Ngawa County

Ngawa County
阿坝县རྔ་བ་རྫོང་། • Rrmeabba
Ngaba, Aba
People of Ngawa County
People of Ngawa County
Location of Ngawa County (red) within Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Location of Ngawa County (red) within Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Ngawa is located in Sichuan
Ngawa
Ngawa
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Ngawa is located in China
Ngawa
Ngawa
Ngawa (China)
Coordinates: 32°54′N 101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°E / 32.900; 101.700
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
County seatNgawa Town
Area
 • Total10,435 km2 (4,029 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total80,467
 • Density7.7/km2 (20/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.abaxian.gov.cn
Ngawa County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese阿坝县
Traditional Chinese阿壩縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinĀbà Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྔ་བ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliernga ba rdzong
Tibetan PinyinNgawa Zong
Qiang name
QiangRrmeabba

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]

  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. ^ Dorje (2009), pp. 778-781.