Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Aba Prefecture
阿坝州 · རྔ་བ་ཁུལ། · Rrmeabba Legea | |
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阿坝藏族羌族自治州 · རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། · Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture | |
Ngawa-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (top centre) in Sichuan | |
| Coordinates (Ngawa Prefecture government): 31°54′N 102°13′E / 31.90°N 102.22°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Prefecture seat | Barkam (Barkam Town) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Autonomous prefecture |
| • CCP Secretary | Xu Zhivin |
| • Congress Chairman | Luo Zhenhua |
| • Governor | Yang Kening |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Nyima Mu |
| Area | |
• Total | 83,201 km2 (32,124 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 895,200 |
| • Density | 11/km2 (28/sq mi) |
| • Major Ethnic Groups | Tibetan−60.2% Han−18.0% Qiang- 18.5% Hui−3.1% |
| GDP | |
| • Total | CN¥ 26.5 billion US$ 4.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 28,647 US$ 4,599 |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
| Area code | 0837 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-SC-32 |
| License Plate Prefix | 川U |
| Website | Aba China |
| Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阿壩藏族羌族自治州 | ||||||
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| Abbreviated as "Aba Prefecture" | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阿坝州 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阿壩州 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། | ||||||
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Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, Wylie: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ang rigs rang skyong khul; Qiang: Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea; simplified Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; traditional Chinese: 阿壩藏族羌族自治州), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest. Its seat is in Barkam, and it has an area of 83,201 km2 (32,124 sq mi). The population was 895,200 by 2022.
The county of Wenchuan in Ngawa is the site of the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in which over 20,000 of its residents died and 40,000 were injured.