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Nangqên County
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Nangqên County, or Nangchen (Tibetan: ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 囊谦县), is currently a county of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is the southernmost county-level division of Qinghai province, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. Until 1951, the region was known as the Kingdom of Nangchen.[2] It was one of the five kingdoms of the historical region of Do Kham.[citation needed]
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Nangqên County
囊谦县 · ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། Nangchen | |
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![]() Location of Nangqên County (red) within Yushu Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
Coordinates: 32°12′11″N 96°28′52″E | |
Country | China |
Province | Qinghai |
Autonomous prefecture | Yushu |
County seat | Xangda |
Area | |
• Total | 12,741 km2 (4,919 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 90,307 |
• Density | 7.1/km2 (18/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 815200 |
Website | www |
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Simplified Chinese | 囊谦县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 囊謙縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan | ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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The county seat is Xangda, built in a side valley and on the right bank of the Dza Chu (upper reaches of the Mekong). In 2000, the county's population amounted to 57,387 people, inhabiting a surface of 11,539 km2 (4,455 sq mi).