Nagqu Prefecture

Nagqu Prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region

Nagqu Prefecture (also Naqu or Nagchu); Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: Nag-chu Sa-khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: Nàqū Dìqū) is the largest prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region.^[1] Nagqu has a total area of 450,537 km². The prefecture is divided into 11 different counties and Nagchu County contains the capital of Nagqu.

Nagqu is expected to have the world's highest altitude airport by 2011 at 4,436 meters above sea level. It will be named Nagqu Dagring Airport^[2]. Nagqu was chosen to host the largest logistics center in the plateau region, which began operations in August 2009. Nagqu is also on the Qinghai-Tibet railway line. It is expected to become the center of an economic hub in the plateau region. Nagqu has a population of 400,000.[1]

Administrative divisions

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#	Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Population (2003 est.)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
1	Nagqu County	那曲县	Nàqū Xiàn	ནག་ཆུ་རྫོང་	nag chu rdzong	80,000	16,195	5
2	Lhari County	嘉黎县	Jiālí Xiàn	ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་	lha ri rdzong	20,000	13,056	2
3	Biru County	比如县	Bǐrú Xiàn	འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་	'bri ru rdzong	40,000	11,680	3
4	Nyainrong County	聂荣县	Nièróng Xiàn	གཉན་རོང་རྫོང་	gnyan rong rdzong	30,000	9,017	3
5	Amdo County	安多县	Ānduō Xiàn	ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་	a mdo rdzong	30,000	43,411	1
6	Xainza County	申扎县	Shēnzhā Xiàn	ཤན་རྩ་རྫོང་	shan rtsa rdzong	20,000	25,546	1
7	Sog County	索县	Suǒ Xiàn	སོག་རྫོང་	sog rdzong	30,000	5,744	5
8	Baingoin County	班戈县	Bāngē Xiàn	དཔལ་མགོན་རྫོང་	dpal mgon rdzong	30,000	28,383	1
9	Baqên County	巴青县	Bāqīng Xiàn	སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་	sbra chen rdzong	40,000	10,326	4
10	Nyima County	尼玛县	Nímǎ Xiàn	ཉི་མ་རྫོང་	nyi ma rdzong	20,000	72,499	0
11	Shuanghu Special District	双湖特别区	Shuānghú Tèbié Qū	མཚོ་གཉིས་དོན་གཅོད་ཁྲུའུ་	mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u	10,000	116,637	0

References

1. ^ Nagqu, Chines Tibet Tourism bureau, accessed August 2009
2. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=14726.blog&csp=34

Coordinates: 31°30′N 92°00′E / 31.5°N 92°E / 31.5; 92