Ngawa County (, ), or Aba or Ngaba, is a county in the northwest of
Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the remote northwestern part of the prefecture, on the border with
Qinghai (to the northwest) and
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
(to the north). The county seat is
Ngawa Town
Ngawa or Aba town ( Burmese: ငါဝမြို့, Standard Tibetan: Ngawa) is the seat of Ngawa (Aba) County, within the Ngawa (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan pl ...
.
[Dorje (2009), pp. 778-781.]
Self-immolation incident
On 16 March 2011 a 20-year-old Tibetan monk called Phuntsok set fire to himself at a market, in protest against allegedly repressive government policies in Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan populated areas in China.
He died in hospital early in the morning of 17 March. Following Phuntsok's self-immolation, hundreds of monks from the same monastery,
Kirti monastery
Kirti Gompa ( bo, ཀིརྟི་དགོན་པ།), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in Ngawa, Sichuan province, in China, but traditionally part of Amdo region. Numerous other associated Kirti monasteries ...
in Ngaba County, and other local residents staged another protest.
Climate
Administrative divisions
Ngawa County(Aba County) has not
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 ...
and 4
townships:
*Towns:
** -
*Townships:
**Andou ()
**Anqiang ()
**Chalisi ()
**Dege ()
See also
*
Phuntsog self-immolation incident
The Phuntsog self-immolation incident occurred when a Tibetan Buddhist monk by the name of Rigzin Phuntsog self-immolated on March 16, 2011 in Ngawa County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, People's Republic of Chin ...
*
Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China
As of May 2022, 160 monks, nuns, and ordinary people have self-immolated in Tibet since 27 February 2009, when Tapey, a young monk from Kirti Monastery, set himself on fire in the marketplace in Ngawa City, Ngawa County, Sichuan. According to ...
Footnotes
References
* *Dorje, Gyurme (2009). ''Footprint Tibet Handbook''. Footprint Books. .
County-level divisions of Sichuan
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
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