Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous PrefectureAbbreviated as "Aba Prefecture"Simplified Chinese阿坝州Traditional Chinese阿壩州Tibetan nameTibetanརྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, Wylie: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ang rigs rang skyong khul; Qiang: Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea; simplified Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; traditional Chinese: 阿壩藏族羌族自治州), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest.
Gyalrong peopleEthnic group GyalrongTotal population120,000Regions with significant populationsSichuan, ChinaLanguagesGyalrongic (traditional), Amdo Tibetan, Khams Tibetan, Sichuanese (lingua franca)ReligionTibetan BuddhismRelated ethnic groupsTibetan, Qiang, Tangut Gyalrong (Chinese: 嘉绒; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རོང) people, also called rGyalrong, Jiarong, or Gyarong, are ethnically native to parts of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture and the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China.
Chinese languageChinese (spoken: simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, written: 中文; Zhōngwén) is a collection of language varieties containing almost all Sinitic languages except Macro-Bai languages, natively spoken by the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in Greater China, as well as by communities of the overseas Chinese.
PinyinScheme for the Chinese Phonetic AlphabetSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseLiteral meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .
SichuanProvince in Southwestern ChinaProvince in ChinaTibetan nameTibetanསི་ཁྲོན་Yi nameYiꌧꍧsyp chuoSichuan is an inland province in Southwestern China. It is located in 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 capital city is Chengdu, and the province's population stands at 83 million.
Qin dynastyThe Qin dynasty ( CHIN) was the first imperial dynasty of China. It is named for its progenitor state of Qin, a fief of the confederal Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–256 BC). Beginning in 230 BC, the Qin under King Ying Zheng engaged in a series of wars conquering each of the rival states that had previously pledged fealty to the Zhou. This culminated in 221 BC with the successful unification of China.
County-level cityTibetan nameTibetanརྫོང་རིམ་པ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།Mongolian nameMongolian scriptᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤᠨ ᠤ ᠡᠩ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠUyghur nameUyghurناھىيىسى دەرىجىلىك شەھەرA county-level city (Chinese: 县级市) is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China.
TusiTibetan nameTibetanཐོའུ་སིVietnamese nameVietnamese alphabetThổ tyChữ Hán土司Manchu nameManchu scriptᠠᡳᠮᠠᠨ ᡳ ᡥᠠᡶᠠᠨMöllendorffaiman i hafanTusi (Chinese: 土司; pinyin: Tǔsī; 'headmen, chieftains') were hereditary tribal leaders recognized as imperial officials by the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties of China, and the Later Lê and Nguyễn dynasties of Vietnam.
Jiandi DaoJiandi Dao (湔氐道) was a prefecture of ancient China located around today's Songpan region, in the east of Qingzang Plateau and northwest part of Sichuan province. Jiandi Dao was founded by Qin (秦) after it conquered Shu (蜀) in 316 BC. The Han dynasty reestablished Jiandi Dao in the sixth year of Yuanding (元鼎六年, AD 111). Jiandi Dao was changed to Jiandi County and became a constitute part of Wenshan Jun (汶山郡) in the Jin dynasty.
Barkam (town)Barkam (simplified Chinese: 马尔康镇; traditional Chinese: 馬爾康鎮; pinyin: Mǎ'ěrkāng Zhèn, Standard Tibetan: འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་རྡལ།, romanized: ʼbar khams grong rdal, Qiang: Bbadh kangw seqea) is a town in and the seat of the county-level city of Barkam, in the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in the northwest of Sichuan province, China.
2010 Chinese censusThe 2010 Chinese census, officially the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国第六次全国人口普查), was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China with a zero hour of November 1, 2010. Census procedureCensus procedure was governed by the Regulations on National Population Census and the Circular of the State Council on the Conduct of the 6th National Population Census.Town (China)Tibetan nameTibetanགྲོང་རྡལ།Zhuang nameZhuangCinKorean nameHangul진Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicбалгасMongolian scriptᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤUyghur nameUyghurبازارلىقManchu nameManchu scriptᡴᠠᡩᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᠠMöllendorffkadalaŋgaKazakh nameKazakhقالاشىقқалашықqalaşyqKyrgyz nameKyrgyzشاارچاшаарчаşaarçaDaur nameDaurgiaabnOroqen nameOroqenajilWhen referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese (traditional: ; pinyin: zhèn; Wade–Giles: chen).*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.