Nagqu Prefecture
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Nagqu Prefecture (or Nagchu; Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Nag-chu Sa-khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: Nàqū Dìqū) is the largest prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. As of 2001 Nagqu has a population of 363,000 and has a total area of 450,537 km². The prefecture is divided into 11 different counties and Nagchu County contains the capital of Nagqu.
[edit] County divisions of the Nagqu Prefecture
- Nagchu County ནག་ཆུ་རྫོང་ nag chu rdzong
- Lhari County ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་ lha ri rdzong
- Biru County འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་ 'bri ru rdzong
- Nyainrong County གཉན་རོང་རྫོང་ gnyan rong rdzong
- Amdo County ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་ a mdo rdzong
- Xainza County ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་ shan rtsa rdzong
- Sog County སོག་རྫོང་ sog rdzong
- Baingoin County དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་ dpal mgon rdzong
- Baqên County སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ sbra chen rdzong
- Nyima County ཉི་མ་རྫོང་ nyi ma rdzong
- Shuanghu Special District མཚོ་གཉིས་དོན་གཅོད་ཁྲུའུ་ mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u