Hongyuan County

Hongyuan County
Hongyuan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	红原县
Traditional Chinese	紅原縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Hóngyuán Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	hung4jyun4 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།; སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།; ཧུང་ཡོན་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	rka khog rdzong or; rka chu rdzong or; hung yon rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Gakog Zong or; Gaqu Zong or; Hungyoin Zong

Hongyuan County

红原县 • སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
Gakog, Gaqu, Hungyoin
Hongyuan County 红原县 • སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། Gakog, Gaqu, Hungyoin
County
	Five Flowers Lake
	Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
	Hongyuan Location in Sichuan Hongyuan Hongyuan (China)
	Coordinates: 32°52′35″N 102°32′24″E / 32.87639°N 102.54000°E
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Ngawa
County seat	Kyungqu
Area
• Total	8,398 km2 (3,242 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	46,644
• Density	5.6/km2 (14/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.hongyuan.gov.cn

Gakog (Hongyuan) County (Tibetan: སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། or སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 红原县) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. There is a river called Ka Chu/Gaqu (སྐ་ཆུ།) in the area and kog means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the Ga River.^[2]

This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely yak herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is 3,600 m (11,800 ft). About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside (2004) mostly Amdo Tibetan. The language is spoken is one of the most conservative dialect among the Amdo Tibetan varieties. The county seat is Kyungqu [zh] (a.k.a. Khyungchu).

Southwest University for Nationalities maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County.^[3]

The country is served by Aba Hongyuan Airport.

^ "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Kakhok | Shanti Knowledge Maps". mandala.shanti.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
^ "About Us Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.

[1] "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "Kakhok | Shanti Knowledge Maps". mandala.shanti.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-18.

[3] "About Us Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.

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