SW China
Sichuan
Ganzi

Yajiang

Yajiang is a modern town of under 10,000 people set in a steep valley along the southern Tibet-Sichuan highway in Ganzi in , at an altitude of roughly 2,900 meters.
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  • Type: City with 19,800 residents
  • Description: county in Garze, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Nyachukha”, “Nyachukha County”, “Nyagchukha”, “Nyagqu”, “Nyagqu County”, “Nyagqu Xian”, “Nyagquka”, “Nyagquka Xian”, “Nyakchu”, “Ya-chiang Hsien”, and “Yajiang County”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hekou.

Town
is a town in Yajiang County, of , .

Yajiang

Latitude
30.0351° or 30° 2′ 7″ north
Longitude
101.0139° or 101° 0′ 50″ east
Population
19,800
Elevation
2,653 metres (8,704 feet)
Open location code
8P2322P7+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4547705841
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1787784
Wiki­data ID
Q1199897
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Yajiang” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Yajiang Xian”
  • Chinese: “Ngá-kang-koān”
  • Chinese: “Yǎjiāng Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “河口縣”
  • Chinese: “雅江”
  • Chinese: “雅江县”
  • Chinese: “雅江縣”
  • Dutch: “Yajiang”
  • French: “Comte de Yajiang”
  • French: “Comté de Yajiang”
  • French: “xian de Yajiang”
  • French: “Xian de Yajiang”
  • French: “Yajiang”
  • Gan Chinese: “雅江县”
  • German: “Nyagchukha”
  • German: “Nyagquka”
  • German: “Yajiang”
  • Italian: “Contea di Yajiang”
  • Japanese: “雅江県”
  • Korean: “야장현”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngá-kang-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyagquka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yajiang”
  • Norwegian: “Yajiang”
  • Persian: “شهرستان یاجیانگ”
  • Russian: “Ньягчука”
  • Spanish: “Yajiang”
  • Swedish: “Yajiang”
  • Tibetan: “ཉག་ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།”
  • Urdu: “یاجیانگ کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhã Giang”
  • Wu Chinese: “雅江县”

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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 “Yajiang”. Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.