Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture

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.

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
Ngawa-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (top centre) in Sichuan
Coordinates (Ngawa Prefecture government): 31.90°N 102.22°E / 31.90; 102.22
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Prefecture seatBarkam (Barkam Town)
Government
  TypeAutonomous prefecture
  CCP SecretaryLiu Ping
  Congress ChairmanLi Weiguo
  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%
Time zoneUTC+08:00 (China Standard)
Area code0837
ISO 3166 codeCN-SC-32
GDP Total¥ 23.4 billion [2013]
GDP Per Capita¥ 16,000
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
Abbreviated as "Aba Prefecture"
Simplified Chinese阿坝州
Traditional Chinese阿壩州
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་

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.

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