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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.
Average Height Town / City Country Population Est. Year 4,150 m (13,615 ft) El Alto ... Lhasa China: 373,000: 2009 3,640 m (11,942 ft) La Paz
Lhasa [a] is a prefecture-level city, [b] one of the main administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.It covers an area of 29,274 square kilometres (11,303 sq mi) of rugged and sparsely populated terrain.
File:Lhasa map.svg. ... A map of the administrative boundaries of The Tibet Autonomous Region with Lhasa Prefecture highlighted. ... Height: 1059.4189
On January 15, 2009, China announced the construction of Tibet's first expressway, the Lhasa Airport Expressway, a 37.9 km (23.5 mi) stretch of controlled-access highway in southwestern Lhasa. The project will cost 1.55 billion yuan (US$227 million).
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 .
China's Ministry of Natural Resources released the new “standard” national map on Monday, part of what it has called an ongoing effort to eliminate “problem maps.”
The Indo-Australian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the Tibetan Plateau, which forces the plateau to move upwards; the plateau is still rising at a rate of approximately 5 mm (0.2 in) per year (although erosion reduces the actual increase in height). [26] Much of the Tibetan Plateau is of relatively low relief.