Barkam (town)

Barkam
马尔康镇 · འབར་ཁམས་རྡལ། · Muerkvua zhen
Overview of the town of Barkam
Barkam
Location in Sichuan
Coordinates: 31°54′07″N 102°13′03″E / 31.9019°N 102.2175°E / 31.9019; 102.2175
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceSichuan
PrefectureNgawa
County-level cityBarkam
Postal code
624000
Area code837
Barkam
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese马尔康
Traditional Chinese馬爾康
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMǎ'ěrkāng
Tibetan name
Tibetanའབར་ཁམས།
Transcriptions
Wylie'bar khams
Tibetan PinyinBarkam

Barkam (simplified Chinese: 马尔康镇; traditional Chinese: 馬爾康鎮; pinyin: Mǎ'ěrkāng Zhèn, Standard Tibetan:  འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་རྡལ།, romanized: ʼbar khams grong rdal, Qiang: Bbadh kangw seqea) is a town in and the seat of the county-level city of Barkam, in the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in the northwest of Sichuan province, China.