Muli (Liangshan)

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : སྨི་ ལི་ བོད་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ རྫོང
Wylie transliteration : smi li bod rigs rank skyong rdzong
Pronunciation in IPA : [ mili ]
Official transcription of the PRCh : Mule
THDL transcription : Mili
Other spellings: Mule
Chinese name
Traditional : 木里藏族自治縣
Simplified : 木里藏族自治县
Pinyin : Mùlǐ Zàngzú zìzhìxiàn

Location of Muli County (pink) in Liangshan District (yellow) in Sichuan Province

The Autonomous District Muli Tibetan Autonomous County is located in the Liangshan Yi, in the Chinese province of Sichuan . Muli has an area of 13,252 km² and approx. 130,000 inhabitants (2003). Its administrative seat (main town) is the large municipality of Qiaowa.

Administrative structure

At the community level, Muli is composed of one large community, twenty-three communities and five nationality communities:

Greater community Qiaowa (乔瓦镇);
Wachang municipality (瓦厂镇), formerly Tarba municipality (桃巴乡);
Greater community Chabulang (茶布朗镇);
Greater community Yalong River (雅砻江镇), formerly parish Migdoirang (麦地龙乡);
Baisi municipality (麦日乡);
Boikü municipality (博科乡);
Community Bo'og (博窝乡);
Donglang municipality (东朗乡);
Community Dongzi (东子乡);
Community Housuo (后所乡);
Kala municipality (卡拉乡);
Ke'er municipality (克尔乡);
Liwa Township (列瓦乡);
Community Liziping (李子坪乡);
Luobo municipality (倮波乡);
Maoniuping municipality (牦牛坪乡);
Ninglang Township (宁郎乡);
Community Sakayag (三桷垭乡);
Community Shawan (沙湾乡);
Tangyang Township (唐央乡);
Community Xiaomaidi (下麦地乡);
Community Xiqiu (西秋乡);
Community Xolo (水洛乡);
Community Yazu (芽祖乡);
Yiji Township (依吉乡);
Community Eya the Naxi (俄亚纳西族乡);
Community Baidiao the Miao (白碉苗族乡);
Guzeng der Miao parish (固增苗族乡);
Community Wujiao the Mongols (屋脚蒙古族乡);
Xiangjiao Municipality of the Mongols (项脚蒙古族乡).

Ethnic breakdown of the population of Mulis (2000)

The census in 2000 counted 124,462 inhabitants in Muli (population density 9.39 inhabitants / km²).

Name of the people	Residents	proportion of
Tibetans	40,312	32.39%
Yi	34,489	27.71%
Han	27.199	21.85%
Miao	8,371	6.73%
Mongols	8,035	6.46%
Naxi	4,317	3.47%
Bouyei	988	0.79%
Zhuang	403	0.32%
Lisu	124	0.1%
Hui	91	0.07%
Bai	91	0.07%
Manchu	15th	0.01%
Others	27	0.02%

Muli (Liangshan)

Administrative structure

Ethnic breakdown of the population of Mulis (2000)

See also