Chaka Town () is a rural

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Ulan County Ulan or Wulan ( Mongolian: ; ; ) is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. County seat is Xireg. The name of the county comes from a Mongolian word which means "re ...

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

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. it had a population of 2,100 and an area of . The

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, Mongolian and

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live here.

History

After the establishment of the Communist State, it was renamed Chaka Commune in 1959. It was upgraded to a town in 1985. On October 14, 2016, it was listed among the first group of "Small towns with Chinese characteristics" by the

State Council of China The State Council, constitutionally synonymous with the Central People's Government since 1954 (particularly in relation to local governments), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the p ...

Geography

The Chaka Salt Lake () located within the town.

Economy

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and

mutton Lamb, hogget, and mutton, generically sheep meat, are the meat of domestic sheep, ''Ovis aries''. A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton. Gen ...

are important to the economy.

Transportation

The

G6 Beijing–Lhasa Expressway The Beijing–Tibet Expressway (), commonly abbreviated to Jingzang Expressway (), also known as Beijing–Lhasa Expressway (Jingla Expressway; ) or China National Expressway 6, is part of the Expressways of China, Chinese national expressway netwo ...

passes across the town east to west. The Chaka railway station serves the town. Chaka railway is a branch line of Qinghai–Tibet railway.

Culture

The area was used for location filming of the 2018 romantic comedy film ''Love in Chaka'' ().

Gallery

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaka Divisions of Ulan County Township-level divisions of Qinghai