Nyagqu or Nyachukha County (, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka) or Yajiang County (), named after
Nyagchukha in Tibetan, is a county of the traditional
Kham
Kham (; )
is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas (), and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham ...
Region of eastern Tibet. It is currently under the administration of the
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, 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 ...
, in the west of
Sichuan Province
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China.
Climate
References
Populated places in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
County-level divisions of Sichuan
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