Ngawa (Autonomous District)
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Tibetan script :
རྔ་ བ་ བོད་ རིགས་ ཆ་ བ ༹ ང་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ ཁུལ་
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Wylie transliteration : rnga ba bod rigs dang ch'ang rigs
rang skyong khul |
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
ŋawa ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Ngawa
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Traditional :
阿壩 藏族 羌族 自治州
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Simplified :
阿坝 藏族 羌族 自治州
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Pinyin : Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu
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The Ngawa Autonomous District of the Tibetans and Qiang is located in the north of the Chinese province of Sichuan and is partly part of the eastern Tibetan cultural region Amdo , partly part of the Gyarong region , which in turn is considered by many to be part of Kham . Its administrative seat is the large community of Barkam in the district of the same name. Ngawa has an area of 83,201 km².
Administrative structure
Thirteen districts are subordinate to the autonomous district:
| Surname | Tibetan | Wylie | Chinese | Pinyin | main place |
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| Barkam | འབར་ ཁམས ། | 'bar khams | 马尔康 县 | Mǎ'ěrkāng Xiàn | Barkam ( 马尔康 镇 ) |
| Jiuzhaigou | རྣམ་ འཕེལ | rnam 'phel | 九寨沟 县 | Jiǔzhàigōu Xiàn | Yongle ( 永乐 镇 ) |
| Hongyuan (Gakog) | རྐ་ ཁོག | rka khog | 红 原 县 | Hóngyuán Xiàn | Qiongxi ( 邛 溪镇 ) |
| Wenchuan (Lunggu) | ལུང་ དགུ ། | lung dgu | 汶川县 | Wènchuān Xiàn | Weizhou ( 威 州镇 ) |
| Ngawa | རྔ་ བ ། | rnga ba | 阿坝 县 | Ābà Xiàn | Ngawa ( 阿坝 镇 ) |
| Li (Zhaxiling) | བཀྲ་ ཤིས་ གླིང ། | bkra shis gling | 理 县 | Lǐ Xiàn | Zagu'nao ( 杂 谷 脑 镇 ) |
| Zoige | མཛོད་ དགེ ། | mdzod dge | 若尔盖 县 | Ruò'ěrgài Xiàn | Dagcagoin ( 达扎 寺镇 ) |
| Xiaojin (Zainlha) | བཙན་ ལྷ ། | btsan lha | 小金县 | Xiǎojīn Xiàn | Meixing ( 美 兴镇 ) |
| Heishui (Choqu) | ཁྲོ་ ཆུ ། | khro chu | 黑水 县 | Hēishuǐ Xiàn | Luhua ( 芦花 镇 ) |
| Jinchuan (Quqên) | ཆུ་ ཆེན ། | chu chen | 金川县 | Jīnchuān Xiān | Jinchuan ( 金 川镇 ) |
| Sungqu | ཟུང་ ཆུ ། | zung chu | 松潘 县 | Sōngpān Xiàn | Jin'an ( 进 安镇 ) |
| Zamtang | འཛམ་ ཐང ། | 'dzam thang | 壤 塘 县 | Rǎngtáng Xiàn | Zamkog ( 壤 柯 镇 ) |
| Mao | མའོ་ ཝུན ། | ma'o wun | 茂县 | Mào Xiàn | Fengyi ( 凤仪 镇 ) |
Ethnic breakdown of the population
In the 2000 census, Ngawa had 847,468 inhabitants (population density: 10.19 inh / km²).
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Tibetans | 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% |
Earthquake in 2008
The epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake on May 12, 2008 was in Wenchuan County, in the extreme southeast of Ngawa.
See also
literature
- Andreas Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces: Amdo, vol. 2: The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo . White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001.
Web links
Commons : Ngawa (autonomous district) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Coordinates: 31 ° 54 ' N , 102 ° 13' E
