Qabqa or Chabcha (; ) is a town in

Gonghe County Gonghe County (; ), also known as Kungho, is a county of Qinghai Province, China under the administration of Hainan Prefecture. The seat of Gonghe County is in the town of Qabqa. Demographics In 2006, 55% of the population were Tibetans, with H ...

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 ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It is the seat of the

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, formerly known as Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; ), is an autonomous prefecture of Northeastern Qinghai Province in Western China. The prefecture has an area of and its seat is located in Gonghe Co ...

and the seat of Gonghe County. Qabqa has an altitude of 2835 m. The average annual temperature is , and the average annual precipitation is . Qabqa had a population of 46,907 as of 2010. Qabqa is the political, economical, and cultural center of the Hainan Prefecture.http://www.qhgh.gov.cn/html/1792/206066.html

China National Highway 214 China National Highway 214 (G214) runs from Xining, Qinghai to Jinghong, Yunnan. It is 3,256 kilometres in length and runs south from Xining towards Tibet, and ends in Yunnan Province. Route and distance See also * China National Highways ...

passes through Qabqa.

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{{Authority control Populated places in Qinghai Township-level divisions of Qinghai Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture