County in Sichuan, China
Ngawa County (Tibetan : རྔ་བ་རྫོང་། , Wylie : rnga ba rdzong , ZYPY : Ngawa Zong , Chinese : 阿坝县 ; pinyin : Ābà Xiàn ), or Aba or Ngaba , is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture . It is located in the remote northwestern part of the prefecture, on the border with Qinghai (to the northwest) and Gansu (to the north). The county seat is Ngawa Town .[ 2]
Self-immolation incident
On 16 March 2011 a 20-year-old Tibetan monk called Phuntsok set fire to himself at a market, in protest against allegedly repressive government policies in Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan populated areas in China.[ 3] He died in hospital early in the morning of 17 March. Following Phuntsok's self-immolation, hundreds of monks from the same monastery, Kirti monastery in Ngaba County, and other local residents staged another protest.
Climate
Climate data for Ngawa County, elevation 3,275 m (10,745 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °C (°F)
18.1 (64.6)
19.1 (66.4)
22.1 (71.8)
25.7 (78.3)
26.5 (79.7)
27.0 (80.6)
28.0 (82.4)
27.2 (81.0)
27.1 (80.8)
26.4 (79.5)
17.6 (63.7)
17.7 (63.9)
28.0 (82.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
4.5 (40.1)
7.0 (44.6)
10.0 (50.0)
13.8 (56.8)
16.3 (61.3)
18.2 (64.8)
20.4 (68.7)
20.4 (68.7)
17.8 (64.0)
13 (55)
8.9 (48.0)
5.2 (41.4)
13.0 (55.3)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−6.3 (20.7)
−3.0 (26.6)
1.2 (34.2)
5.5 (41.9)
8.8 (47.8)
11.7 (53.1)
13.4 (56.1)
12.9 (55.2)
10.3 (50.5)
5.2 (41.4)
−0.8 (30.6)
−5.5 (22.1)
4.5 (40.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−14.2 (6.4)
−10.7 (12.7)
−5.4 (22.3)
−1.1 (30.0)
2.9 (37.2)
6.7 (44.1)
8.0 (46.4)
7.3 (45.1)
5.3 (41.5)
0.2 (32.4)
−7.2 (19.0)
−12.7 (9.1)
−1.7 (28.9)
Record low °C (°F)
−29.3 (−20.7)
−28.4 (−19.1)
−18.2 (−0.8)
−9.0 (15.8)
−5.2 (22.6)
−1.3 (29.7)
−0.2 (31.6)
−1.5 (29.3)
−3.5 (25.7)
−12.0 (10.4)
−20.7 (−5.3)
−26.9 (−16.4)
−29.3 (−20.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
4.9 (0.19)
9.5 (0.37)
22.9 (0.90)
36.1 (1.42)
96.9 (3.81)
139.8 (5.50)
120.6 (4.75)
108.0 (4.25)
108.2 (4.26)
60.7 (2.39)
8.1 (0.32)
2.9 (0.11)
718.6 (28.27)
Average precipitation days
3.9
6.0
10.1
13.4
20.9
22.6
20.4
18.8
20.0
16.7
4.5
3.0
160.3
Average snowy days
5.9
8.2
13.9
10.6
3.6
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.3
6.4
7.3
4.5
61
Average relative humidity (%)
55
54
58
60
65
72
75
75
75
73
64
58
65
Mean monthly sunshine hours
212.8
190.4
211.8
220.3
211.6
177.5
204.9
203.2
180.4
190.2
216.1
223.8
2,443
Percent possible sunshine
67
61
57
56
49
42
47
50
49
55
70
72
56
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 4] [ 5]
Administrative divisions
Ngawa County comprises 6 towns and 9 townships :
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Administrative division code
Towns
Ngawa Town (Aba)
阿坝镇
Ābà Zhèn
རྔ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
rnga ba grong rdal
513231100
Jialuo Town (Jialuo)
贾洛镇
Jiǎluò Zhèn
གཅའ་རུ་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
gcav ru grong brdal
513231101
Miuruma Town (Meruma, Mai'erma)
麦尔玛镇
Mài'ěrmǎ Zhèn
རྨེའུ་རུ་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
rmevu ru ma grong rdal
513231102
Zhocog Town (Hocig, Hezhi)
河支镇
Hézhī Zhèn
སྤྲོ་ཚོགས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
spro tshogs grong rdal
513231103
Gomang Town (Gemo)
各莫镇
Gèmò Zhèn
སྒོ་མང་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sgo mang grong rdal
513231104
Akam Town (Ankyam, Anqiang)
安羌镇
Ānqiāng Zhèn
ཨ་གམས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
a gams grong rdal
513231105
Townships
Mêugor Township (Mêgor, Maikun)
麦昆乡
Màikūn Xiāng
རྨེའུ་སྐོར་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
rmevu skor yul tsho
513231201
Loincang Township (Longzang)
龙藏乡
Lóngzàng Xiāng
བློན་ཚང་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
blon tshang yul tsho
513231203
Qoijêma Township (Qiujima)
求吉玛乡
Qiújímǎ Xiāng
ཆོས་རྗེ་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
chos rje ma yul tsho
513231204
Suwa Township (Siwa)
四洼乡
Sìwā Xiāng
བསུ་བ་ཤང་།
bsu ba shang
513231208
Andü Township (Andou)
安斗乡
Āndǒu Xiāng
ཨ་འདུས་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
a vdus yul tsho
513231209
Kogbo Township (Kehe)
柯河乡
Kēhé Xiāng
ཁོག་པོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
khog po yul tsho
513231210
Karsar Township (Karsa, Kuasha)
垮沙乡
Kuǎshā Xiāng
མཁར་སར་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
mkhar sar yul tsho
513231211
Cainxi Township (Chali)
查理乡
Chálǐ Xiāng
མཚན་ཞིད་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
mtshan zhid yul tsho
513231213
Rongwam Township (Rong'an)
茸安乡
Róng'ān Xiāng
རོང་ཝམ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
rong wam yul tsho
513231214
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