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 | |
.png.webp) 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 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10,435 km2 (4,029 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+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
| Climate data for Ngawa County (1981−2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 18.1 (64.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
22.1 (71.8) |
25.7 (78.3) |
26.5 (79.7) |
27.0 (80.6) |
28.0 (82.4) |
27.2 (81.0) |
27.1 (80.8) |
26.4 (79.5) |
17.6 (63.7) |
17.7 (63.9) |
28.0 (82.4) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 3.9 (39.0) |
6.3 (43.3) |
9.6 (49.3) |
13.2 (55.8) |
16.0 (60.8) |
17.9 (64.2) |
20.0 (68.0) |
19.8 (67.6) |
17.2 (63.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
8.3 (46.9) |
4.8 (40.6) |
12.5 (54.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −6.8 (19.8) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
0.8 (33.4) |
4.9 (40.8) |
8.5 (47.3) |
11.4 (52.5) |
11.4 (52.5) |
13.1 (55.6) |
12.3 (54.1) |
9.8 (49.6) |
5.0 (41.0) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
5.5 (41.8) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −14.7 (5.5) |
−11.0 (12.2) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
2.5 (36.5) |
6.3 (43.3) |
7.7 (45.9) |
6.8 (44.2) |
4.8 (40.6) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−2.1 (28.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −29.3 (−20.7) |
−28.4 (−19.1) |
−18.2 (−0.8) |
−9.0 (15.8) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−12.0 (10.4) |
−20.7 (−5.3) |
−26.9 (−16.4) |
−29.3 (−20.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5.2 (0.20) |
8.3 (0.33) |
18.4 (0.72) |
34.5 (1.36) |
87.8 (3.46) |
144.4 (5.69) |
119.9 (4.72) |
110.5 (4.35) |
110.0 (4.33) |
61.9 (2.44) |
7.3 (0.29) |
3.1 (0.12) |
711.3 (28.01) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 55 | 54 | 58 | 60 | 65 | 73 | 76 | 76 | 76 | 73 | 63 | 58 | 66 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[3] | |||||||||||||
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)
Footnotes
- Dorje (2009), pp. 778-781.
- Buckley, Chris. "Tibetan monk burns to death in China protest - group". Reuters. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- 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.