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Lhasa, [a] officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, [b] is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. [4]Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres (11,990 ft), Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world.
Altitude (m) Altitude (ft) Tibet Autonomous Region: Lhasa: 3,656 11,995 Somaliland [Note 2] Hargeisa: 1,334 4,377 South Ossetia [Note 2] Tskhinvali: 860 2,820 Kosovo [Note 2] Pristina: 603 1,977 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [Note 2] Tifariti and Laayoune: 490 (and 68) 1,610 (and 223) Northern Cyprus [Note 2] North Nicosia: 130 428 ...
Lhasa is the capital and largest city in Tibet. Founded in the A.D. 5th century and largely closed to foreigners until the early 1980s, it is a holy Buddhist city dominated by Potala Palace, the former home of the Dalai Lama, and full of prayer wheels and prayer flags (colorful pieces of rag are tied on to strings).
Elevation Name Country Comments 5,100 metres (16,700 ft) La Rinconada Peru [1] The highest in the ... Lhasa, Tibet China: Population ...
Lhasa Gonggar Airport (IATA: LXA, ICAO: ZULS) is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is about 97 kilometres (60 mi) to Lhasa and about 62 kilometres (39 mi) southwest of the city in Gyazhugling, Gonggar County of Shannan .
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The age of east–west grabens in the Lhasa and Himalaya terranes suggests that the plateau's elevation was close to its modern altitude by around 14 to 8 million years ago. [24] Erosion rates in Tibet decreased significantly around 10 million years ago. [25]
Damxung is a county of Lhasa City, lying to the north of its main center of Chengguan, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its administrative seat is Damquka . The terrain is rugged, including the western Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains , with their highest peak rising to 7,111 metres (23,330 ft).