Garzê

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Location Garzês in Sichuan
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
དཀར་ མཛེས་
Wylie transliteration :
dkar mdzes
Official transcription of the PRCh :
Garzê
THDL transcription :
Kardzé
Other spellings:
Karze, Kanze, Kandse, Whole, Gandze
Chinese name
Traditional :
甘孜
Simplified :
甘孜
Pinyin :
Gānzī

The Garzê Autonomous District (also Kardze , Tibetan དཀར་ མཛེས Wylie dkar mdzes ) of the Tibetans ( Chinese  甘孜 藏族 自治州 , Pinyin Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu ) is located in the northwest of the Chinese province of Sichuan and is part of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham . "Kandse" is the Tibetan name in local pronunciation, according to the official phonetic transcription of the PR China for the Tibetan language as "Garzê". Its administrative seat is the Lucheng municipality in the city of Kangding . It used to be known as an important trading center under the names of Kangding, Dartsedo, Darzêdo and Dajianlu (Tatsienlu). Garzê has an area of ​​151,078 km².

Administrative structure

The Lithang Monastery in the Garzê Autonomous District

At the district level, the autonomous district consists of a city and seventeen districts :

Surname Tibetan Wylie Chinese Pinyin main place
Kangding (Darzêdo) དར་ རྩེ་ མདོ ། dar rtse mdo 康定 市 Kāngdìng Shì Lucheng (dar mdo དར་ མདོ་ / Lúchéng 炉 城镇 )
Rongzhag རོང་ བྲག ། rong brag 丹巴 县 Dānbā Xiàn Chaggo (brag sgo བྲག་ སྒོ་ / Zhānggǔ 章 谷 镇 )
Luhuo (Zhaggo) བྲག་ འགོ ། brag 'go 炉霍 县 Luhuò Xiàn Xindu (shis mdor ཤིས་ མདོར་ / Xīndū 新都 镇 )
Jiulong (Gyaisur) བརྒྱད་ ཟིལ ། བརྒྱད་ ཟུར ། brgyad zil / brgyad zur 九龙 县 Jiǔlóng Xiàn Garba (dkar དཀར་ / Xiā'ěr 呷 尔 镇 )
Garzê དཀར་ མཛེས ། dkar mdzes 甘孜 县 Gānzī Xiàn Garzê (Gānzī 甘孜 镇 )
Yajiang (Nyagla) ཉག་ ཆུ་ ཁ ། nyag chu kha 雅 江 县 Yǎjiāng Xiān Hekou (Hékǒu 河口 镇 )
Nyagrong ཉག་ རོང ། nyag rong 新 龙 县 Xīnlóng Xiàn Rinang (Rúlóng 茹 龙镇 )
Dawu རྟའུ ། rta'u 道孚 县 Dàofú Xiàn Xianshui (phyag ru ཕྱག་ རུ་ / Xiǎnshuǐ 鲜 水镇 )
Baiyu དཔལ་ ཡུལ ​​། dpal yul 白玉 县 Báiyù Xiàn Jianshe (Jiànshè 建设 镇, "structure")
Litang ལི་ ཐང ། li thang 理塘 县 Lǐtáng Xiàn Gaocheng (Gāochéng 高 城镇 )
Dêgê སྡེ་ དགེ ། sde dge 德格 县 Dégé Xiàn Geiqê (dgon chen དགོན་ ཆེན་ / Gèngqìng 更 庆 镇 )
Qagchêng ཆ་ ཕྲེང ། cha phreng 乡 城县 Xiàngchéng Xiàn Xambala (Xiāngbālā 香巴拉 镇 )
Sêrxü སེར་ ཤུལ ། ser shul 石渠 县 Shíqú Xiàn Nyongxar (Níxiā 尼 呷 镇 )
Dabba འདབ་ པ ། 'dab pa 稻城 县 Dàochéng Xiàn Jingzhoi (Jīnzhū 金珠 镇 )
Sêrtar གསེར་ ཐར ། gser thar 色 达县 Sèdá Xiàn Sêrkog (gser khog གསེར་ ཁོག་ / Sèkē 色 柯 镇 )
Batang འབའ་ ཐང ། 'ba' thang 巴塘 县 Bātáng Xiàn Qakyung (bya khung བྱ་ ཁུང་ / Xiàqióng 夏 邛 镇 )
Luding ལྕག་ ཟམ ། lcag zam 泸定 县 Lúdìng Xiàn Luqiao (Lúqiáo 泸 桥镇 )
Dêrong སྡེ་ རོང ། sde rong 得 荣县 Déróng Xiàn Sangmai (sangs smad སངས་ སྨད་ / Sōngmài 松麦 镇 )

Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)

In the 2000 census, Garzê had 897,239 inhabitants (population density: 5.94 inh / km²). In the 2010 census, the population was 1,164,900.

Name of the people Residents proportion of
Tibetans 703.168 78.37%
Han 163,648 18.24%
Yi 22,946 2.56%
Qiang 2,860 0.32%
Hui 2,190 0.24%
Naxi 760 0.08%
Mongols 477 0.05%
Bai 292 0.03%
Others 898 0.11%

See also

Web links

Commons : Garzê  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 30 ° 3 '  N , 101 ° 58'  E