| Ngawa | |
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| Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 |
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| Buddhist stupa and houses outside the town of Aba, Sichuan Province, China. | |
| Ngawa Prefecture (yellow), Sichuan (light gray), China (dark gray) | |
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Ngawa
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| Coordinates: | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Prefecture Seat | Barkam |
| Government | |
| • CPC Party Chief | Shi Jun (侍俊) |
| • Governor | Zhang Dongsheng (张东升) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 83,201 km2 (32,124.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 874,000 |
| • Density | 10.5/km2 (27.2/sq mi) |
| • Major Ethnic Groups | Tibetan-53.72% Han-24.69% Qiang- 18.28% |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | ?????? |
| Area code(s) | 0837 |
| GDP Total | ¥ 8.7 billion |
| GDP Per Capita | ¥ 9,758 |
| License Plate Prefix | 川U |
| Website | http://www.abazhou.gov.cn/ |
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| Simplified Chinese | 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阿壩藏族羌族自治州 | ||||||
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| Abbreviated as "Ngawa Prefecture" | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阿坝州 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阿壩州 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ | ||||||
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The Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州) is an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, whose capital is Barkam town (Ch. Ma'erkang). It has an area of 83,201 km².
Ngawa, also known as Ngaba, is the site of the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in which over 20,000 of its residents died.
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As of 2000[update], the prefecture's population was 847,468 inhabitants at a density of 10.19 per km²:
| Ethnic group | Population | Proportion of total |
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| Tibetan | 455,238 | 53.72% |
| Han | 209,270 | 24.69% |
| Qiang | 154,905 | 18.28% |
| Hui | 26,353 | 3.11% |
| Manchu | 373 | 0.04% |
| Miao | 266 | 0.03% |
| Yi | 205 | 0.02% |
| Mongols | 202 | 0.02% |
| Tujia | 182 | 0.02% |
| Bai | 101 | 0.01% |
| Zhuang | 95 | 0.01% |
| others | 278 | 0.03% |
The three principal languages are Tibetan, Mandarin and Qiang.
The region is historically part of the Tibetan region of Amdo.
In contemporary history, most part of Ngawa was under the 16th Administrative Prefecture of Szechwan (Chinese:四川省第十六行政督察區), which was established by the Republic of China (ROC).[1] The People's Republic of China (PRC) defeated ROC troops in this area and established the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan by the end of 1952. It was renamed Ngawa Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in 1956, and Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in 1987.[2]
On May 12, 2008, a major earthquake occurred in Wenchuan County (Tibetan: lung dgu), a county in the southeastern part of this autonomous prefecture. 20,258 people were killed, 45,079 injured, 7,696 missing in the prefecture as of June 6, 2008. [3] [4]
The region is composed of thirteen counties:
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| # | Nme | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2004 est.) |
Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
| 1 | Barkam County | 马尔康县 | Mǎ'ěrkāng Xiàn | འབར་ཁམས་རྫོང་ | 'bar khams rdzong | 50,000 | 6,639 | 8 |
| 2 | Wenchuan County | 汶川县 | Wènchuān Xiàn | ཝུན་ཁྲོན་རྫོང་ | wun khron rdzong | 110,000 | 4,083 | 27 |
| 3 | Li County | 理县 | Lǐ Xiàn | བཀྲ་ཤིང་གླིང་༼ལི་རྫོང་༽ | li rdzong | 40,000 | 4,318 | 9 |
| 4 | Mao County | 茂县 | Mào Xiàn | 110,000 | 4,075 | 27 | ||
| 5 | Songpan County | 松潘县 | Sōngpān Xiàn | ཟུང་ཆུ་རྫོང་ | zung chu rdzong | 70,000 | 8,486 | 8 |
| 6 | Jiuzhaigou County | 九寨沟县 | Jiǔzhàigōu Xiàn | གཟི་ཚ་སྡེ་དགུ་ | 60,000 | 5,286 | 11 | |
| 7 | Jinchuan County | 金川县 | Jīnchuān Xiàn | ཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | chu chen rdzong | 70,000 | 5,524 | 13 |
| 8 | Xiaojin County | 小金县 | Xiǎojīn Xiàn | བཙན་ལྷ་རྫོང་ | btsan lha rdzong | 80,000 | 5,571 | 14 |
| 9 | Heishui County | 黑水县 | Hēishuǐ Xiàn | ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་ | khro chu rdzong | 60,000 | 4,154 | 14 |
| 10 | Zamtang County | 壤塘县 | Rǎngtáng Xiàn | འཛམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ | 'dzam thang rdzong | 30,000 | 6,836 | 4 |
| 11 | Aba County | 阿坝县 | Ābà Xiàn | རྔ་བ་རྫོང་ | rnga ba rdzong | 60,000 | 10,435 | 6 |
| 12 | Zoigê County | 若尔盖县 | Ruò'ěrgài Xiàn | མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་ | mdzod dge rdzong | 70,000 | 10,437 | 7 |
| 13 | Hongyuan County | 红原县 | Hóngyuán Xiàn | རྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་ | rka khog rdzong | 40,000 | 8,398 | 5 |
Tourism produced 71.0% of the GDP of the prefecture in 2006.[5] There are many places of interest in the prefecture. For example
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