Ngawa County

Ngawa County
Ngawa County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	阿おもね坝县
Traditional Chinese	阿おもね壩縣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Ābà Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	rnga ba rdzong
Tibetan Pinyin	Ngawa Zong
Qiang name
Qiang	Rrmeabba

Ngawa County

阿おもね坝县 • རྔ་བ་རྫོང་། • Rrmeabba
Ngaba, Aba
Ngawa County 阿おもね坝县 • རྔ་བ་རྫོང་། • Rrmeabba Ngaba, Aba
County
	People of Ngawa County
	Location of Ngawa County (red) within Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
	Ngawa Location of the seat in Sichuan Ngawa Ngawa (China)
	Coordinates: 32°54′N 101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°E
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Ngawa
County seat	Ngawa Town
Area
• Total	10,435 km2 (4,029 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	80,467
• Density	7.7/km2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.abaxian.gov.cn

Ngawa County (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: rnga ba rdzong, ZYPY: Ngawa Zong, Chinese: 阿おもね坝县; 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

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)	阿おもね坝镇	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)	麦むぎ尔玛镇	Mài'ěrmǎ Zhèn	རྨེའུ་རུ་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	rmevu ru ma grong rdal	513231102
Zhocog Town (Hocig, Hezhi)	河かわ支ささえ镇	Hézhī Zhèn	སྤྲོ་ཚོགས་གྲོང་རྡལ།	spro tshogs grong rdal	513231103
Gomang Town (Gemo)	各かく莫镇	Gèmò Zhèn	སྒོ་མང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sgo mang grong rdal	513231104
Akam Town (Ankyam, Anqiang)	安やす羌镇	Ānqiāng Zhèn	ཨ་གམས་གྲོང་རྡལ།	a gams grong rdal	513231105
Townships
Mêugor Township (Mêgor, Maikun)	麦むぎ昆こん乡	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)	求もとめ吉きち玛乡	Qiújímǎ Xiāng	ཆོས་རྗེ་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།	chos rje ma yul tsho	513231204
Suwa Township (Siwa)	四よん洼乡	Sìwā Xiāng	བསུ་བ་ཤང་།	bsu ba shang	513231208
Andü Township (Andou)	安やす斗と乡	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)	茸たけ安やす乡	Róng'ān Xiāng	རོང་ཝམ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།	rong wam yul tsho	513231214

Footnotes

^ "阿おもね坝州第だい七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市し）人口じんこう情じょう况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
^ Dorje (2009), pp. 778-781.
^ Buckley, Chris. "Tibetan monk burns to death in China protest - group". Reuters. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
^ 中国ちゅうごく气象数すう据すえ网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
^ 中国ちゅうごく气象数すう据すえ网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

References

*Dorje, Gyurme (2009). Footprint Tibet Handbook. Footprint Books. ISBN 978-1-906098-32-2.

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[1] "阿おもね坝州第だい七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市し）人口じんこう情じょう况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.

[2] Dorje (2009), pp. 778-781.

[Reut3-16-11-3] Buckley, Chris. "Tibetan monk burns to death in China protest - group". Reuters. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2012.

[cma_graphical-4] 中国ちゅうごく气象数すう据すえ网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

[5] 中国ちゅうごく气象数すう据すえ网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

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