Jiaqiong or Jakhyung Town, also known as Jongnag (''Jakhyung'' བྱ་ཁྱུང་, ''Jiaqiong-zhen'' 佳琼镇) is a small town and township-level division in

Baingoin County Baingoin County (; ) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region. County got the name from the lake Drang-khog () which is in center of county. County lies between lakes Namtso and Siling. The county is divided into ten towns and ...

Nagqu Nagqu (also Naqu, Nakchu, or Nagchu; ; ) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet. On May 7, 2018, the former Nagqu Prefecture was officially declared the sixth prefecture-level city in Tibet after Lhasa, ...

in the

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of the

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. It covers an area of and as of 2010 it had a population of 2926 people. Jiaqiong lies to the northwest of Beila, to the east of

Amdo County Amdo County (; ) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly by Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 . Its capital i ...

, and south of

Shuanghu County Shuanghu County (), also transliterated from Tibetan as Co Nyi County (Co'nyi; ; ), is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, in the northernmost part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. I ...

History

The township was established in 1960. In 1987 the original Jiaqiong, Qiongna Group and Baisong Townships were merged into Jiaqiong. In 2002 it merged with Kangri Township.

Geography and geology

The township-level division lies in the southeast of the Nagqu region. It covers an area of , accounting for 9.9% of the area of Baingoin County in its northeast. Jiaqiong lies northeast of

Baingoin Baingoin County (; ) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region. County got the name from the lake Drang-khog () which is in center of county. County lies between lakes Namtso and Siling Lake, Siling. The county is divided into te ...

the northwest of Beila and west of Maqian, and to the east of

, and south of

. The town itself is situated between Dongqia Co and Daru Co lakes, to the west of the Sangqu River. The town has jurisdiction over the neighborhood of Dolcha Community (多尔查居委会) and the village committees of Duodi or Duocha (多地村), Yangmubu (央木布村), Nagacha (那高查村), Rekanuma (热卡努玛村) and Hikawa Xiema (热卡下玛村). Rekanuma lies on the northwestern shore of Daru lake, while the villages of Jiangpu and Ma'er Suiququ lie on the northern end. Duocha lies upriver to the northeast of Jiaqiong Town, and Kangma village lies further north of that. The area to the northeast of Kangma, between there and the northern end of Daru lake is more mountainous, rising to an elevation of over . Morong is a river village between Duocha and Daru Lake. The Jongnag fault in the area cuts northwards through the

Bangong Lake Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (; ; hi, text=पैंगोंग झील) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of . It is long and divided into five sublakes, called ''Pangong Tso'', ''Tso N ...

- Nujiang River fault and is described as a "S-N discontinuously rising magnetic anomaly zone".

Demographics

As of 2010 the township had a population of 2926 of which 1530 were women and 1396 men. Children under 15 years made up 32%, adults 15-64 years 62%, and older people over 65 years 4.0%.

Economy

The economy is mainly based on animal husbandry. There is an area of 210,000 hectares of grassland. The principal livestock products include meat, dairy products, fur and cashmere. In 2003, the total income of the rural economy in Jiaqiong was 700.13 million yuan, and the per capita annual income of herders was 1 329.94 yuan.

References

{{Nagqu Populated places in Nagqu Township-level divisions of Tibet