Mao County or Maoxian (; ;
Qiang: ʂqini) is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in
Ngawa Prefecture
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (; Qiang: ; ), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest. Its seat is in Barkam, and it has an ar ...
,
Sichuan Province
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China.
It has an area of 3,903 and a population of 106,700 as of 2006. 88.9% of the population are
Qiang people
The Qiang people ( Qiangic: ''Rrmea''; ) are an ethnic group in China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognised by the People's Republic of China, with a population of approximately 310,000 in 2000. They live mainly in a ...
. The county seat is Fengyi ().
Natural disasters
In 1933,
an earthquake occurred near
Diexi ().
In 2017,
a landslide occurred in Xinmo Village (), Diexi.
Administrative divisions
Mao County has 9 towns and 12 townships.
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Towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
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Diexi ()
**Dongxing ()
**Fengyi () – Seat of the Mao County People's Government
**Fushun ()
**Guangming ()
**Nanxin ()
**Taiping ()
**Tumen ()
**Yadu ()
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Townships
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
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**Baixi ()
**Feihong ()
**Goukou ()
**Heihu ()
**Huilong ()
**Qugu ()
**Sanlong ()
**Shidaguan ()
**Songpinggou ()
**Wadi ()
**Weimen ()
**Yonghe ()
Transport
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China National Highway 213
China National Highway 213 (G213) runs from Ceke, Inner Mongolia, to Mohan, on the border with Laos, in Yunnan. It is in length and runs via Chengdu, Sichuan and Kunming, Yunnan. Before the 2013 Highway Planning, the route started in Lanzhou ...
Climate
References
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County-level divisions of Sichuan
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture