The Lhasa Prefecture is a prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The principal centre is the city of Lhasa, also the capital of the region and cultural centre of Tibet.
Administratively speaking, Lhasa is a prefecture-level city that consists of one district and seven counties. Chengguan District is the main urban area of Lhasa. The mayor and vice-mayor of Lhasa are Doje Cezhug and Jigme Namgyal, respectively.
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| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2003 est.) | Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
| 1 | Chengguan District | 城关区 | Chéngguān Qū | ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས་ | khrin kon chus | 140,000 | 525 | 267 |
| 2 | Lhünzhub County | 林周县 | Línzhōu Xiàn | ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྫོང་ | lhun grub rdzong | 60,000 | 4,100 | 1 |
| 3 | Damxung County | 当雄县 | Dāngxióng Xiàn | འདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང | dam gzhung rdzong | 40,000 | 10,234 | 4 |
| 4 | Nyêmo County | 尼木县 | Nímù Xiàn | སྙེ་མོ་རྫོང་ | snye mo rdzong | 30,000 | 3,266 | 9 |
| 5 | Qüxü County | 曲水县 | Qūshuǐ Xiàn | ཆུ་ཤུར་རྫོང་ | chu shur rdzong | 30,000 | 1,624 | 18 |
| 6 | Doilungdêqên County | 堆龙德庆县 | Duīlóngdéqìng Xiàn | སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | stod lung bde chen rdzong | 40,000 | 2,672 | 15 |
| 7 | Dagzê County | 达孜县 | Dázī Xiàn | སྟག་རྩེ་རྫོང་ | stag rtse rdzong | 30,000 | 1,361 | 22 |
| 8 | Maizhokunggar County | 墨竹工卡县 | Mòzhúgōngkǎ Xiàn | མལ་གྲོ་གུང་དཀར་རྫོང་ | mal gro gung dkar rdzong | 40,000 | 5,492 | 7 |