Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

34°59′N 102°55′E / 34.98°N 102.91°E / 34.98; 102.91

Gannan Prefecture 甘南州 · 甘南藏族自治州 · ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།
Labrang Monastery, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Location of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Gansu
Country	China
Province	Gansu
Prefecture Seat	Hezuo
Government
• Type	Autonomous prefecture
• CCP Secretary	Yu Chenghui
• Congress Chairman	Tashi Cao
• Governor	Zhao Lingyun
• CPPCC Chairman	Rinchen Thondup
Area
• Total	40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi)
Population  (2010[citation needed])
• Total	689,132
• Density	17/km2 (44/sq mi)
• Major Ethnic Groups	Tibetan−51.44% Han−41.75% Hui−6.43%
GDP[1]
• Total	CN¥ 12.7 billion US$ 2.0 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 17,990 US$ 2,888
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-GS-30
Website	www.gn.gansu.gov.cn

Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 甘南藏族自治州; pinyin: Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Kan-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, ZYPY: Gainlho Poirig Ranggyong Kü) is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China, bordering Linxia to the north, Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east and Aba (Sichuan province) to the south. It includes Xiahe and the Labrang Monastery, Luqu, Maqu and other mostly Tibetan towns and villages. Gannan has an area of 40,898 km² (15,791 sq mi) and its capital is Hezuo city (Zoi). In the first year of the proclamation of Gannan Autonomous District, the district-seat was at the Labrang Town of Sangqu.

Population

According to the 2010 census, Gannan has 689,132 inhabitants^[2] (population density: 17.14 inhabitants per km²).

Ethnic groups in Gannan, 2000 census

Transport

In the prefecture is high-way G213. In 2013, the Gannan Xiahe Airport was opened.

Subdivisions

1 county level city, 7 counties.

Map
Hezuo (city) Lintan County Jonê County ※ Zhouqu County Têwo County Maqu County Luqu County Xiahe County ※ ＊ ＊ Lianhuashan National Nature Reserve Note: Lianhuashan National Nature Reserve is part of Lintan County.
Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie Tibetan Pinyin	Population (2010 Census)	Area (km2)	Density (/km2)
Hezuo City (Zoi City)	合作市	Hézuò Shì	གཙོས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།	gtsos grong khyer Zoi Chongkyir	90,290	2,670	33.81
Lintan County	临潭县	Líntán Xiàn	ལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་།	lin than rdzong Lintain Zong	137,001	1,557	87.99
Jonê County (Zhuoni County)	卓尼县	Zhuóní Xiàn	ཅོ་ནེ་རྫོང་།	co ne rdzong Jonê Zong	100,522	5,694	17.65
Zhouqu County (Zhugqu County)	舟曲县	Zhōuqū Xiàn	འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།	'brug chu rdzong Zhugqu Zong	132,108	3,010	43.88
Têwo County (Diebu County)	迭部县	Diébù Xiàn	ཐེ་བོ་རྫོང་།	the bo rdzong Têwo Zong	52,166	5,108	10.21
Maqu County	玛曲县	Mǎqū Xiàn	རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།	rma chu rdzong Maqu Zong	54,745	10,190	6.72
Luqu County	碌曲县	Lùqū Xiàn	ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།	klu chu rdzong Gluqu Zong	35,630	5,298	6.72
Xiahe County (Sangqu County)	夏河县	Xiàhé Xiàn	བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།	bsang chu rdzong Sangqu Zong	86,670	6,674	12.98

Climate

Gannan, as illustrated by this chart for Xiahe, has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) that grades into an alpine climate (ETH) at the highest elevations. The climate is characterised by mild, rainy summers and frigid, but dry and sunny, winters.

See also

• Zorgey Ritoma

References

Further reading

• A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 2. The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
• Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3

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