Ngawa County
阿坝县 • རྔ་བ་རྫོང་། • Rrmeabba
Ngaba, Aba
County
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
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྔ་བ་རྫོང་།
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]

Self-immolation incident

Main article: Phuntsog self-immolation incident

On 16 March 2011 a 20-year-old Tibetan monk called Phuntsok set fire to himself at a market, in protest against allegedly repressive government policies in Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan populated areas in China.[3] He died in hospital early in the morning of 17 March. Following Phuntsok's self-immolation, hundreds of monks from the same monastery, Kirti monastery in Ngaba County, and other local residents staged another protest.

Climate

Climate data for Ngawa County, elevation 3,275 m (10,745 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 18.1
(64.6) 		19.1
(66.4) 		22.1
(71.8) 		25.7
(78.3) 		26.5
(79.7) 		27.0
(80.6) 		28.0
(82.4) 		27.2
(81.0) 		27.1
(80.8) 		26.4
(79.5) 		17.6
(63.7) 		17.7
(63.9) 		28.0
(82.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 4.5
(40.1) 		7.0
(44.6) 		10.0
(50.0) 		13.8
(56.8) 		16.3
(61.3) 		18.2
(64.8) 		20.4
(68.7) 		20.4
(68.7) 		17.8
(64.0) 		13
(55) 		8.9
(48.0) 		5.2
(41.4) 		13.0
(55.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) −6.3
(20.7) 		−3.0
(26.6) 		1.2
(34.2) 		5.5
(41.9) 		8.8
(47.8) 		11.7
(53.1) 		13.4
(56.1) 		12.9
(55.2) 		10.3
(50.5) 		5.2
(41.4) 		−0.8
(30.6) 		−5.5
(22.1) 		4.5
(40.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −14.2
(6.4) 		−10.7
(12.7) 		−5.4
(22.3) 		−1.1
(30.0) 		2.9
(37.2) 		6.7
(44.1) 		8.0
(46.4) 		7.3
(45.1) 		5.3
(41.5) 		0.2
(32.4) 		−7.2
(19.0) 		−12.7
(9.1) 		−1.7
(28.9)
Record low °C (°F) −29.3
(−20.7) 		−28.4
(−19.1) 		−18.2
(−0.8) 		−9.0
(15.8) 		−5.2
(22.6) 		−1.3
(29.7) 		−0.2
(31.6) 		−1.5
(29.3) 		−3.5
(25.7) 		−12.0
(10.4) 		−20.7
(−5.3) 		−26.9
(−16.4) 		−29.3
(−20.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 4.9
(0.19) 		9.5
(0.37) 		22.9
(0.90) 		36.1
(1.42) 		96.9
(3.81) 		139.8
(5.50) 		120.6
(4.75) 		108.0
(4.25) 		108.2
(4.26) 		60.7
(2.39) 		8.1
(0.32) 		2.9
(0.11) 		718.6
(28.27)
Average precipitation days 3.9 6.0 10.1 13.4 20.9 22.6 20.4 18.8 20.0 16.7 4.5 3.0 160.3
Average snowy days 5.9 8.2 13.9 10.6 3.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 6.4 7.3 4.5 61
Average relative humidity (%) 55 54 58 60 65 72 75 75 75 73 64 58 65
Mean monthly sunshine hours 212.8 190.4 211.8 220.3 211.6 177.5 204.9 203.2 180.4 190.2 216.1 223.8 2,443
Percent possible sunshine 67 61 57 56 49 42 47 50 49 55 70 72 56
Source: China Meteorological Administration[4][5]

Administrative divisions

Ngawa County comprises 6 towns and 9 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Ngawa Town
(Aba) 		阿坝镇 Ābà Zhèn རྔ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rnga ba grong rdal 513231100
Jialuo Town
(Jialuo) 		贾洛镇 Jiǎluò Zhèn གཅའ་རུ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། gcav ru grong brdal 513231101
Miuruma Town
(Meruma, Mai'erma) 		麦尔玛镇 Mài'ěrmǎ Zhèn རྨེའུ་རུ་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rmevu ru ma grong rdal 513231102
Zhocog Town
(Hocig, Hezhi) 		河支镇 Hézhī Zhèn སྤྲོ་ཚོགས་གྲོང་རྡལ། spro tshogs grong rdal 513231103
Gomang Town
(Gemo) 		各莫镇 Gèmò Zhèn སྒོ་མང་གྲོང་རྡལ། sgo mang grong rdal 513231104
Akam Town
(Ankyam, Anqiang) 		安羌镇 Ānqiāng Zhèn ཨ་གམས་གྲོང་རྡལ། a gams grong rdal 513231105
Townships
Mêugor Township
(Mêgor, Maikun) 		麦昆乡 Màikūn Xiāng རྨེའུ་སྐོར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rmevu skor yul tsho 513231201
Loincang Township
(Longzang) 		龙藏乡 Lóngzàng Xiāng བློན་ཚང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། blon tshang yul tsho 513231203
Qoijêma Township
(Qiujima) 		求吉玛乡 Qiújímǎ Xiāng ཆོས་རྗེ་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། chos rje ma yul tsho 513231204
Suwa Township
(Siwa) 		四洼乡 Sìwā Xiāng བསུ་བ་ཤང་། bsu ba shang 513231208
Andü Township
(Andou) 		安斗乡 Āndǒu Xiāng ཨ་འདུས་ཡུལ་ཚོ། a vdus yul tsho 513231209
Kogbo Township
(Kehe) 		柯河乡 Kēhé Xiāng ཁོག་པོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། khog po yul tsho 513231210
Karsar Township
(Karsa, Kuasha) 		垮沙乡 Kuǎshā Xiāng མཁར་སར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། mkhar sar yul tsho 513231211
Cainxi Township
(Chali) 		查理乡 Chálǐ Xiāng མཚན་ཞིད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། mtshan zhid yul tsho 513231213
Rongwam Township
(Rong'an) 		茸安乡 Róng'ān Xiāng རོང་ཝམ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rong wam yul tsho 513231214

Footnotes

  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.
  3. ^ Buckley, Chris. "Tibetan monk burns to death in China protest - group". Reuters. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  5. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

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