Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture

Aba Prefecture
阿坝州 · རྔ་བ་ཁུལ། · Rrmeabba Legea
阿坝藏族羌族自治州 · རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། · Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Jiuzhaigou National Park
Ngawa-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (top centre) in Sichuan
Ngawa-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (top centre) in Sichuan
Coordinates (Ngawa Prefecture government): 31°54′N 102°13′E / 31.90°N 102.22°E / 31.90; 102.22
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Prefecture seatBarkam (Barkam Town)
Government
 • TypeAutonomous prefecture
 • CCP SecretaryXu Zhivin
 • Congress ChairmanLuo Zhenhua
 • GovernorYang Kening
 • CPPCC ChairmanNyima Mu
Area
 • Total83,201 km2 (32,124 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total895,200
 • Density11/km2 (28/sq mi)
 • Major Ethnic Groups
Tibetan−60.2%
Han−18.0%
Qiang- 18.5%
Hui−3.1%
GDP[1]
 • TotalCN¥ 26.5 billion
US$ 4.3 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 28,647
US$ 4,599
Time zoneUTC+08:00 (China Standard)
Area code0837
ISO 3166 codeCN-SC-32
License Plate Prefix川U
WebsiteAba China
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese阿坝藏族羌族自治州
Traditional Chinese阿壩藏族羌族自治州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinĀbà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Abbreviated as "Aba Prefecture"
Simplified Chinese阿坝州
Traditional Chinese阿壩州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinĀbà Zhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།
Transcriptions
Wylienga ba bod rigs dang chang rigs rang skyong khul
Tibetan PinyinNgawa Poirig Qangrig Ranggyong Kü

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, Wylie: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ang rigs rang skyong khul; Qiang: Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea; simplified Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; traditional Chinese: 阿壩藏族羌族自治州), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest. Its seat is in Barkam, and it has an area of 83,201 km2 (32,124 sq mi). The population was 895,200 by 2022.[2]

The county of Wenchuan in Ngawa is the site of the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in which over 20,000 of its residents died and 40,000 were injured.

  1. ^ 四川省统计局、国家统计局四川调查总队 (September 2016). 《四川统计年鉴-2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7871-1.
  2. ^ "阿坝藏族羌族自治州2022年国民经济和社会发展统计公报_阿坝藏族羌族自治州统计局" [Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 2022 National Economic and Social Development Statistics]. 阿坝州统计局 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-02-05.