Nangqên County

• Name — Nangqên County • Other Name — Nangchen • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Postal Code — 815200 • Settlement Type — County • Image Skyline — View from Gar monastery (Ga'er in Chinese), Nangqên county.jpg • Image Map — Location of Nangqên within Qinghai (China).png • Map Caption — Location of Nangqên County (red) within Yushu Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai • Pushpin Map — China Qinghai • Pushpin Label — Nangqên • Pushpin Map Caption — Location of the seat in Qinghai • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — China • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — Qinghai • Subdivision Type2 — Autonomous prefecture • Subdivision Name2 — Yushu • Seat Type — County seat • Seat — Xangda • Area Total Km2 — 12741 • Population As Of — 2020 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Population Total — 90307 • Timezone — China Standard • Utc Offset — +8 • Website — http: www.nangqian.gov.cn/

• Wylie — nang chen rdzong • Zwpy — Nangqên Zong • Order — st Nangqên County, or Nangchen, is currently a county of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is the southernmost county-level division of Qinghai province, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. Until 1955, the region was known as the Kingdom of Nangchen. It was one of the five kingdoms of the historical region of Do Kham. The county seat is Sharnda, or Shamda (Tibetan: ཤར་མདའ་, Chinese: 香达, pinyin: Xiangda), built in a side valley and on the right bank of the Dza Chu (upper reaches of the Mekong). In 2000, the county's population amounted to people, inhabiting a surface of 11539 km2. • Illustration — Sharnda city center

The county's name is derived from the former king (nang chen rgyal po) and Kingdom of Nangchen, a tribal confederation that emerged as a unified Buddhist kingdom in the 13th century. The present-day's county comprises the core area of the old kingdom of Nangchen. Memories of the Kingdom of Nangchen play a role among Tibetan refugees who came to India from the area. Scholar Maria Turek reported that in 2015 she heard about “a man who went to various Tibetan communities in India, introducing himself as ‘the king of Nangchen’ not without some success, even though he had no credentials to prove his claim.” The last king of Nangchen, Tashi Tsewang, stayed in power in the region after the 1955 official disestablishment of the Kingdom. Between 1956 and 1959, he sent soldiers fighting against communist Chinese in the Kham rebellion, a troubled episode before the 1959 Tibetan uprising. He died during the Cultural revolution. • Illustration — House of the last King of Nangchen, located at Tsechu monastery. A Yelpa Kagyu monastery, Tana Monastery (Jang Tana), was founded by Yelpa Yeshe Tsek in 1068. It is considered a branch monastery of Tsurpu. • Illustration — Tana Monastery (Jang Tana)

While most of Qinghai Tibetans are of Amdo culture, Nangchen, and more broadly the Yushu prefecture, is of Kham culture and its people speak Kham dialect. Most of Tibetan areas are dominated by the Gelug movement (often called yellow-hats) of Tibetan buddhism, but in Nangchen, the Kagyu movement (part of the red-hats) is the majority. • Illustration — Kagyupa monks in Tsechu monastery (Caijiu in Chinese), Nangchen county. • Illustration — Gar monastery (Kagyu school), Nangchen county.

• Name — Simplified Chinese — Hanyu Pinyin — Tibetan — Wylie — Administrative division code • Town • Xangda Town (Xarda, Xiangda) — 香达镇 — Xiāngdá Zhèn — ཤར་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། — shar mda' grong rdal — 632725100 • Townships • Zhêca Township (Baizha, Bêca) — 白扎乡 — Báizhā Xiāng — སྤྲེལ་ཚྭ་ཞང་། — sprel tshwa zhang — 632725200 • Jiqu Township — 吉曲乡 — Jíqǔ Xiāng — ལྕི་ཆུ་ཞང་། — lci chu zhang — 632725201 • Nyagla Township (Niangla) — 娘拉乡 — Niánglā Xiāng — ཉག་ར་ཞང་། — nyag ra zhang — 632725202 • Mozhong Township (Maozhuang) — 毛庄乡 — Máozhuāng Xiāng — མོའོ་གྲོང་ཞང་། — mo'o grong zhang — 632725203 • Gyozhag Township (Juela) — 觉拉乡 — Juélā Xiāng — སྐྱོ་བྲག་ཞང་། — skyo brag zhang — 632725204 • Domba Township (Dongba) — 东坝乡 — Dōngbà Xiāng — སྡོམ་པ་ཞང་། — sdom pa zhang — 632725205 • Gaxung Township (Gayang) — 尕羊乡 — Gǎyáng Xiāng — ཀ་གཞུང་ཞང་། — ka gzhung zhang — 632725206 • Ji'nyinsib Township (Jinisai) — 吉尼赛乡 — Jínísài Xiāng — ལྕི་ཉིན་སྲིབ་ཞང་། — lci nyin srib zhang — 632725207 • Zhongxog Township (Zhogxog, Zhuoxiao) — 着晓乡 — Zhuóxiǎo Xiāng — འབྲོང་ཤོག་ཞང་། — 'brong shog zhang — 632725208

Nangqên has a dry-winter humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb) featuring freezing, clear and dry winters, mild, rainy and cloudier summers, and substantial diurnal temperature variation throughout the year.

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