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
Prefectural level divisions
Prefectural cities6
Prefectures1
County level divisions
Counties66
Districts8
Township level divisions
Towns140
Townships535
Ethnic townships8
Subdistricts9
Villages level divisions
Communities2,354
Administrative villages11,948
This article is part of a series on
Administrative divisions of China

History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present

Administrative division codes

Administrative divisions

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 levelCounty Level
English Name
official		TibetanWylie transliterationTibetan pinyin
official transcription		ChineseHanyu PinyinDivision code[1]
Lhasa city
ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
lha sa grong khyer
Lhasa Chongkyêr
拉萨市
Lāsà Shì
(Capital)
(5401 / LXA)		 Chengguan Districtཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས།khrin kon chusChênggoin Qü城关区Chéngguān Qū540102CGN
Doilungdêqên Districtསྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཆུས།stod lung bde chen chusDölungdêqên Qü堆龙德庆区Duīlóngdéqìng Qū540103DLD
Dagzê Districtསྟག་རྩེ་ཆུས།stag rtse chusDagzê Qü达孜区Dázī Qū540104
Lhünzhub Countyལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྫོང་།lhun grub rdzongLhünzhub Zong林周县Línzhōu Xiàn540121LZB
Damxung Countyའདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང་།'dam gzhung rdzongDamxung Zong当雄县Dāngxióng Xiàn540122DAM
Nyêmo Countyསྙེ་མོ་རྫོང་།snye mo rdzongNyêmo Zong尼木县Nímù Xiàn540123NYE
Qüxü Countyཆུ་ཤུར་རྫོང་།chu shur rdzongQüxü Zong曲水县Qūshuǐ Xiàn540124QUX
Maizhokunggar Countyམལ་གྲོ་གུང་དཀར་རྫོང་།mal gro gung dkar rdzongMaizhokunggar Zong墨竹工卡县Mòzhúgōngkǎ Xiàn540127MAI
Xigazê city
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
ggzhis ka rtse grong khyer
Xigazê Chongkyêr
日喀则市
Rìkāzé Shì
(5402 / XGB)		 Samzhubzê Districtབསམ་འགྲུབ་རྩེ་ཆུས།bsam 'grub rtse chusSamzhubzê Qü桑珠孜区Sāngzhūzī Qū540202SAZ
Namling Countyརྣམ་གླིང་རྫོང་།rnam gling rdzongNamling Zong南木林县Nánmùlín Xiàn540221NAM
Gyangzê Countyརྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།rgyal rtse rdzongGyangzê Zong江孜县Jiāngzī Xiàn540222GYZ
Tingri Countyདིང་རི་རྫོང་།ding ri rdzongTingri Zong定日县Dìngrì Xiàn540223TIN
Sa'gya Countyས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་།sa skya rdzongSa'gya Zong萨迦县Sàjiā Xiàn540224SGX
Lhazê Countyལྷ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།lha rtse rdzongLhazê Zong拉孜县Lāzī Xiàn540225LAZ
Ngamring Countyངམ་རིང་རྫོང་།ngam ring rdzongNgamring Zong昂仁县Ángrén Xiàn540226NGA
Xaitongmoin Countyབཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།bzhad mthong smon rdzongXaitongmoin Zong谢通门县Xiètōngmén Xiàn540227XTM
Bainang Countyཔ་སྣམ་རྫོང་།pa snam rdzongBainang Zong白朗县Báilǎng Xiàn540228BAI
Rinbung Countyརིན་སྤུངས་རྫོང་།rin spungs rdzongRinbung Zong仁布县Rénbù Xiàn540229RIN
Kangmar County[lower-alpha 1]ཁང་དམར་རྫོང་།khang dmar rdzongKangmar Zong康马县Kāngmǎ Xiàn540230KAN
Dinggyê Countyགདིང་སྐྱེས་རྫོང་།gding skyes rdzongDinggyê Zong定结县Dìngjié Xiàn540231DIN
Zhongba Countyའབྲོང་པ་རྫོང་།'brong pa rdzongZhongba Zong仲巴县Zhòngbā Xiàn540232ZHB
Yadong County[lower-alpha 1]གྲོ་མོ་རྫོང་།gro mo rdzongChomo (Yadong) Zong亚东县Yàdōng Xiàn540233YDZ
Gyirong Countyསྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་།skyid grong rdzongGyirong Zong吉隆县Jílóng Xiàn540234GIR
Nyalam Countyགཉའ་ལམ་རྫོང་།gnya' lam rdzongNyalam Zong聂拉木县Nièlāmù Xiàn540235NYA
Saga Countyས་དགའ་རྫོང་།sa dga' rdzongSaga Zong萨嘎县Sàgā Xiàn540236SAG
Kamba Countyགམ་པ་རྫོང་།gam pa rdzongG=Kamba Zong岗巴县Gǎngbā Xiàn540237GAM
Qamdo city
ཆབ་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
chab mdo grong khyer
Qamdo Chongkyêr
昌都市
Chāngdū Shì
(5403 / GDX)		 Karuo Districtམཁར་རོ་ཆུས།mkhar ro chusKarub Qü卡若区Kǎruò Qū540302KRO
Jomda Countyའཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་།'jo mda' rdzongJomda Zong江达县Jiāngdá Xiàn540321JOM
Gonjo Countyགོ་འཇོ་རྫོང་།go 'jo rdzongGonjo Zong贡觉县Gòngjué Xiàn540322KON
Riwoqê Countyརི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་།ri bo che rdzongRiwoqê Zong类乌齐县Lèiwūqí Xiàn540323RIW
Dêngqên Countyསྟེང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།steng chen rdzongDêngqên Zong丁青县Dīngqīng Xiàn540324DEN
Zhag'yab Countyབྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་།brag g-yab rdzongZhag’yab Zong察雅县Cháyǎ Xiàn540325CHA
Baxoi Countyདཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།dpa' shod rdzongBaxoi Zong八宿县Bāsù Xiàn540326BAX
Zogang Countyམཛོ་སྒང་རྫོང་།mdzo sgang rdzongZogang Zong左贡县Zuǒgòng Xiàn540327ZOX
Markam Countyསྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།smar khams rdzongMarkam Zong芒康县Mángkāng Xiàn540328MAN
Lhorong Countyལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་།lho rong rdzongLhorong Zong洛隆县Luòlóng Xiàn540329LHO
Banbar Countyདཔལ་འབར་རྫོང་།dpal 'bar rdzongBanbar Zong边坝县Biānbà Xiàn540330BAN
Nyingchi city
ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
nying khri grong khyer
Nyingchi Chongkyêr
林芝市
Línzhī Shì
(5404 / NYC)		 Bayi Districtབྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས།brag yib chusChagyib Qü巴宜区Bāyí Qū540402BYA
Gongbo'gyamda Countyཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་།kong po rgya mda' rdzongGongbo'gyamda Zong工布江达县Gōngbùjiāngdá Xiàn540421GOX
Mainling Countyསྨན་གླིང་རྫོང་།sman gling rdzongMainling Zong米林县Mǐlín Xiàn540422MAX
Mêdog County[lower-alpha 2]མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་།me tog rdzongMêdog Zong墨脱县Mòtuō Xiàn540423MET
Bomê Countyསྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་།spo mes rdzongBomê Zong波密县Bōmì Xiàn540424BMI
Zayü County[lower-alpha 2]རྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།rdza yul rdzongZayü Zong察隅县Cháyú Xiàn540425ZAY
Nangxian County[lower-alpha 3]སྣང་རྫོང་།snang rdzongNang Zong朗县Lǎngxiàn540426NGX
Shannan city
ལྷོ་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
lho kha grong khyer
Lhoka Chongkyêr
山南市
Shānnán Shì
(5405 / SNB)		 Nêdong Districtསྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས།sne gdong chusNêdong Qü乃东区Nǎidōng Qū540502NDQ
Zhanang Countyགྲ་ནང་རྫོང་།gra nang rdzongZhanang Zong扎囊县Zhānáng Xiàn540521CNG
Gonggar Countyགོང་དཀར་རྫོང་།gong dkar rdzongGonggar Zong贡嘎县Gònggā Xiàn540522GON
Sangri Countyཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།zangs ri rdzongSangri Zong桑日县Sāngrì Xiàn540523SRI
Qonggyai Countyའཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།'phyongs rgyas rdzongQonggyai Zong琼结县Qióngjié Xiàn540524QON
Qusum Countyཆུ་གསུམ་རྫོང་།chu gsum rdzongQusum Zong曲松县Qūsōng Xiàn540525QUS
Comai Countyམཚོ་སམད་རྫོང་།mtsho smad rdzongComai Zong措美县Cuòměi Xiàn540526COM
Lhozhag County[lower-alpha 1]ལྷོ་བྲག་རྫོང་།lho brag rdzongLhozhag Zong洛扎县Luòzhā Xiàn540527LHX
Gyaca Countyརྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།rgya tsha rdzongGyaca Zong加查县Jiāchá Xiàn540528GYA
Lhünzê County[lower-alpha 2]ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་།lhun rtse rdzongLhünzê Zong隆子县Lóngzǐ Xiàn540529LHZ
Cona County[lower-alpha 2]མཚོ་སྣ་རྫོང་།mtsho sna rdzongCona Zong错那县Cuònà Xiàn540530CON
Nagarzê County[lower-alpha 1]སྣ་དཀར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།sna dkar rtse rdzongNagarzê Zong浪卡子县Làngkǎzǐ Xiàn540531NAX
Nagqu city
ནག་ཆུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
nag chu grong khyer
Nagqu Chongkyêr
那曲市
Nàqū Shì
(5406 / )		 Seni Districtགསེར་རྙེད་ཆུས།gser rnyed chusSêrnyê Qü色尼区Sèní Qū540602
Lhari Countyལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།lha ri rdzongLhari Zong嘉黎县Jiālí Xiàn540621LHR
Biru Countyའབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།'bri ru rdzongBiru Zong比如县Bǐrú Xiàn540622BRU
Nyainrong Countyགཉན་རོང་རྫོང་།gnyan rong rdzongNyainrong Zong聂荣县Nièróng Xiàn540623NRO
Amdo Countyཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་།a mdo rdzongAmdo Zong安多县Ānduō Xiàn540624AMD
Xainza Countyཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་།shan rtsa rdzongXainza Zong申扎县Shēnzhā Xiàn540625XZX
Sogxian County[lower-alpha 3]སོག་རྫོང་།sog rdzongSog Zong索县Suǒxiàn540626SOG
Baingoin Countyདཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་།dpal mgon rdzongBaingoin Zong班戈县Bāngē Xiàn540627BGX
Baqên Countyསྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།sbra chen rdzongBaqên Zong巴青县Bāqīng Xiàn540628BQE
Nyima Countyཉི་མ་རྫོང་།nyi ma rdzongNyima Zong尼玛县Nímǎ Xiàn540629NYX
Shuanghu Countyམཚོ་གཉིས་་རྫོང་།mtsho gnyis rdzongCo'nyi Zong双湖县Shuānghú Xiàn540630SHA
Ngari Prefecture
མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ།
mnga' ris sa khul
Ngari Sakü
阿里地区
Ālǐ Dìqū
(5425 / NGD)		 Burang Countyསྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་།spu hreng rdzongBuranga Zong普兰县Pǔlán Xiàn542521BUR
Zanda County[lower-alpha 2]རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་།rtsa mda' rdzongZandaa Zong札达县Zhádá Xiàn542522ZAN
Gar County[lower-alpha 2]སྒར་རྫོང་།sgar rdzongGar Zong噶尔县Gá'ěr Xiàn542523GAR
Rutog County[lower-alpha 2]རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་།ru thog rdzongRutog Zong日土县Rìtǔ Xiàn542524RUT
Gê'gyai Countyདགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་།dge rgyas rdzongGê'gyaia Zong革吉县Géjí Xiàn542525GEG
Gêrzê Countyསྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།sger rtse rdzongGêrzêa Zong改则县Gǎizé Xiàn542526GER
Coqên Countyམཚོ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།mtsho chen rdzongCoqêna Zong措勤县Cuòqín Xiàn542527COQ
  1. 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. 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. Official name registered by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Administrative divisions history

Recent changes in administrative divisions
DateBeforeAfterNoteReference[2][3]
1983-01-18all Province-controlled city (P-City) → Prefecture-level city (PL-City)MoCA Announcement
all Prefecture-controlled city (PC-City) → County-level city (CL-City)
1983-10-07parts of Lhasa (PL-City)Nyingchi Prefectureestablished
↳ Mêdog County↳ Mêdog Countytransferred
↳ Mainling County↳ Mainling Countytransferred
↳ Nyingchi County↳ Nyingchi Countytransferred
↳ Gongbo'gyamda County↳ Gongbo'gyamda Countytransferred
parts of Shannan PrefectureNyingchi Prefecturetransferred
↳ Nang County↳ Nang Countytransferred
parts of Qamdo PrefectureNyingchi Prefecturetransferred
↳ Bomê County↳ Bomê Countytransferred
↳ Zayü County↳ Zayü Countytransferred
↳ Pütog Countyestablished
↳ parts of Zogang Countyestablished
parts of Xigazê PrefectureGyangzê Prefectureestablished
↳ Yadong County↳ Yadong Countytransferred
↳ Kangmar County↳ Kangmar Countytransferred
↳ Kamba County↳ Kamba Countytransferred
↳ Gyangzê County↳ Gyangzê Countytransferred
↳ Rinbung County↳ Rinbung Countytransferred
↳ Bainang County↳ Bainang Countytransferred
parts of Shannan PrefectureGyangzê Prefecturetransferred
↳ Nagarzê County↳ Nagarzê Countytransferred
parts of Baingoin CountyNyima Countyestablished
parts of Xainza Countyestablished
parts of Markam CountyYanjing Countyestablished
parts of Qamdo CountyToba Countyestablished
parts of Zhag'yab Countyestablished
parts of Jomda Countyestablished
parts of Qamdo CountySibda Countyestablished
parts of Jomda Countyestablished
parts of Zhongba CountyLunggar Countyestablished
1986-04-07Qonggyai County (穷结县)Qonggyai County (琼结县)renamed
1986-09-12Gyangzê PrefectureXigazê Prefecturedissolved & merged into
↳ Yadong County↳ Yadong Countytransferred
↳ Kangmar County↳ Kangmar Countytransferred
↳ Kamba County↳ Kamba Countytransferred
↳ Gyangzê County↳ Gyangzê Countytransferred
↳ Rinbung County↳ Rinbung Countytransferred
↳ Bainang County↳ Bainang Countytransferred
Gyangzê PrefectureShannan Prefecturedissolved & merged into
↳ Nagarzê County↳ Nagarzê Countytransferred
1986-12-12Xigazê CountyXigazê (CL-City)upgraded
1999-09-21Lunggar CountyZhongba Countymerged intoMinhan[1999]54
Yanjing CountyMarkam Countymerged into
Pütog CountyZogang Countymerged into
Toba CountyQamdo Countymerged into
Sibda CountyJomda Countymerged into
2012-11-15parts of Nyima CountyShuanghu CountyestablishedGuohan[2012]191
2014-06-26Xigazê PrefectureXigazê (PL-City)upgradedGuohan[2014]79
Xigazê (CL-City)Samzhubzê Districtupgraded
2014-10-20Qamdo PrefectureQamdo (PL-City)upgradedGuohan[2014]143
Qamdo CountyKarub Districtupgraded
2015-03-16Nyingchi PrefectureNyingchi (PL-City)upgradedGuohan[2015]51
Nyingchi CountyBayi Districtupgraded
2015-10-13Doilungdêqên CountyDoilungdêqên DistrictupgradedGuohan[2015]185
2016-01-07Shannan PrefectureShannan (PL-City)upgradedGuohan[2016]8
Nêdong CountyNêdong Districtupgraded
2017-08-??Nagqu PrefectureNagqu (PL-City)upgraded
Nagqu CountySeni Districtupgraded
2015-08-??Dagzê CountyDagzê Districtupgraded

Population composition

Prefectures
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
NamePrefecture2010
ChengguanLhasa279,074
DoilungdêqênLhasa52,249
DagzêLhasa26,708
LhünzhubLhasa50,246
DamxungLhasa46,463
NyêmoLhasa28,149
QüxüLhasa31,860
MaizhokunggarLhasa44,674
Qamdo → KarubQamdo87,387
JomdoQamdo75,238
GonjoQamdo38,741
RiwoqêQamdo40,813
DêngqênQamdo63,209
Zhag'yabQamdo53,130
BaxoiQamdo41,163
ZogangQamdo40,819
MarkamQamdo81,659
LhorongQamdo44,241
BanbarQamdo32,462
NêdongLhoka57,334
ZhanangLhoka38,268
GonggarLhoka47,255
SangriLhoka16,453
QonggyaiLhoka18,089
QusumLhoka16,943
ComaiLhoka14,320
LhozhagLhoka18,511
GyacaLhoka18,746
LhünzêLhoka34,097
ConaLhoka14,901
NagarzêLhoka35,235
Xigazê → SamzhubzêXigazê102,894
NamlingXigazê79,909
GyantseXigazê63,398
TingriXigazê49,108
Sa'gyaXigazê46,118
LhatseXigazê49,575
NgamringXigazê47,195
XaitongmoinXigazê43,532
BainangXigazê44,240
RinbungXigazê31,288
KangmarXigazê20,912
DinggyêXigazê18,458
ZhongbaXigazê19,493
YadongXigazê12,189
GyirongXigazê13,329
NyalamXigazê15,147
SagaXigazê12,939
KambaXigazê10,047
Nagqu → SeniNagqu91,859
LhariNagqu27,955
BiruNagqu51,473
NyainrongNagqu31,292
AmdoNagqu35,947
XainzaNagqu18,030
Sog(xian)Nagqu39,036
BaingoinNagqu35,780
BaqênNagqu45,257
NyimaNagqu37,925
ShuanghuNagqu10,000
GarNgari13,367
BurangNgari8,658
ZandaNgari6,567
RutogNgari8,292
Gê'gyaiNgari13,524
GêrzêNgari20,870
CoqênNgari12,183
NyingchiNyingchi40,496
Gongbo'gyamdaNyingchi25,677
MainlingNyingchi18,509
MêdogNyingchi10,623
BomêNyingchi28,288
ZayüNyingchi25,784
Nang(xian)Nyingchi14,954

See also

References

Citations
  1. 最新县及县以上行政区划代码（截止2014年10月31日） (in 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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