Nagqu Prefecture

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Nagqu prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region
Nagqu prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region

Nagqu Prefecture (or Nagchu; Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Nag-chu Sa-khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: Nàqū Dìqū) is the largest prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. As of 2001 Nagqu has a population of 363,000 and has a total area of 450,537 km². The prefecture is divided into 11 different counties and Nagchu County contains the capital of Nagqu.

[edit] County divisions of the Nagqu Prefecture

  • Nagchu County ནག་ཆུ་རྫོང་ nag chu rdzong
  • Lhari County ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་ lha ri rdzong
  • Biru County འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་ 'bri ru rdzong
  • Nyainrong County གཉན་རོང་རྫོང་ gnyan rong rdzong
  • Amdo County ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་ a mdo rdzong
  • Xainza County ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་ shan rtsa rdzong
  • Sog County སོག་རྫོང་ sog rdzong
  • Baingoin County དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་ dpal mgon rdzong
  • Baqên County སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ sbra chen rdzong
  • Nyima County ཉི་མ་རྫོང་ nyi ma rdzong
  • Shuanghu Special District མཚོ་གཉིས་དོན་གཅོད་ཁྲུའུ་ mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u


Prefecture-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level city: Lhasa
Prefectures: Naqgu | Ngari | Nyingchi | Qamdo | Shannan | Xigazê
List of Tibet Autonomous Region County-level divisions
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