urban area of Lhasa City is equivalent to the administrative borders of Chengguan District, which is part of the wider prefectural Lhasa City.
  Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres, Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. The city has been the religious and administrative capital of Tibet since the mid-17th century. It contains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka Palaces.
context_section_description: 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 28 kilometres (17 mi) from east to west and 31 kilometres (19 mi) 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.
  Chengguan District has an elevation of 3,650 metres (11,980 ft) and covers 525 square kilometres (203 sq mi).
  The urban built-up area covers 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi).
  The average annual temperature of 8 °C (46 °F).
  Annual precipitation is about 500 millimetres (20 in), mostly falling between July and September.
  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.
  Chengguan District of Lhasa was established on 23 April 1961. 
  It currently has 12 fully urban subdistricts.
caption: The built-up area (pink) within the Chengguan District (yellow)
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