Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
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The Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie transliteration: rnga ba bod rigs dang ch'ang rigs rang skyong khul; Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; Pinyin: Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu) is an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, whose capital is Barkam. It has an area of 83,201 km².
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[edit] Demographics
As of 2000, the prefecture's population was 847,468 inhabitants at a density of 10.19 per km²:
| Ethnic group | Population | Proportion of total |
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| Tibetan | 455,238 | 53.72% |
| Han | 209,270 | 24.69% |
| Qiang | 154,905 | 18.28% |
| Hui | 26,353 | 3.11% |
| Manju | 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% |
[edit] Languages
The three principal languages are Tibetan, Jiarong and Qiang.
[edit] History
The Ngawa Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was established in 1956. It was renamed Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in 1987.
[edit] Administrative divisions
The region is composed of thirteen counties:
| County | Administrative centre |
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| Name | Chinese name |
Name | Chinese name |
| Barkam | 马尔康县 | Barkam town | 马尔康镇 a |
| Jiuzhaigou | 九寨沟县 | Yongle | 永乐镇 |
| Hongyuan | 红原县 | Qiongxi | 邛溪镇 |
| Wenchuan | 汶川县) | Weizhou | 威州镇 |
| Ngawa | 阿坝县 | Aba | 阿坝镇) |
| Li | 理县 | Zagu'nao | 杂谷脑镇 |
| Zoigê | 若尔盖县 | Dagcagoin | 达扎寺镇 |
| Xiaojin | 小金县 | Meixing | 美兴镇 |
| Heishui | 黑水县 | Luhua | 芦花镇 |
| Jinchuan | 金川县 | Jinchuan | 金川镇 |
| Sungqu | 松潘县 b | Jin'an | 进安镇 |
| Zamtang | 壤塘县 | Zamkog | 壤柯镇 |
| Mao county | 茂县 | Fengyi | 凤仪镇 |
| a Pinyin: Ma'erkang. b "Songpan". |
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[edit] Tourism
Pandas can be found in Wolong (卧龙). Places of interest include Huanglong and Jiuzhaigou Valley.
| Tibetan autonomous areas in the People's Republic of China | ||
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| Tibet Autonomous Region | (consists of Lhasa · Nagqu · Qamdo · Shannan · Xigazê · Ngari · Nyingchi) |  |
| in Gansu Province | Gannan · Tianzhu | |
| in Qinghai Province | Haibei · Hainan · Haixi (Mongols and Tibetans) · Huangnan · Golog · Yushu | |
| in Sichuan Province | Garzê · Ngawa (Tibetans and Qiang) · Muli | |
| in Yunnan Province | Dêqên | |
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See also Political divisions of China
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