Jiuzhaigou County ( zh, s=九寨沟县; ; Qiang: Rrggucua) is a county of

Sichuan Province Sichuan is a Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capita ...

, China. It is under the administration of the

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (; Qiang language, Qiang: ; zh, s=阿坝藏族羌族自治州, t=阿壩藏族羌族自治州), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and ...

. Formerly called Nanping County ( zh, labels=no , s=南坪县 , p=Nánpíng Xiàn), it was renamed in 1998 to reflect the fact that the

Jiuzhaigou Valley Jiuzhaigou (; ) is a nature reserve and national park located in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. A long valley running north to south, Jiuzhaigou was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1992 and a World Biosphere ...

is located within its administration. The county seat, , was created in 2013 by the merger of Yongle Town (), Yongfeng Township (), and Anle Township (). The county consists of nine villages in a valley in Sichuan Province. The main ethnic group in the county is Han, with the second being

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. The county seat has an altitude of about . It has a total area of . As of 2015, the county's total population was 67,519.

Administrative divisions

Jiuzhaigou County contains fives

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, seven

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, and two other

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Climate

References

External links

The official website of Jiuzhaigou County Government
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture County-level divisions of Sichuan Long stubs with short prose {{Sichuan-geo-stub