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Barkam

Barkam or Maerkang or Muerkvua is a county-level city in , in the northwest part of province, China. The city seat is the town of Barkam. As of the 2010 Chinese Census, Barkam has a population of 58,437.
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  • Type: City with 33,000 residents
  • Description: county-level city
  • Also known as: “Barkam Xian”, “Ma-erh-k’ang”, “maerkang xian”, and “Ssu-t’u”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barkam.

Photo: Philippe Semanaz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the prefectural capital of . It is also known as Ma'erkang. The population is largely Han Chinese, although there are also Tibetans living in town and passing through.

Barkam

Latitude
31.90785° or 31° 54′ 28″ north
Longitude
102.20453° or 102° 12′ 16″ east
Population
33,000
Elevation
2,621 metres (8,599 feet)
Open location code
8P34W653+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 811086332
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1816868
Wiki­data ID
Q808243
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Wu Chinese—“Barkam” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “বারখাম”
  • Bengali: “মা-আরখাং”
  • Cebuano: “Barkam Xian”
  • Chinese: “Barkam-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Mǎ’ěrkāng Shì”
  • Chinese: “馬爾康”
  • Chinese: “馬爾康市”
  • Chinese: “馬爾康縣”
  • Chinese: “马尔康”
  • Chinese: “马尔康市”
  • Czech: “Barkam”
  • Dutch: “Barkam”
  • Finnish: “Barkam”
  • French: “‘Bar-khams”
  • French: “Barkam”
  • French: “Comte de Barkam”
  • French: “Comté de barkam”
  • French: “Comté de Barkam”
  • French: “Comté De Barkam”
  • French: “Ma’erkang”
  • French: “Maerkang”
  • French: “Xian de Barkam”
  • Gan Chinese: “马尔康市”
  • German: “Barkam”
  • German: “Barkham”
  • German: “Ma’erkang”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Barkam-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mâ-ngí-kông-yen”
  • Italian: “Barkam”
  • Japanese: “馬爾康市”
  • Kikuyu: “Barkam”
  • Korean: “마얼캉 시”
  • Korean: “마얼캉시”
  • Korean: “바르캄시”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Barkam-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barkam”
  • Norwegian: “Barkam”
  • Persian: “بارکام”
  • Portuguese: “Barkam”
  • Russian: “Баркам”
  • Spanish: “Barkam”
  • Spanish: “Maerkang”
  • Swedish: “Barkam Xian”
  • Swedish: “Barkam”
  • Swedish: “Barkham”
  • Tibetan: “འབར་ཁམས་”
  • Turkish: “Barkam”
  • Ukrainian: “Баркам”
  • Urdu: “بارکام کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Barkam”
  • Vietnamese: “Mã Nhĩ Khang (huyện)”
  • Vietnamese: “Mã Nhĩ Khang”
  • Welsh: “Barkam”
  • Wu Chinese: “马尔康市”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Barkam”. Photo: Philippe Semanaz, CC BY-SA 2.0.