Günsa
Günsa
昆沙乡 | |
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Günsa Location in the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Coordinates: 32°06′51″N 80°03′37″E / 32.1141°N 80.0604°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| County | Gar |
| Elevation | 4,270 m (14,010 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 2,718 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
Gar Günsa (Tibetan: སྒར་དགུན་ས, Wylie: sgar dgun sa), also called Günsa or Kunsa (simplified Chinese: 昆沙乡; traditional Chinese: 昆沙鄉; pinyin: Kūnshā Xiāng), is a township in Gar County in the Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet region of China. Gar Günsa is situated on the bank of the Gartang River, one of the headwaters of the Indus River flowing to the south of the Kailash Range, at an elevation of 4,270 metres (14,010 ft). Gar Günsa, along with its sister encampment Gar Yarsa, used to be the administrative headquarters for Western Tibet (Ngari) and jointly referred to as Gartok. In 1965, the headquarters of Ngari was moved to Shiquanhe, which also serves as the headquarters of the Ngari Prefecture as whole.
The seat of the township is Gar Chongsar (སྒར་གྲོང་གསར; 噶尔新村; Gá'ěr Xīncūn; 'Gar New Village'). The Ngari Gunsa Airport is adjacent to the village. Two other administrative villages, Sogmai (སོག་སྨད) and Namru (གནམ་རུ) are part of the township.