Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture





Autonomous prefectures in Sichuan, People's Republic of China














































Ganzi Prefecture


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དཀར་མཛེས་ཁུལ།

Autonomous prefectures



甘孜藏族自治州

དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་

Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Seda County
Seda County


Location of Ganzi Prefecture in Sichuan
Location of Ganzi Prefecture in Sichuan

Country People's Republic of China
Province Sichuan
Prefecture seat Kangding
Area

 • Total 151,078 km2 (58,332 sq mi)
Population

 • Total 880,000
 • Density 5.8/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code CN-SC-33
Website www.gzz.gov.cn























Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese 甘孜藏族自治州







Abbreviated as "Ganzi Prefecture"
Chinese 甘孜州







Tibetan name
Tibetan


དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་













Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture also known as Ganzi (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, THL Kardzé Börik Rangkyongkhül; Chinese: 甘孜藏族自治州) — is an autonomous prefecture of China occupying the western arm of Sichuan. It is sometimes spelled "Kardzé" and "Garzin" by non-government sources.


The prefecture's area is 151,078 square kilometres (58,332 sq mi). The population is approximately 880,000, with Tibetans accounting for 77.8% of the total population. The capital city of Garzê is Kangding (Dartsedo).




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Population


  • 3 Languages


  • 4 Religion


  • 5 Subdivisions


  • 6 See also


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





History


Garzê was traditionally part of the historical region of Kham.


During the period of rule by the Republic of China (1912–49), Garzê became nominally part of the province of Xikang, which included parts of former Kham.


In 1930, the Tibetan army invaded Garzê, capturing it without much resistance. However, in 1932, the Tibetan army withdrew after suffering defeats elsewhere at the hands of the warlord of Qinghai, Ma Bufang. Chinese warlord Liu Wenhui reoccupied Garzê, and signed an agreement with the Tibetans formalizing his control of the area east of the upper Yangtze, which corresponds roughly with eastern Kham.


In 1950, following the defeat of the Kuomintang forces by the People's Liberation Army, the area fell within the control of the People's Republic of China. Eastern Xikang was merged with Sichuan in 1955, where Garzê became an autonomous prefecture.



Population


According to the census of 2000, Garzê had a population of 897,239 (population density: 5.94 people/km²).





















































nationality
population
proportion

Tibetans
703,168
78.37%

Han Chinese
163,648
18.24%

Yi
22,946
2.56%

Qiang
2,860
0.32%

Hui
2,190
0.24%

Naxi
760
0.08%

Mongolians
477
0.05%

Bai
292
0.03%
others
898
0.11%


Languages


Garzê is highly linguistically diverse, and has many Qiangic languages.




  • Kangding: Guiqiong, Muya


  • Luding County: Muya


  • Danba County: rGyalrong


  • Jiulong County: Pumi (Southern)


  • Yajiang County: Zhaba


  • Dawu County: Horpa


  • Xinlong County: Queyu



Religion


Tibetan Buddhism is historically the predominant religion practiced in Garzê. Protests by monks supporting the autonomy of Tibet and Tibetan human rights have been increasingly occurring at temples and monasteries in Garzê. Gompas here include:



  • Dzogchen Monastery

  • Dzongsar Monastery

  • Kandze Monastery

  • Kharnang Monastery

  • Nanwu Si Monastery

  • Palpung Monastery

  • Sershul Monastery

  • Tongkor Monastery


  • Larung Gar Buddhist Institute


  • Yarchen Gar Buddhist Institute



Subdivisions


Garzê comprises 1 county-level city and 17 counties:






















































































































































































































Map
#
Name

Hanzi

Hanyu Pinyin

Tibetan

Wylie
Population
(2010 Census)
Area (km²)
Density
(/km²)

Garzi mcp.png
1

Kangding City

康定市
Kāngdìng Shì


དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་
dar mdo grong khyer
130,142
11,486
11.33
2

Luding County

泸定县
Lúdìng Xiàn


ལྕགས་ཟམ་རྫོང་
lcags zam rdzong
83,386
2,165
38.51
3

Danba County

丹巴县
Dānbā Xiàn


རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་
rong brag rdzong
59,696
4,656
12.82
4

Jiulong County

九龙县
Jiǔlóng Xiàn


བརྒྱད་ཟུར་རྫོང་
brgyad zur rdzong
62,133
6,766
9.18
5

Yajiang County

雅江县
Yǎjiāng Xiàn


ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་
nyag chu rdzong
50,225
7,558
6.64
6

Dawu County (Daofu County)

道孚县
Dàofú Xiàn


རྟ་འུ་རྫོང་
rta 'u rdzong
55,396
7,053
7.85
7

Luhuo County

炉霍县
Lúhuò Xiàn


བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་
brag 'go rdzong
46,558
4,601
10.11
8

Garzê County (Ganzi County)

甘孜县
Gānzī Xiàn


དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་
dkar mdzes rdzong
68,523
7,303
9.38
9

Xinlong County

新龙县
Xīnlóng Xiàn


ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་
nyag rong rdzong
50,393
8,570
5.88
10

Dêgê County (Dege County)

德格县
Dégé Xiàn


སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་
sde dge rdzong
81,503
11,025
7.39
11

Baiyü County

白玉县
Báiyù Xiàn


དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་
dpal yul rdzong
56,290
10,386
5.41
12

Sêrxü County (Shiqu County)

石渠县
Shíqú Xiàn


སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་
ser shul rdzong
80,834
24,944
3.24
13

Sêrtar County (Seda County)

色达县
Sèdá Xiàn


གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་
gser thar rdzong
58,606
9,332
6.28
14

Litang County

理塘县
Lǐtáng Xiàn


ལི་ཐང་རྫོང་
li thang rdzong
69,046
13,677
5.04
15

Batang County

巴塘县
Bātáng Xiàn


འབའ་ཐང་རྫོང་
'ba' thang rdzong
48,649
7,852
6.19
16

Xiangcheng County

乡城县
Xiāngchéng Xiàn


ཕྱག་འཕྲེང་རྫོང་
phyag 'phreng rdzong
33,170
5,016
6.61
17

Daocheng County

稻城县
Dàochéng Xiàn


འདབ་པ་རྫོང་
'dab pa rdzong
31,113
7,323
4.24
18

Dêrong County

得荣县
Déróng Xiàn


སྡེ་རོང་རྫོང་
sde rong rdzong
26,209
2,916
8.98


See also


  • Autonomous prefectures of China


References









External links



  • Official website of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

  • Travel information on Garzê TAP towns and villages : along the Northern and Southern Sichuan-Tibet Highways, Tagong (in between both highways), Daocheng and Yading (south of both highways)




Coordinates: 30°02′58″N 101°57′45″E / 30.04944°N 101.96250°E / 30.04944; 101.96250


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