Jinchuan County (; ) is a county in the northwest 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. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. The seat of county is Jinchuan Town (Rabden). The county spans an area of 5,524 square kilometers, and has a population of about 73,000 as of 2019. 神奇的光影-爵士鼓手_-_panoramio

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into 3

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and 19

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. These township-level divisions are further divided into 112

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Towns

The county's 3 towns are as follows: * * *

Townships

The county's 19 townships are as follows: * * Qingning Township * * * Hedong Township * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

History

Prior to the 18th century, Greater Jinchuan was ruled by the Gyalrong Tibetan Chiefdom of Chuchen. In 1700, the kingdom of

Trokyap Trokyap ( Tibetan: ''khro skyabs'') or Chuosi was a Gyalrong Tibetan kingdom located in today's southern Zamthang County and north of Jinchuan County of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province of China. It was on ...

submitted to the Qing rule. From 1747 to 1776, the

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

launched the Jinchuan campaigns to suppress the Jinchuan chiefdoms. The county briefly belonged to the Revolutionary Government of the until 1935. In 1950, the

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conquered the county. The county was briefly renamed Dajinchuan County () from 1953 to June 1959.

Geography

The county is bordered by Barkam to the north,

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to the east,

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to the west, and Dawu County and

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to the south. The county lies within the

Dadu River The Dadu River (), known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu, is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min River, a t ...

basin. 42% of the county is forested.

Climate

References

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture County-level divisions of Sichuan {{Sichuan-geo-stub