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Maoxian

Mao County or Maoxian is a county in , , 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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  • Type: City with 41,000 residents
  • Description: Chinese County of Qiang people in SIchuan province
  • Also known as: “Mao”, “Mao County”, “mao wen qiang zu zi zhi xian”, “Mao-wen Ch’iang Autonomous Hsien”, “Mao-wen-ch’iang-tsu Tzu-chih-hsien”, “Maochow”, “Maowen Qiangzu Zizhixian”, “Maozhou”, “Mowchow”, and “茂”

Maoxian

Latitude
31.6835° or 31° 41′ 1″ north
Longitude
103.8507° or 103° 51′ 3″ east
Population
41,000
Elevation
3,199 metres (10,495 feet)
Open location code
8P35MVM2+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4721725008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1801130
Wiki­data ID
Q612790
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Maoxian” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mao Xian”
  • Chinese: “Bō͘-koān”
  • Chinese: “Mào Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “茂县”
  • Chinese: “茂汶羌族自治县”
  • Chinese: “茂縣”
  • Dutch: “Mao”
  • French: “Maoxian”
  • French: “xian de Mao”
  • French: “Xian de Mao”
  • Gan Chinese: “茂县”
  • German: “Mao”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Meu-yen”
  • Italian: “Contea di Mao”
  • Japanese: “茂県”
  • Korean: “마오현”
  • Literary Chinese: “茂縣”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bō͘-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mao”
  • Norwegian: “Mao”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ماو”
  • Russian: “Маосянь”
  • Spanish: “Mao”
  • Swedish: “Mao, Ngawa”
  • Swedish: “Mao”
  • Thai: “เม่าโจว”
  • Thai: “เม่าเซี่ยน”
  • Thai: “เม่าเวิ่น”
  • Thai: “อำเภอเม่า”
  • Tibetan: “དམར་ཐང་རྫོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “མའོ་རྫོང་།”
  • Ukrainian: “Маосянь”
  • Urdu: “ماو کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Mậu huyện”
  • Vietnamese: “Mậu, Ngawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Mậu”
  • Wu Chinese: “茂县”

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