Gar County

Gar County
噶尔县 • སྒར་རྫོང་།
Senge Tsangpo, Gaer
PLA emblem on the hill near Shiquanhe
PLA emblem on the hill near Shiquanhe
Location of Gar County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Gar County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Gar is located in Ngari
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Gar
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Gar is located in Tibet
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Gar
Gar (Tibet)
Gar is located in China
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Gar
Gar (China)
Coordinates (Gar County government): 32°29′32″N 80°05′48″E / 32.4921°N 80.0966°E / 32.4921; 80.0966
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
County seatSênggêkanbab (Shiquanhe, Gar)
Area
 • Total
17,669.72 km2 (6,822.32 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
31,052
 • Density1.7574/km2 (4.5515/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitege.al.gov.cn
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Gar County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese噶尔县
Traditional Chinese噶爾縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGá'ěr Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྒར་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliesgar rdzong
Tibetan PinyinGar Zong

Gar County (Tibetan: སྒར་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 噶尔县), formerly Senge Tsangpo County, is a district (county) in the Ngari Prefecture of the western Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The main town is Shiquanhe (Sênggêkanbab), also called "Gar", on account of being the county seat, and "Ali", on account of being the seat of Ngari Prefecture.