Baqên County

Baqên County
巴青县སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Location of Baqên County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Baqên County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Baqên is located in Tibet
Baqên
Baqên
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Baqên is located in China
Baqên
Baqên
Baqên (China)
Coordinates: 32°35′41″N 93°55′49″E / 32.59472°N 93.93028°E / 32.59472; 93.93028
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatLhashé
Area
 • Total9,810.67 km2 (3,787.92 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total56,200
 • Density5.7/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.nqbqx.gov.cn
Baqên County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese巴青县
Traditional Chinese巴青縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།

Baqên County (Tibetan: སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 巴青县) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is located in northeastern Tibet and borders with Qinghai.

Administrative divisions[edit]

Baqên county contains 3 towns and 7 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Lhashé Town 拉西镇 Lāxī zhèn ལྷ་ཤེས་གྲོང་རྡལ། lha shes grong rdal
Dzasib Town 杂色镇 Zásè zhèn རྫ་སྲིབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rdza srib grong rdal
Ya'nga Town 雅安镇 Yǎ'ān zhèn ཡ་ང་གྲོང་རྡལ། ya nga grong rdal
Townships
Mamta Township 江绵乡 Jiāngmián xiāng མམ་ཐ་ཤང་། mam tha shang
Marru Township 玛如乡 Mǎrú xiāng དམར་རུ་ཤང་། dmar ru shang
Arshok Township 阿秀乡 Āxiù xiāng ཨར་ཤོག་ཤང་། ar shog shang
Gangri Township 贡日乡 Gòngrì xiāng སྒང་རི་ཤང་། sgor ri shang
Gangchen Township 岗切乡 Gǎngqiē xiāng གངས་ཆེན་ཤང་། gangs chen shang
Baqên Township[2] 巴青乡 Bāqīng xiāng སྦྲ་ཆེན་ཤང་། sbra chen shang
Bönta Township 本塔乡 Běntǎ xiāng བོན་མཐའ་ཤང་། bon mtha' shang

Transport[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
  2. ^ 张锐. "The voice from Tibet's Nagqu Prefecture". China.org.cn. Retrieved 2022-08-20.