Qabqa

Qabqa or Chabcha
恰卜恰镇 · ཆབ་ཆ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
Town
Qabqa or Chabcha
Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Coordinates: 36°16′N 100°37′E / 36.267°N 100.617°E / 36.267; 100.617Coordinates: 36°16′N 100°37′E / 36.267°N 100.617°E / 36.267; 100.617
Country People's Republic of China
Province Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture Hainan
County Gonghe
Elevation 2,835 m (9,301 ft)
Population (2010)
  Total 46,907
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)

Qabqa or Chabcha[1] (Tibetan: ཆབ་ཆ་གྲོང་རྡལ། ; Chinese: 恰卜恰; pinyin: Qiàbǔqià) is a town in Gonghe County, Qinghai, China. It is the seat of the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the seat of Gonghe County. Qabqa has an altitude of 2835 m.[2] The average annual temperature is 3.4 °C (38.1 °F), and the average annual precipitation is 321.4 mm (12.65 in).[3]

Qabqa had a population of 46,907 as of 2010.[3] Qabqa is the political, economical, and cultural center of the Hainan Prefecture.[4] China National Highway 214 passes through Qabqa.

References

  1. Committee, Canada Tibet. "Canada Tibet Committee | Library | WTN | Archive | Old". www.tibet.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  2. "青海省气象台站建站以来站址变迁记载" by 刘蓓 and 阎萍
  3. 1 2 http://www.qhgh.gov.cn/html/5003/262711.html
  4. http://www.qhgh.gov.cn/html/1792/206066.html
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