Jinchuan County

Jinchuan County
金川县 • ཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Quqên, Dajinchuan
County
Landscape near Jinchuan County
Landscape near Jinchuan County
Location of Jinchuan County (pink) and Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) within Sichuan Province
Location of Jinchuan County (pink) and Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) within Sichuan Province
Jinchuan is located in Sichuan
Jinchuan
Jinchuan
Location in Sichuan
Jinchuan is located in China
Jinchuan
Jinchuan
Jinchuan (China)
Coordinates: 31°28′34″N 102°03′50″E / 31.476°N 102.064°E / 31.476; 102.064
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
SeatDowu (Lewu)
Area
 • Total5,524 km2 (2,133 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total58,068
 • Density11/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.abjinchuan.gov.cn
Jinchuan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese金川县
Traditional Chinese金川縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJīnchuān Xiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinggam1 cyun1 jyun6
Tibetan name
Tibetanཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliechu chen rdzong
Tibetan PinyinQuqên Zong

Jinchuan County or Quqên (Tibetan: ཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 金川县) is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. The seat of county is Dowu Town (Lewu[a]).

The county spans an area of 5,524 square kilometers, and has a population of about 73,000 as of 2019.[3]

  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.
  2. ^ Government of Ngawa Prefecture. "勒乌镇".
  3. ^ 金川概况 (in Chinese). Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture People's Government. 2019-09-06. Archived from the original on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2020-10-02.


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