Gyantse

Gyantse རྒྱལ་རྩེ · 江孜镇
Gyangzê
View of Old Gyantse and Palcho Monastery from Gyantse Dzong
Gyantse Location in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates (Gyantse town government): 28°54′53″N 89°36′16″E / 28.9148°N 89.6045°E / 28.9148; 89.6045
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level city	Shigatse
County	Gyantse
Population  (2010)
• Total	11,039
Time zone	UTC+8 (CST)

Gyantse, officially Gyangzê Town (also spelled Gyangtse; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ, Wylie: rgyal rtse, ZYPY: Gyangzê; simplified Chinese: 江孜镇; traditional Chinese: 江孜鎮; pinyin: Jiāngzī Zhèn), is a town located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in the Tibet region (after Lhasa, and Shigatse), but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities.^[1]