Ngawa County

Ngawa County (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: rnga ba rdzong, ZYPY: 'Ngawa Zong' , simplified Chinese: 阿坝县; traditional Chinese: 阿壩縣; pinyin: Ābà Xiàn), or Aba or Ngaba, is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the remote northwestern part of the prefecture, on the border with Qinghai (to the northwest) and Gansu (to the north). The county seat is Ngawa Town.[1]

Ngawa County

阿坝县རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།
People of Ngawa County
Location of Ngawa County (red) within Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Ngawa
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Coordinates: 32°54′N 101°42′E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
Area
  Total10,435 km2 (4,029 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Self-immolation incident

On 16 March 2011 a 20-year-old Tibetan monk called Phuntsok set fire to himself at a market, in protest against allegedly repressive government policies in Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan populated areas in China.[2] He died in hospital early in the morning of 17 March. Following Phuntsok's self-immolation, hundreds of monks from the same monastery, Kirti monastery in Ngaba County, and other local residents staged another protest.

Climate

Administrative divisions

Ngawa County(Aba County) has not towns and 4 townships:

  • Towns:
    • -
  • Townships:
    • Andou (安斗乡)
    • Anqiang (安羌乡)
    • Chalisi (查理寺乡)
    • Dege (德格乡)

See also

Footnotes

  1. Dorje (2009), pp. 778-781.
  2. Buckley, Chris. "Tibetan monk burns to death in China protest - group". Reuters. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  3. 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 20 October 2018.

References

  • *Dorje, Gyurme (2009). Footprint Tibet Handbook. Footprint Books. ISBN 978-1-906098-32-2.


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