Songpan County

Songpan County, former Songzhou, is a county of northwestern Sichuan province, China, and is one of the 13 counties administered by the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It has an area of 8,486 square kilometres (3,276 sq mi), and a population of approximately 68,000 composed of Tibetan, Qiang, Han and Hui populations.

Songpan County
松潘县 · ཟུང་ཆུ་རྫོང་། · Ssez
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Location of Songpan County (red) within Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Songpan
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Songpan
Songpan (China)
Coordinates: 32°39′N 103°36′E
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
County seatJin'an
Area
  Total8,486 km2 (3,276 sq mi)
Elevation
2,867 m (9,406 ft)
Population
 (2020)
  Total66,937
  Density7.9/km2 (20/sq mi)
  Major nationalities
Tibetan Han Qiang Hui
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
623300
Area code0837
Websitewww.songpan.gov.cn
Songpan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese松潘县
Traditional Chinese松潘縣
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese松州
Tibetan name
Tibetanཟུང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།
Qiang name
QiangSsez
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