Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

30°02′58″N 101°57′44″E / 30.0495°N 101.9623°E / 30.0495; 101.9623

དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ • Wylie transliterationdkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul • Tibetan pinyinGarzê Poirig Ranggyong KüCountryChinaProvinceSichuanPrefecture seatKangdingGovernment • TypeAutonomous prefecture • CCP SecretaryLiu Chengming • Congress ChairmanXiang Qiu • GovernorXiao Youcai • CPPCC ChairmanShu DachunArea • Total147,681.37 km² (57,020.10 sq mi)Population • Total1,107,431 • Density7.5/km² (19/sq mi)GDP^[2] • TotalCN¥ 21.3 billion
US$ 3.4 billion • Per capitaCN¥ 18,423
US$ 2,958Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)ISO 3166 codeCN-SC-33Websitewww.gzz.gov.cn

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

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,^[a] often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture,^[b] is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the north and northwest.^[3]

The prefecture's area is 151,078 square kilometres (58,332 sq mi). The population is approximately 880,000, with Tibetans accounting for 77.8% of the total population. The capital city of Garzê is Kangding (Dartsedo).

History

Garzê was traditionally part of the historical region of Kham.

During the period of rule by the Republic of China (1912–49), Garzê became nominally part of the province of Xikang, which included parts of former Kham.

In 1930, the Tibetan army invaded Garzê, 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.^[4][5] Chinese warlord Liu Wenhui reoccupied Garzê, and signed an agreement with the Tibetans formalizing his control of the area east of the upper Yangtze, which corresponds roughly with eastern Kham (see Sino-Tibetan War).^[6]

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 Garzê became an Autonomous Prefecture.^{[citation needed]}

Population

According to the census of 2000, Garzê had a registered 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%

Languages

Garzê is linguistically diverse, having many variants of Tibetan as well as several Qiangic languages:

• Kangding: Guiqiong, Muya
• Luding County: Muya
• Danba County: rGyalrong
• Jiulong County: Pumi (Southern)
• Yajiang County: Zhaba
• Dawu County: Horpa
• Xinlong County: Queyu

Religion

Tibetan Buddhism is historically the predominant religion practiced in Garzê.^[7] Some notable Gompas here include:

• Dzogchen Monastery
• Dzongsar Monastery
• Kandze Monastery
• Kharnang Monastery
• Nanwu Si Monastery
• Palpung Monastery
• Sershul Monastery
• Tongkor Monastery
• Larung Gar Buddhist Institute
• Yarchen Gar Buddhist Institute

Subdivisions

Garzê comprises 1 county-level city and 17 counties:

#	Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Population (2010 Census)	Area (km2)	Density (/km2)
1	Kangding City	康定市	Kāngdìng Shì	དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་	dar mdo grong khyer	130,142	11,486	11.33
2	Luding County	泸定县	Lúdìng Xiàn	ལྕགས་ཟམ་རྫོང་	lcags zam rdzong	83,386	2,165	38.51
3	Danba County	丹巴县	Dānbā Xiàn	རོང་བྲག་རྫོང་	rong brag rdzong	59,696	4,656	12.82
4	Jiulong County	九龙县	Jiǔlóng Xiàn	བརྒྱད་ཟུར་རྫོང་	brgyad zur rdzong	62,133	6,766	9.18
5	Yajiang County	雅江县	Yǎjiāng Xiàn	ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་	nyag chu rdzong	50,225	7,558	6.64
6	Dawu County (Daofu County)	道孚县	Dàofú Xiàn	རྟ་འུ་རྫོང་	rta 'u rdzong	55,396	7,053	7.85
7	Luhuo County	炉霍县	Lúhuò Xiàn	བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་	brag 'go rdzong	46,558	4,601	10.11
8	Garzê County (Ganzi County)	甘孜县	Gānzī Xiàn	དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་	dkar mdzes rdzong	68,523	7,303	9.38
9	Xinlong County	新龙县	Xīnlóng Xiàn	ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་	nyag rong rdzong	50,393	8,570	5.88
10	Dêgê County (Dege County)	德格县	Dégé Xiàn	སྡེ་དགེ་རྫོང་	sde dge rdzong	81,503	11,025	7.39
11	Baiyü County	白玉县	Báiyù Xiàn	དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་	dpal yul rdzong	56,290	10,386	5.41
12	Sêrxü County (Shiqu County)	石渠县	Shíqú Xiàn	སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་	ser shul rdzong	80,834	24,944	3.24
13	Sêrtar County (Seda County)	色达县	Sèdá Xiàn	གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་	gser thar rdzong	58,606	9,332	6.28
14	Litang County	理塘县	Lǐtáng Xiàn	ལི་ཐང་རྫོང་	li thang rdzong	69,046	13,677	5.04
15	Batang County	巴塘县	Bātáng Xiàn	འབའ་ཐང་རྫོང་	'ba' thang rdzong	48,649	7,852	6.19
16	Xiangcheng County	乡城县	Xiāngchéng Xiàn	ཕྱག་འཕྲེང་རྫོང་	phyag 'phreng rdzong	33,170	5,016	6.61
17	Daocheng County	稻城县	Dàochéng Xiàn	འདབ་པ་རྫོང་	'dab pa rdzong	31,113	7,323	4.24
18	Dêrong County	得荣县	Déróng Xiàn	སྡེ་རོང་རྫོང་	sde rong rdzong	26,209	2,916	8.98

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