Barkam
Barkam
马尔康市 · འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། · Muerkvua shi Ma'erkang | |
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Overview of the city of Barkam | |
Barkam City (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Coordinates (Barkam municipal government): 31°54′21″N 102°12′23″E / 31.9057°N 102.2065°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| Seat | Barkam Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,639 km2 (2,563 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,615 m (8,579 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 58,390 |
| • Density | 8.8/km2 (23/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 624000 |
| Area code | 0837 |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马尔康 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬爾康 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | འབར་ཁམས། | ||||||
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| Qiang name | |||||||
| Qiang | Muerkvua | ||||||
Barkam or Markang or Muerkvua is a county-level city in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in the northwest of Sichuan province, China. The city seat is the town of Barkam. As of the 2010 Chinese Census, Barkam has a population of 58,437.