Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
30°02′58″N 101°57′44″E / 30.0495°N 101.9623°E
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
甘孜州 | |
|---|---|
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese characters | 甘孜藏族自治州 (abbreviation: 甘孜州) |
| • Hanyu pinyin | Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu (abbreviation: Gānzī Zhōu) |
| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| • Tibetan script | དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་། |
| • Wylie transliteration | dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul |
| • Tibetan pinyin | Garzê Poirig Ranggyong Kü |
Location of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Prefecture seat | Kangding |
| Government | |
| • Type | Autonomous prefecture |
| • CCP Secretary | Liu Chengming |
| • Congress Chairman | Xiang Qiu |
| • Governor | Xiao Youcai |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Shu Dachun |
| Area | |
• Total | 147,681.37 km2 (57,020.10 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
• Total | 1,107,431 |
| • Density | 7.5/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | CN¥ 21.3 billion US$ 3.4 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 18,423 US$ 2,958 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-SC-33 |
| Website | www |
| Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Chinese | 甘孜藏族自治州 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Abbreviation | |||||||
| Chinese | 甘孜州 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་། | ||||||
| |||||||
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the north and northwest.
The prefecture's area is 151,078 square kilometres (58,332 sq mi). The population is approximately 880,000, with Tibetans accounting for 77.8% of the total population. The capital city of Garzê is Kangding (Dartsedo).