Wenchuan
Wenchuan is a small county in Sichuan’s Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, which straddles the confluence of the Min and Zagunao Rivers. Wenchuan 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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Wenchuan
- Type: County of China
- Description: county in Ngawa, Sichuan, China
- Location: Aba, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
Latitude 31.1586° or 31° 9' 30.9" north | Longitude 103.2871° or 103° 17' 13.5" east |
Population 101,000 | Elevation 3041 metres (9977 feet) |
GeoNames ID 1791528 |
Also Known As
- Cebuano: Wenchuan Xian
- Chinese: Bûn-chhoan-koān
- Chinese: 汶川
- Chinese: 汶川县
- Chinese: 汶川縣
- Chinese: 绵虒县
- Dutch: Wenchuan
- English: Wenchuan County
- French: Comte de Wenchuan
- French: Comté de wenchuan
- French: Wenchuan
- French: Xian de Wenchuan
- Gan Chinese: 汶川县
- German: Wenchuan
- Hakka Chinese: Vún-chhôn-yen
- Hausa: Vún-chhôn-yen
- Indonesian: Kabupaten Wenchuan
- Indonesian: Wenchuan
- Italian: Contea di Wenchuan
- Japanese: 汶川県
- Japanese: 綿虒県
- Korean: 문천현
- Korean: 원촨현
- Literary Chinese: 汶川
- Literary Chinese: 汶川縣
- Min Nan Chinese: Bûn-chhoan-koān
- Norwegian: Wenchuan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Wenchuan
- Persian: ونچوان
- Romanian: Wenchuan
- Russian: Вэньчуань
- Spanish: Wenchuan
- Swedish: Wenchuan
- Turkish: Webzhuan
- Turkish: Wenchuan
- Vietnamese: Mân Xuyên
- Wu Chinese: 汶川县
- Yue Chinese: 汶川
- Yue Chinese: 汶川县
- Yue Chinese: 汶川縣
- Wen-ch’uan Hsien
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