Ngawa County
阿坝县 • རྔ་བ་རྫོང་། • Rrmeabba Ngaba, Aba | |
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Coordinates: 32°54′N 101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Sichuan |
Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
County seat | Ngawa Town |
Area | |
• Total | 10,435 km2 (4,029 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 80,467 |
• Density | 7.7/km2 (20/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 阿坝县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 阿壩縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | རྔ་བ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Qiang name | |||||||
Qiang | Rrmeabba |
Ngawa County (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: rnga ba rdzong, ZYPY: Ngawa Zong, Chinese: 阿坝县; 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.[2]