Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
| Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture |
| Chinese name |
| Chinese |
甘孜藏族自治州 |
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| Abbreviated as "Garzê Prefecture" |
| Chinese |
甘孜州 |
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| Tibetan name |
| Tibetan |
དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ |
| Transcriptions |
| - Wylie |
dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul |
| - Zangwen Pinyin |
Garzê Poirig Ranggyong Kü |
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Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Chinese: 甘孜藏族自治州) is an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan whose capital is Kangding (Dardo). It is sometimes spelled as "Kardze" by non-government sources.
The area is 151,078 square kilometers and the population is approximately 880,000, with Tibetans accounting for 77.8% of the population.
History
Garze was traditionally part of the Tibetan region known as Kham. During the period of rule by the Republic of China (1912–1949), it became nominally part of Xikang province, which included parts of former Kham. In 1930, a Tibetan army invaded Garze, capturing it without much resistance. However, in 1932, the Tibetan army withdrew after suffering defeats elsewhere at the hands of the warlord of Qinghai, Ma Bufang. Chinese warlord Liu Wenhui reoccupied Garze, and signed an agreement with the Tibetans formalizing his control of the area east of the Yangtze River, which corresponds roughly with eastern Kham. In 1950, following the defeat of the Kuomintang forces by the People's Liberation Army, the area fell within the control of the People's Republic of China. Eastern Xikang was merged with Sichuan in 1955, where Garze became an autonomous prefecture.
Subdivisions
Garzê comprises 18 counties:
| Map |
# |
Name |
Hanzi |
Hanyu Pinyin |
Tibetan |
Wylie |
Population
(2004 est.) |
Area (km²) |
Density
(/km²) |
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| 1 |
Kangding County |
康定县 |
Kāngdìng Xiàn |
དར་མདོ་རྫོང་ |
dar mdo rdzong |
110,000 |
11,486 |
10 |
| 2 |
Luding County |
泸定县 |
Lúdìng Xiàn |
ལྕགས་ཟམ་རྫོང་ |
lcags zam rdzong |
80,000 |
2,165 |
37 |
| 3 |
Danba County |
丹巴县 |
Dānbā Xiàn |
རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་ |
rong brag rdzong |
60,000 |
4,656 |
13 |
| 4 |
Jiulong County |
九龙县 |
Jiǔlóng Xiàn |
བརྒྱད་ཟུར་རྫོང་ |
brgyad zur rdzong |
50,000 |
6,766 |
7 |
| 5 |
Yajiang County |
雅江县 |
Yǎjiāng Xiàn |
ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་ |
nyag chu rdzong |
40,000 |
7,558 |
5 |
| 6 |
Dawu County |
道孚县 |
Dàofú Xiàn |
རྟ་འུ་རྫོང་ |
rta 'u rdzong |
50,000 |
7,053 |
7 |
| 7 |
Luhuo County |
炉霍县 |
Lúhuò Xiàn |
བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་ |
brag 'go rdzong |
40,000 |
4,601 |
9 |
| 8 |
Garzê County |
甘孜县 |
Gānzī Xiàn |
དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་ |
dkar mdzes rdzong |
60,000 |
7,303 |
8 |
| 9 |
Xinlong County |
新龙县 |
Xīnlóng Xiàn |
ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་ |
nyag rong rdzong |
40,000 |
8,570 |
5 |
| 10 |
Dêgê County |
德格县 |
Dégé Xiàn |
སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་ |
sde dge rdzong |
70,000 |
11,025 |
6 |
| 11 |
Baiyü County |
白玉县 |
Báiyù Xiàn |
དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་ |
dpal yul rdzong |
40,000 |
10,386 |
4 |
| 12 |
Sêrxü County |
石渠县 |
Shíqú Xiàn |
སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་ |
ser shul rdzong |
60,000 |
24,944 |
2 |
| 13 |
Sêrtar County |
色达县 |
Sèdá Xiàn |
གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་ |
gser thar rdzong |
40,000 |
9,332 |
4 |
| 14 |
Litang County |
理塘县 |
Lǐtáng Xiàn |
ལི་ཐང་རྫོང་ |
li thang rdzong |
50,000 |
13,677 |
4 |
| 15 |
Batang County |
巴塘县 |
Bātáng Xiàn |
འབའ་ཐང་རྫོང་ |
'ba' thang rdzong |
50,000 |
7,852 |
6 |
| 16 |
Xiangcheng County |
乡城县 |
Xiāngchéng Xiàn |
ཕྱག་འཕྲེང་རྫོང་ |
phyag 'phreng rdzong |
30,000 |
5,016 |
6 |
| 17 |
Daocheng County |
稻城县 |
Dàochéng Xiàn |
འདབ་པ་རྫོང་ |
'dab pa rdzong |
30,000 |
7,323 |
4 |
| 18 |
Dêrong County |
得荣县 |
Déróng Xiàn |
སྡེ་རོང་རྫོང་ |
sde rong rdzong |
20,000 |
2,916 |
7 |
Population
According to the census of 2000, Garzê had a population of 897,239 (population density: 5.94 people/km²).
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