Zhouqu County
舟曲县 · འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། Zhugqu, Zhugchu | |
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.png) Zhugqu County (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) and Gansu | |
  Zhugqu Location of the seat in Gansu  Zhugqu Zhugqu (China) | |
| Coordinates (Zhouqu government): 33°47′37″N 104°15′05″E / 33.7936°N 104.2513°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Autonomous prefecture | Gannan |
| County seat | Chengguan (Chêngoin) |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,010 km2 (1,160 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 125,367 |
| • Density | 42/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 746300 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 舟曲县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 舟曲縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Zhugqu County[2][3] (Tibetan: འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།), Zhugchu[3] or Zhouqu (Chinese: 舟曲县) is a county in the eastern extremity of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu Province, China, with the Bailong River flowing through its confines; it borders Sichuan province to the south. In 2010 its population was 134,000 people.[4]
The word "Zhugqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Bailong River.[5]
- ^ "甘南州第七次全国人口普查公报" (in Chinese). Government of Gannan Prefecture. 27 May 2021.
- ^ Fang, Aiqing (2 August 2018). "Answering a higher call". China Daily.
- ^ a b 陈观胜 [Chen Guansheng]; 安才旦 [An Caidan] (2004). 《汉英藏对照常见藏语人名地名词典》 [Dictionary of Common Tibetan Personal and Place Names]. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. p. 372. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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