Gakog (Hongyuan) County ( or ; ) is a county in the north of

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 is under the administration of the

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous 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 ...

. There is a river called ''Ka Chu/Gaqu'' () in the area and ''kog'' means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the ''Ga'' River. This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely

yak The domestic yak (''Bos grunniens''), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau, Kachin Sta ...

herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is . About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside (2004) mostly

Amdo Amdo ( �am˥˥.to˥˥ ) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being U-Tsang in the west and Kham in the east. Ngari (including former Guge kingdom) in the north-west was incorporated into Ü-Tsang. Amdo is also the bi ...

Tibetan. The language is spoken is one of the most conservative dialect among the

Amdo Tibetan Amdo Tibetan (; also called ''Am kä'') is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo (now mostly in Qinghai, some in Ngawa and Gannan). It has two dialects, the farmer dialect and the nomad dialect. Amdo is one of the three branches of traditional c ...

varieties. The county seat is (a.k.a. Khyungchu).

Southwest University for Nationalities Southwest Minzu University (), formerly Southwest University for Nationalities (SWUN), is a multi-disciplinary higher education institute under the control of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of China. The university was founded in July 1950 ...

maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County.About Us
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. Retrieved on November 16, 2015. The country is served by

Hongyuan Airport Hongyuan Airport () is an airport serving Hongyuan County in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China. It is located southwest of the county seat, and from Barkam, the prefecture capital. Construction started ...

Climate

Administrative divisions

Hongyuan County has 5

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 ...

: *Townships: **Amuke () **Kangle () **Longri () **Maiwa () **Waqie ()

References

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture County-level divisions of Sichuan {{Sichuan-geo-stub