Garzê County
Garzê County
甘孜县 • དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་། Kardze, Ganzi | |
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View of Garzê Town | |
Location of Garzê County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Coordinates: 31°37′23″N 100°00′04″E / 31.623°N 100.001°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Garzê Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,364 km2 (2,843 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 5,688 m (18,661 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 3,325 m (10,909 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 72,698 |
| • Density | 9.9/km2 (26/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 624000 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 甘孜县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 甘孜縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Garzê County or Kardze County (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།, Wylie: dkar mdzes rdzong), called Ganzi County in Chinese (Chinese: 甘孜县; pinyin: Gānzī xiàn), is one of the 18 subdivisions of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in northwestern Sichuan province, China. The Yalong River passes just south of the town Garzê, also known as Ganzi, the capital town of the county, which has some 16,920 inhabitants (2010), many of them ethnic Tibetans, and is famous for its Tibetan lamasery. Historically, it is part of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham and now defunct province of Xikang (or Sikang). It lies on the northern section of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway.