Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County

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Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County (天祝藏族自治县 Tiānzhù Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: -ཐེན་ཀྲུའུ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ / then kru bod rigs rang skyong khul)) is in the prefecture-level city of Wuwei in the Chinese province of Gansu. It has an area of 7,147km² and approximately 230,000 inhabitants (2003). Its administrative seat ("capital") is the town of Huazangsi.

[edit] Ethnic groups in Tianzhu, 2000 census

Nationality	Population	Percentage
Han	139,190	62.88%
Tibetan	66,125	29.87%
Tu	12,633	5.71%
Hui	1,986	0.9%
Mongol	961	0.43%
Manchu	213	0.1%
Dongxiang	90	0.04%
Uyghur	40	0.02%
Miao	23	0.01%
Others	86	0.04%

[edit] Further reading

A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 2. The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3