Lhasa Donggar Wholesale Market, or Lhasa Donggar Agricultural Products Wholesale Market (Chinese: 拉萨东嘎农产品批发市场), is a large-scale agricultural products wholesale market in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region of China, located in Sangmu Village, Donggar Subdistrict, Doilungdêqên, Lhasa, and is one of the large-scale agricultural products wholesale markets at the national level in the People's Republic of China.
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Donggar is a subdistrict in Doilungdêqên District in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, northwest of Lhasa. It lies at an altitude of 3,828 metres. The subdistrict has a population of about 4,000 people with 9,359 people in the township.
It lies approximately 17.8 miles south of Dobjoi and is near Cha'gyungoinba.
In 1962 Donggar became an administrative township, covering an area of 85 square kilometers. Donggar Township has three village committees and 17 villages. The economy is dominated by agriculture, animal husbandry with an area of 8,636 mu of cultivated land, including barley, wheat, rapeseed and vegetables. Livestock breeding includes yaks, sheep, goats, etc. China National Highway 318 runs through this territory.
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Doilungdêqên District is a district in Lhasa, north-west of the main center of Chengguan, Tibet Autonomous Region. It is largely agricultural or pastoral, but contains the western suburbs of the city of Lhasa. The Duilong River runs southeast through the district to the Lhasa River. A prehistoric site appears to be 3600–3000 years old. The district is home to the Tsurphu Monastery and the 17th century Nechung monastery.
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Lhasa West railway station is a railway station in Lhasa, Tibet, China. It underwent renovations from 2016 to 2018.
This is a cargo station so no passenger trains stop at here as of November 2023.
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The Duilong River, or Duilong Qu, is a right tributary of the Lhasa River, which it enters just below the city of Lhasa, Tibet, China. The river is about 137 kilometres in length. Water quality may be compromised by dissolved substances including arsenic from geothermal springs.
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Mount Gephel or Genpei Utse, is a small Tibetan mountain located 8 kilometers west of Lhasa in Tibet. Drepung Monastery lies at its foot.
The highest point of Mount Gephel is 5400 meters. There is a site in the mountainside, whenever the June 4 as the "mountain turning festival" in Tibetan calendar, thousands of believers in Lhasa would come to Mount Gephel for pilgrimaging to Buddha.