Baqên County

Baqên County (Tibetan: སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 巴青县) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is located in northeastern Tibet and borders with Qinghai.

Baqên County 巴青县 • སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Baqên County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Baqên Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region Show map of Tibet Baqên Baqên (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 32°35′41″N 93°55′49″E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Nagqu
County seat	Lhashé
Area
• Total	9,810.67 km2 (3,787.92 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	56,200
• Density	5.7/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.nqbqx.gov.cn

Baqên County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	巴青县
Traditional Chinese	巴青縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Bāqīng Xiàn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping baa1cing1 jyun2
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྦྲ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie sbra chen rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Baqên Zong

Administrative divisions

Baqên county contains 3 towns and 7 townships.

Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie
Towns
Lhashé Town	拉西镇	Lāxī zhèn	ལྷ་ཤེས་གྲོང་རྡལ།	lha shes grong rdal
Dzasib Town	杂色镇	Zásè zhèn	རྫ་སྲིབ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	rdza srib grong rdal
Ya'nga Town	雅安镇	Yǎ'ān zhèn	ཡ་ང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	ya nga grong rdal
Townships
Mamta Township	江绵乡	Jiāngmián xiāng	མམ་ཐ་ཤང་།	mam tha shang
Marru Township	玛如乡	Mǎrú xiāng	དམར་རུ་ཤང་།	dmar ru shang
Arshok Township	阿秀乡	Āxiù xiāng	ཨར་ཤོག་ཤང་།	ar shog shang
Gangri Township	贡日乡	Gòngrì xiāng	སྒང་རི་ཤང་།	sgor ri shang
Gangchen Township	岗切乡	Gǎngqiē xiāng	གངས་ཆེན་ཤང་།	gangs chen shang
Baqên Township[2]	巴青乡	Bāqīng xiāng	སྦྲ་ཆེན་ཤང་།	sbra chen shang
Bönta Township	本塔乡	Běntǎ xiāng	བོན་མཐའ་ཤང་།	bon mtha' shang

Transport

• China National Highway 317

References

1. "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
2. 张锐. "The voice from Tibet's Nagqu Prefecture". China.org.cn. Retrieved 2022-08-20.