Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

The Autonomous District Garzê (also Ganzi, Tib: dkar mdzes, Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས ) Tibetan (Chinese甘孜 藏族 自治州, Pinyin Ganzi Zangzu zizhizhou ) is located in northwest China's Sichuan Province and the Tibetan cultural region of Kham Act. " Kandse " is the Tibetan name in local pronunciation, according to the official phonetic spelling the PRC transcribed for the Tibetan language as Garzê. Its administrative seat is the large village in Lucheng District Kangding. Previously it was known as an important trading town under the name of Kangding, Dartsedo Darzêdo and Dajianlu ( Tatsienlu ). Garzê has an area of ​​151,078 km ².

Administrative Divisions

At county level, the Autonomous District is composed of eighteen counties:

Ethnic structure of the population ( 2000)

At the census in 2000 had 897 239 inhabitants Garzê ( population density. 5.94 inhab / km ²).

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