Meigu County ( zh, s=美姑县; ) is a part of the

Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture (Nuosu language, Northern Yi: /nɛ˨˩ʂa˧/) is an autonomous prefecture occupying much of the southern extremity of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. Its seat is Xichang. Liangshan covers an area o ...

in the south of

Sichuan Sichuan is a 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 capital city is Cheng ...

province. Located in the northeast of Liangshan Prefecture, it has a major concentration of the Nuosu or

Yi people The Yi or Nuosu people (Nuosu language, Nuosu: , ; see also #Names and subgroups, § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in South China, southern China. Numbering nine million people, they are the seventh largest of the 55 Ethnic minorit ...

. The county is largely mountainous. It is a poor area and Many '' bimo'' practitioner live in this county, and it is home to the Cultural Centre for Bimo Studies.

Administrative divisions

Meigu County comprises 7

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and 11

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Points of interest

* Dafengding Nature Reserve (panda and bird habitat)

Climate

References

External links

Land Occupation and Resettlement Plan

Prefectural page on Meigu County
(''in Chinese'') {{authority control County-level divisions of Sichuan Yi people Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture