Wenchuan County
Wenchuan County
汶川县 · ཝུན་ཁྲོན་རྫོང་། · Kvusa | |
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Wenchuan panorama in 2013 | |
Location of Wenchuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Coordinates: 31°28′37″N 103°35′24″E / 31.477°N 103.590°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| County seat | Weizhou |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,804 km2 (1,855 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 82,971 |
| • Density | 17/km2 (45/sq mi) |
| • Major nationalities | Qiang - 39.5% Han - 38.7% Tibetan - 20.4% Hui - 1.1% Others - 0.3% |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 623000 |
| Area code | 0837 |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese | 汶川 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཝུན་ཁྲོན། | ||||||
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| Qiang | Kvusa | ||||||
Wenchuan County is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China.
The county has an area of 4,084 square kilometres (1,577 sq mi), and a population of 100,771 as of 2010.
Wolong National Nature Reserve is a protected area located in Wenchuan County, which houses more than 150 highly endangered giant pandas. The Wolong Special Administrative Region is also located here.
The county was the site of the epicentre and one of the areas most severely hit by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, also known as the Wenchuan earthquake.