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Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜州 | |
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| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese characters | 甘孜藏族自治州 (abbreviation:甘孜州) |
| • Hanyu pinyin | Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu (abbreviation:Gānzī Zhōu) |
| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| • Tibetan script | དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་། |
| • Wylie transliteration | dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul |
| • Tibetan pinyin | Garzê Poirig Ranggyong Kü |
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 Location of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Prefecture seat | Kangding |
| Government | |
| • Type | Autonomous prefecture |
| • CCP Secretary | Liu Chengming |
| • Congress Chairman | Xiang Qiu |
| • Governor | Xiao Youcai |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Shu Dachun |
| Area | |
• Total | 147,681.37 km2 (57,020.10 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census[1]) | |
• Total | 1,107,431 |
| • Density | 7.498786/km2 (19.42177/sq mi) |
| GDP[2] | |
| • Total | CN¥ 21.3 billion US$ 3.4 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 18,423 US$ 2,958 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-SC-33 |
| Website | www |
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| Tibetan | དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་། | ||||||
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Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,[a] often shortened toGanzi Prefecture,[b] is anautonomous prefecture in the western arm ofSichuan province,China borderingYunnan to the south, theTibet Autonomous Region to the west, andGansu to the north and northwest.[3]
The prefecture's area is 151,078 square kilometres (58,332 sq mi). The population is approximately 880,000, withTibetans accounting for 77.8% of the total population. The capital city of Garzê isKangding (Dartsedo).
Garzê was traditionally part of the historical region ofKham.
During the period of rule by theRepublic of China (1912–49), Garzê became nominally part of the province ofXikang, which included parts of former Kham.
In 1930, theTibetan army invaded Garzê, capturing it without much resistance. However, in 1932, the Tibetan army withdrew after suffering defeats elsewhere at the hands of the warlord ofQinghai,Ma Bufang.[4][5] Chinese warlordLiu Wenhui reoccupied Garzê, and signed an agreement with the Tibetans formalizing his control of the area east of the upperYangtze, which corresponds roughly with eastern Kham (seeSino-Tibetan War).[6]
In 1950, following the defeat of theKuomintang forces by thePeople's Liberation Army, the area fell within the control of thePeople's Republic of China. Eastern Xikang was merged with Sichuan in 1955, where Garzê became an Autonomous Prefecture.[citation needed]
According to the census of 2000, Garzê had a registered population of 897,239 (population density: 5.94 people/km2).
| nationality | population | proportion |
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| Tibetans | 703,168 | 78.37% |
| Han Chinese | 163,648 | 18.24% |
| Yi | 22,946 | 2.56% |
| Qiang | 2,860 | 0.32% |
| Hui | 2,190 | 0.24% |
| Naxi | 760 | 0.08% |
| Mongolians | 477 | 0.05% |
| Bai | 292 | 0.03% |
| others | 898 | 0.11% |
Garzê is linguistically diverse, having many variants of Tibetan as well as severalQiangic languages:
Tibetan Buddhism is historically the predominant religion practiced in Garzê.[7] Some notableGompas here include:
Garzê comprises 1 county-level city and 17 counties:
| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) |
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| 1 | Kangding City | 康定市 | Kāngdìng Shì | དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ | dar mdo grong khyer | 130,142 | 11,486 | 11.33 |
| 2 | Luding County | 泸定县 | Lúdìng Xiàn | ལྕགས་ཟམ་རྫོང་ | lcags zam rdzong | 83,386 | 2,165 | 38.51 |
| 3 | Danba County | 丹巴县 | Dānbā Xiàn | རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་ | rong brag rdzong | 59,696 | 4,656 | 12.82 |
| 4 | Jiulong County | 九龙县 | Jiǔlóng Xiàn | བརྒྱད་ཟུར་རྫོང་ | brgyad zur rdzong | 62,133 | 6,766 | 9.18 |
| 5 | Yajiang County | 雅江县 | Yǎjiāng Xiàn | ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་ | nyag chu rdzong | 50,225 | 7,558 | 6.64 |
| 6 | Dawu County (Daofu County) | 道孚县 | Dàofú Xiàn | རྟ་འུ་རྫོང་ | rta 'u rdzong | 55,396 | 7,053 | 7.85 |
| 7 | Luhuo County | 炉霍县 | Lúhuò Xiàn | བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་ | brag 'go rdzong | 46,558 | 4,601 | 10.11 |
| 8 | Garzê County (Ganzi County) | 甘孜县 | Gānzī Xiàn | དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་ | dkar mdzes rdzong | 68,523 | 7,303 | 9.38 |
| 9 | Xinlong County | 新龙县 | Xīnlóng Xiàn | ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་ | nyag rong rdzong | 50,393 | 8,570 | 5.88 |
| 10 | Dêgê County (Dege County) | 德格县 | Dégé Xiàn | སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་ | sde dge rdzong | 81,503 | 11,025 | 7.39 |
| 11 | Baiyü County | 白玉县 | Báiyù Xiàn | དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་ | dpal yul rdzong | 56,290 | 10,386 | 5.41 |
| 12 | Sêrxü County (Shiqu County) | 石渠县 | Shíqú Xiàn | སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་ | ser shul rdzong | 80,834 | 24,944 | 3.24 |
| 13 | Sêrtar County (Seda County) | 色达县 | Sèdá Xiàn | གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་ | gser thar rdzong | 58,606 | 9,332 | 6.28 |
| 14 | Litang County | 理塘县 | Lǐtáng Xiàn | ལི་ཐང་རྫོང་ | li thang rdzong | 69,046 | 13,677 | 5.04 |
| 15 | Batang County | 巴塘县 | Bātáng Xiàn | འབའ་ཐང་རྫོང་ | 'ba' thang rdzong | 48,649 | 7,852 | 6.19 |
| 16 | Xiangcheng County | 乡城县 | Xiāngchéng Xiàn | ཕྱག་འཕྲེང་རྫོང་ | phyag 'phreng rdzong | 33,170 | 5,016 | 6.61 |
| 17 | Daocheng County | 稻城县 | Dàochéng Xiàn | འདབ་པ་རྫོང་ | 'dab pa rdzong | 31,113 | 7,323 | 4.24 |
| 18 | Dêrong County | 得荣县 | Déróng Xiàn | སྡེ་རོང་རྫོང་ | sde rong rdzong | 26,209 | 2,916 | 8.98 |
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