Dawu County (), also written Tawu County or Daofu County ( zh, s=道孚县), is a county of northwestern

Sichuan Province Sichuan is a Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capita ...

, China. It is under the administration of the

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the north ...

, and , had a population of 46,900 residing in an area of . By road it is from Kangding, the prefectural seat, and from

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

, the provincial capital. It borders the counties of Xinlong to the west, Kangding and

Yajiang Nyagqu County (, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka) or Yajiang County ( zh, s=雅江县 , p=Yǎjiāng Xiàn), named after Yalong River, Nyagchukha in Tibetan, is a county of the traditional Kham Region of eastern Tibet. It is currently under the administration ...

to the south, and Jinchuan and Zamtang of Ngawa Prefecture as well as Luhuo to the north. In January 1981 it was struck by an

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Administrative divisions

Dawu County is divided into 7

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and 12 townships:

Climate

References

External links

See this link for a book-length study of a Tibetan village in Dawu County: * http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Volume+Fifteen--Rgyalrong+Tibetan+Village Populated places in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture County-level divisions of Sichuan Long stubs with short prose {{Sichuan-geo-stub