Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Gannan Prefecture 甘南州 · ཀན་ཁུལ།
Autonomous Prefecture
甘南藏族自治州 Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Labrang Monastery, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Location of Gannan Prefecture within Gansu
Coordinates: 34°59′8″N 102°30′29″E / 34.98556°N 102.50806°ECoordinates: 34°59′8″N 102°30′29″E / 34.98556°N 102.50806°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Gansu
Prefecture Seat	Hezuo
Area
• Total	40,898 km^2 (15,791 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	689,132
• Density	17/km^2 (44/sq mi)
• Major Ethnic Groups	Tibetan-51.44% Han-41.75% Hui-6.43%
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Website	http://www.gn.gansu.gov.cn/

Gānnán 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. 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 (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^[1] (population density: 17.14 inhabitants per km²).

Ethnic groups in Gannan, 2000 census

Nationality	Population	Percentage
Tibetan	329,278	51.44%
Han	267,260	41.75%
Hui	41,163	6.43%
Tu	939	0.15%
Dongxiang	258	0.04%
Manchu	257	0.04%
Salar	222	0.03%
Mongols	215	0.03%
Others	514	0.09%

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 ※ Zhugqu County Têwo County Maqu County Luqu County Xiahe County ※ ＊ ＊ Lianhuashan National Nature Reserve
Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie Tibetan Pinyin	Population (2010 Census)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
Hezuo (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	卓尼县	Zhuóní Xiàn	ཅོ་ནེ་རྫོང་།	co ne rdzong Jonê Zong	100,522	5,694	17.65
Zhugqu County	舟曲县	Zhōuqū Xiàn	འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།	'brug chu rdzong Kqu Zong	132,108	3,010	43.88
Têwo 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 (Sangqu) County	夏河县	Xiàhé Xiàn	བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།	bsang chu rdzong Sangqu Zong	86,670	6,674	12.98

References

1. Census 2012 http://www.geohive.com/cntry/cn-62.aspx

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

External links

• Official website of Gansu Government