Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Garzê
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Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ 甘孜藏族自治州
Late Spring
Location of Garzê Prefecture (yellow) within Sichuan
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Area
– Total	151,078 km2 (58,331.5 sq mi)
Population
– Total	880,000
– Density	5.8/km2 (15.1/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Website	http://www.gzz.gov.cn/

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Chinese	甘孜藏族自治州
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
Abbreviated as "Garzê Prefecture"
Chinese	甘孜州
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Gānzī Zhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetan	དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་
Transcriptions - Wylie dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul - Zangwen Pinyin Garzê Poirig Ranggyong Kü

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་; Chinese: 甘孜藏族自治州) is an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan whose capital is Kangding (Dardo). It is sometimes spelled as "Kardze" by non-government sources.

The area is 151,078 square kilometers and the population is approximately 880,000, with Tibetans accounting for 77.8% of the population.

History

Garze was traditionally part of the Tibetan region known as Kham. During the period of rule by the Republic of China (1911–1949), it became nominally part of Xikang province, which included parts of former Kham. In 1930, a Tibetan army invaded Garze, 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 Garze, and signed an agreement with the Tibetans formalizing his control of the area east of the Yangtze River, 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 Garze became an autonomous prefecture.

Subdivisions

Garzê comprises 18 counties:

Map	#	Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Population (2004 est.)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
	1	Kangding County	康定县	Kāngdìng Xiàn	དར་མདོ་རྫོང་	dar mdo rdzong	110,000	11,486	10
	2	Luding County	泸定县	Lúdìng Xiàn	ལྕགས་ཟམ་རྫོང་	lcags zam rdzong	80,000	2,165	37
	3	Danba County	丹巴县	Dānbā Xiàn	རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་	rong brag rdzong	60,000	4,656	13
	4	Jiulong County	九龙县	Jiǔlóng Xiàn	བརྒྱད་ཟུར་རྫོང་	brgyad zur rdzong	50,000	6,766	7
	5	Yajiang County	雅江县	Yǎjiāng Xiàn	ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་	nyag chu rdzong	40,000	7,558	5
	6	Dawu County	道孚县	Dàofú Xiàn	རྟ་འུ་རྫོང་	rta 'u rdzong	50,000	7,053	7
	7	Luhuo County	炉霍县	Lúhuò Xiàn	བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་	brag 'go rdzong	40,000	4,601	9
	8	Garzê County	甘孜县	Gānzī Xiàn	དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་	dkar mdzes rdzong	60,000	7,303	8
	9	Xinlong County	新龙县	Xīnlóng Xiàn	ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་	nyag rong rdzong	40,000	8,570	5
	10	Dêgê County	德格县	Dégé Xiàn	སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་	sde dge rdzong	70,000	11,025	6
	11	Baiyü County	白玉县	Báiyù Xiàn	དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་	dpal yul rdzong	40,000	10,386	4
	12	Sêrxü County	石渠县	Shíqú Xiàn	སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་	ser shul rdzong	60,000	24,944	2
	13	Sêrtar County	色达县	Sèdá Xiàn	གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་	gser thar rdzong	40,000	9,332	4
	14	Litang County	理塘县	Lǐtáng Xiàn	ལི་ཐང་རྫོང་	li thang rdzong	50,000	13,677	4
	15	Batang County	巴塘县	Bātáng Xiàn	འབའ་ཐང་རྫོང་	'ba' thang rdzong	50,000	7,852	6
	16	Xiangcheng County	乡城县	Xiāngchéng Xiàn	ཕྱག་འཕྲེང་རྫོང་	phyag 'phreng rdzong	30,000	5,016	6
	17	Daocheng County	稻城县	Dàochéng Xiàn	འདབ་པ་རྫོང་	'dab pa rdzong	30,000	7,323	4
	18	Dêrong County	得荣县	Déróng Xiàn	སྡེ་རོང་རྫོང་	sde rong rdzong	20,000	2,916	7

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%

Footnotes

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 101.9625°E / 30.04944; 101.9625