Barkam
Barkam 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.
- Type: Town
- Description: town in Ngawa, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Ma’erkang”, “Ma’erkang Town”, and “马尔康”
Barkam
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Aba, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.9043° or 31° 54′ 16″ north
Longitude
102.2177° or 102° 13′ 4″ east
Open location code
8P34W639+P3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Barkam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باركام”
- Asturian: “Barkam”
- Bengali: “বারকাম”
- Chinese: “mǎěrkāng zhèn”
- Chinese: “马尔康镇”
- Danish: “Barkam”
- Dutch: “Barkam”
- Finnish: “Barkam”
- French: “Barkam”
- Gan Chinese: “马尔康镇”
- Greek: “Μπάρκαμ”
- Gujarati: “બરકામ”
- Hindi: “बरकाम”
- Indonesian: “Barkam”
- Italian: “Barkam”
- Japanese: “馬爾康鎮”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ಕಮ್”
- Korean: “바르캄”
- Latvian: “Barkama”
- Lithuanian: “Barkamas”
- Malay: “Barkam”
- Marathi: “बरकाम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barkam”
- Persian: “بارکام تاون”
- Polish: “Barkam”
- Portuguese: “Barkam”
- Russian: “Баркам (Маэркан)”
- Sinhala: “බර්කම්”
- Spanish: “Barkam”
- Swedish: “Barkam”
- Tamil: “பார்க்கம்”
- Telugu: “బర్కం”
- Tibetan: “འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Turkish: “Barkam”
- Ukrainian: “Баркам”
- Urdu: “بارکام”
- Vietnamese: “Barkam”
- Welsh: “Barkam”
- Wu Chinese: “马尔康镇”
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