Xainza

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title: "Xainza" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-nagqu", "township-level-divisions-of-tibet", "xainza-county"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-nagqu" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xainza" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Xainza
native_name
translit_lang1	Tibetan
translit_lang1_type	Tibetan
translit_lang1_info	ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང
translit_lang1_type1	Wylie transliteration
translit_lang1_info1	shan rtsa rdzong
translit_lang1_type2	pronunciation in IPA
translit_lang1_type3	official transcription (PRC)
translit_lang1_info3	Xainza
translit_lang1_type4	THDL
translit_lang1_info4	Shentsa
translit_lang1_type5	other transcriptions
translit_lang2	Chinese
translit_lang2_type	Traditional
translit_lang2_info	申扎镇
translit_lang2_type1	Simplified
translit_lang2_info1	申扎县
translit_lang2_type2	Pinyin
translit_lang2_info2	Shēnzhā Xiàn
translit_lang2_info6	--
settlement_type	Town
dot_x
pushpin_map	China Tibet
pushpin_label_position
pushpin_map_caption	Location within Tibet
pushpin_mapsize	300
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	China
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Tibet
subdivision_type2	Prefecture
subdivision_name2	Nagqu Prefecture
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Xainza County
leader_title1
established_title
established_title2
established_title3
unit_pref
area_total_km2	2146
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2004
population_total	17000
population_blank1_title	Major Nationalities
population_blank1	Tibetan
population_blank2_title	Regional dialect
population_blank2	Tibetan language
timezone	+8
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
postal_code_type
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|postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = Xainza (also Naktsang, Xainza Town or Shantsa) is a town and township-level administrative unit and seat of Shentsa County or Xainza County, Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

It covers an area of 2146 square kilometres and in 2004 had a total population of about 17,000. The township was established by the Chinese in 1961. The main occupation is animal husbandry, mainly yak, goat and sheep rearing.

Villages

The township-level division contains the following settlements:

• Gasangduo (neighborhood) (嘎桑多居委会)
• Rongsaiduo (neighborhood) (融塞多居委会)
• Nacha (拿查村)
• Luopu (罗普村 )
• Qiangrong (羌戎村)
• Qubu (曲布村)
• Yongzhu Woma (永珠沃玛村)
• Rennaduo (仁那多村)

Footnotes

References

• Dorje, Gyurme. Footprint Tibet Handbook. 4th Edition. (2009) Bath, U.K.

References

2. Dorje (2009), p. 397.
3. (July 2025). "Xainza Town". CCGuide.cn.
4. link. [[Hudong]] Encyclopedia

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