Ngawa County

Ngawa County, or Aba or Ngaba, is a county in the northwest of Province, China. It is under the administration of the .
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  • Type: City with 28,800 residents
  • Description: county in Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “A-pa Hsien”, “Aba”, “Aba County”, “aba xian”, “Aba Xian”, “Ngaba”, “Ngawa”, and “阿坝市”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kirti Gompa and Setenling Gompa.

Buddhist temple
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, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in , Sichuan province, in China, but traditionally part of Amdo region. Numerous other associated Kirti monasteries and nunneries are located nearby.

Buddhist temple
, Ser Gompa, is a Jonangpa monastery about a kilometre from the eastern edge of Aba or Ngawa City, the main city in Ngawa County, within the in northwestern , .

Buddhist temple
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Nangzhik Monastery, formerly known by several other names, is a monastery of the Bon religion in Amdo, modern , , . It is about a 4 kilometres walk up a shortcut to reach the monastery on a hill to the north of the town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aba.

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Ngawa or town is the seat of Ngawa County, within the in northwestern , China. It is located on the Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of 3,200 metres.

Ngawa County

Latitude
32.9058° or 32° 54′ 21″ north
Longitude
101.7023° or 101° 42′ 8″ east
Population
28,800
Elevation
3,986 metres (13,077 feet)
Open location code
8P43WP42+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6416739691
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1818176
Wiki­data ID
Q304204
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Satellite Map

Discover Ngawa County from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Ngawa County” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Ngawa Xian”
  • Chechen: “Нгава”
  • Chinese: “Ābà Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “Ngawa-koān”
  • Chinese: “阿坝”
  • Chinese: “阿坝县”
  • Chinese: “阿垻縣”
  • Chinese: “阿壩縣”
  • Dutch: “Ngawa”
  • Estonian: “Aba maakond”
  • Estonian: “Ngawa maakond”
  • French: “Comte de Ngawa”
  • French: “Comté de ngawa”
  • French: “Comté de Ngawa”
  • French: “Comté De Ngawa”
  • French: “Ngawa”
  • French: “xian d’Aba”
  • French: “Xian d’Aba”
  • French: “Xian de Ngawa”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿坝县”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿垻縣”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿壩縣”
  • German: “Ngawa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-pa-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngawa-yen”
  • Italian: “Aba”
  • Italian: “Ngaba”
  • Italian: “Ngawa County”
  • Japanese: “アバ県”
  • Japanese: “阿壩県”
  • Korean: “아바현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngawa-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aba”
  • Norwegian: “Aba”
  • Persian: “ناگاوا”
  • Russian: “Нгава”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Ngawa”
  • Swedish: “Ngawa, Ngawa”
  • Swedish: “Ngawa”
  • Tibetan: “Ngawa”
  • Tibetan: “རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།”
  • Ukrainian: “Нгава”
  • Uzbek: “Ngava okrugi”
  • Vietnamese: “A Bá”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿坝县”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 阿坝县体育中心 and 阿坝县公安局特警大队.

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