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Aba

Aba Tibetan & Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Mandarin Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu, or Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, is located in north-western .
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is a small county in Sichuan’s Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, which straddles the confluence of the Min and Zagunao Rivers. county is one of only 4 counties that are the main location of China’s Qiang ethnic group – the others being Lixian, Maoxian and Beichuan.

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Mao County or is a county in Ngawa Prefecture, , China. It has an area of 3,903 and a population of 106,700 as of 2006. 88.9% of the population are Qiang people. The county seat is Fengyi Town.

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is a small town in northern . The city is mostly used as a base-camp for exploring the nearby national parks and Tibetan villages, and is additionally visited for its existing remnants of the old city.

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Zoigê County or Ruo'ergai County is a county of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in , China, bordering to the north. It is the northernmost county of the province.

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Mount Siguniang, or Mount Skubla is the highest mountain of in Western China. It is located in the bordering area of , and in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, .

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Town is a small alpine town on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, nestled in a valley shared between and provinces in China and straddled by two large monastery complexes.

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Ngawa or town is the seat of , within the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern , China. It is located on the Tibetan plateau at an elevation of 3,200 metres.

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is the prefectural capital of Aba Tibetan & Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It is also known as Ma'erkang. The population is largely Han Chinese, although there are also Tibetans living in town and passing through.

Aba

  • Type: Region with 823,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous prefecture
  • Also known as: “A-pa Tibetan Autonomous District”, “A-pa-tsang-tsu Tzu-chih-chou”, “Aba Prefecture”, “Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture”, “Ahpa Tibetan Autonomous Chou”, “Ngawa Prefecture”, “Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture”, “Ngawa Zangzu Zizhizhou”, “Ssu-ch’uan-sheng-tsang-tsu Tzu-chih-ch’u”, “Ssu-ch’uan-sheng-tsang-tsu Tzu-chih-ch’ü”, and “Szechwan Tibetan Autonomous District”
  • Categories: autonomous prefecture and locality
  • Location: , , , ,
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Latitude of center
31.9016° or 31° 54′ 6″ north
Longitude of center
102.2229° or 102° 13′ 23″ east
Population
823,000
Elevation
4,156 metres (13,635 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244075554
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
1818175
Wiki­data ID
Q1012450
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Aba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محافظة نغاوا وتشيانغ التبتية ذاتية الحكم”
  • Basque: “Ngawa Tibetar eta Qiang Prefektura autonomoa”
  • Basque: “Ngawa”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura Autònoma Tibetana i Qiang d’Aba”
  • Cebuano: “Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou”
  • Chinese: “Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu”
  • Chinese: “Ngawa Chōng-cho̍k Kiuⁿ-cho̍k Chū-tī-chiu”
  • Chinese: “阿坝”
  • Chinese: “阿坝州”
  • Chinese: “阿坝藏族羌族自治州”
  • Chinese: “阿坝藏族自治州”
  • Chinese: “阿垻州”
  • Chinese: “阿垻藏族羌族自治州”
  • Chinese: “阿垻藏族自治州”
  • Chinese: “阿壩”
  • Chinese: “阿壩州”
  • Chinese: “阿壩藏族羌族自治州”
  • Czech: “Ngawa”
  • Danish: “Ngawa”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Tibetaanse & Qiang prefectuur Ngawa”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Tibetaanse & Qiang Prefectuur Ngawa”
  • Dutch: “Ngawa”
  • Finnish: “Ngawan tiibetiläisten ja qiangien autonominen prefektuuri”
  • French: “Aba”
  • French: “Ngawa”
  • French: “Préfecture autonome d’Aba”
  • French: “Préfecture autonome tibétaine et qiang d’Aba”
  • French: “Prefecture autonome tibetaine et qiang de Ngawa”
  • French: “Préfecture autonome tibétaine et qiang de Ngawa”
  • French: “Préfecture d’Aba”
  • French: “RNga-ba”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿坝藏族羌族自治州”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿垻藏族羌族自治州”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿壩藏族羌族自治州”
  • German: “Autonomer Bezirk Ngawa der Tibeter und Qiang”
  • German: “Ngawa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-pa Chhong-chhu̍k Kiông-chhu̍k Chhṳ-chhṳ-chû”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngawa Chhòng-chhu̍k Kiông-chhu̍k Chhṳ-chhṳ-chû”
  • Hebrew: “הנציבות האוטונומית נגאווה של הטיבטים והצ’יאנג”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Otonom Tibet dan Qiang Ngawa”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Otonomi Tibet dan Qiang Ngawa”
  • Italian: “prefettura autonoma tibetana e Qiang di Aba”
  • Italian: “Prefettura autonoma tibetana e Qiang di Aba”
  • Italian: “Prefettura autonoma tibetana e qiang di Ngawa”
  • Japanese: “アバ・チベット族チャン族自治州”
  • Japanese: “アパ・チベット族チャン族自治州”
  • Japanese: “アバ州”
  • Japanese: “ガパ・プーリー・チャンリー・ランキョン・クル”
  • Japanese: “ガバ州”
  • Japanese: “ガパ州”
  • Japanese: “ガパ蔵族姜族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガパ蔵族羌族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガパ蔵族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガパ藏族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガワ・チベット族チャン族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガワ・チベット族姜族自治州”
  • Japanese: “ガワ・チベット族羌族自治州”
  • Japanese: “阿壩チベット族チャン族自治州”
  • Japanese: “阿壩チベット族羌族自治州”
  • Japanese: “阿壩蔵族羌族自治州”
  • Japanese: “阿壩藏族羌族自治州”
  • Korean: “아바 티베트족 창족 자치주”
  • Korean: “아바 티베트족·창족 자치주”
  • Korean: “아바티베트족창족 자치주”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngawa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngawa Chōng-cho̍k Kiuⁿ-cho̍k Chū-tī-chiu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ngawa”
  • Norwegian: “Ngawa”
  • Persian: “نگاوا تبت و استان خود مختار کیانگ”
  • Persian: “ولایت خودمختار نگاوا تبتی و کیانگ”
  • Polish: “Ngawa”
  • Russian: “Аба-Тибетско-Цянский автономный округ”
  • Russian: “Аба”
  • Russian: “Нгава-Тибетско-Цянский автономный округ”
  • Spanish: “Aba Tibetana & Qiang”
  • Spanish: “Ngawa Tibetana y Qiang”
  • Spanish: “Ngawa”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autonoma tibetana y qiang de Aba”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autónoma tibetana y qiang de Aba”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autonoma tibetana y qiang de Ngawa”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura autónoma tibetana y qiang de Ngawa”
  • Swahili: “Aba Tibetan na Qiang Autonomous Prefecture”
  • Swedish: “Ngawa”
  • Tibetan: “Aba”
  • Tibetan: “Rnga-ba bod-rigs chavang rigs rang skyong khul”
  • Tibetan: “རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་”
  • Tibetan: “རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།”
  • Tibetan: “རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་”
  • Turkish: “Ngawa Tibet ve Qiang Özerk İli”
  • Ukrainian: “Нгава-Тибетсько-Цянська автономна префектура”
  • Urdu: “نگاوا تبتی اور چیانگ خود مختار پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “A Bá”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu tự trị dân tộc Tạng-Khương Ngawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu tự trị dân tộc Tạng, dân tộc Khương A Bá”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngawa”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿坝藏族羌族自治州”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿垻藏族羌族自治州”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿壩藏族羌族自治州”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Aba”. Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.