Nangqên County
Nangqên County
囊谦县 · ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། Nangchen | |
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Location of Nangqên County (red) within Yushu Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 32°12′11″N 96°28′52″E / 32.203°N 96.481°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Yushu |
| County seat | Xangda |
| Area | |
• Total | 12,741 km2 (4,919 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 90,307 |
| • Density | 7.1/km2 (18/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 815200 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 囊谦县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 囊謙縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Nangqên County, or Nangchen (Tibetan: ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 囊谦县), is currently a county of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is the southernmost county-level division of Qinghai province, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. Until 1951, the region was known as the Kingdom of Nangchen. It was one of the five kingdoms of the historical region of Do Kham.
The county seat is Xangda, built in a side valley and on the right bank of the Dza Chu (upper reaches of the Mekong). In 2000, the county's population amounted to 57,387 people, inhabiting a surface of 11,539 km2 (4,455 sq mi).