Mao County or Maoxian ( zh, s=茂县; ;
Qiang: Shgvunyi) is a
county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
in
Ngawa Prefecture,
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 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 languages, Qiangic: ''Rrmea''; ) are an List of ethnic groups in China, 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 approx ...
. The county seat is
Fengyi Town.
Natural disasters
In 1933,
an earthquake occurred near
Diexi.
In 2017,
a landslide occurred in Xinmo Village (), Diexi.
Administrative divisions
Mao County has 11 towns.
Transport
*
China National Highway 213
Climate
References
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County-level divisions of Sichuan
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture