Qabqa

Qabqa or Chabcha^[2] (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.^[3] The average annual temperature is 3.4 °C (38.1 °F), and the average annual precipitation is 321.4 mm (12.65 in).^[4]

Qabqa 恰卜恰镇 · ཆབ་ཆ་གྲོང་རྡལ། Chabcha
Town
Qabqa Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Coordinates: 36°16′N 100°37′E
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Hainan
County	Gonghe
Area [1]
• Total	7.3 km2 (2.8 sq mi)
Elevation	2,835 m (9,301 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Total	46,907
• Density	6,400/km2 (17,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Qabqa had a population of 46,907 as of 2010.^[4] Qabqa is the political, economical, and cultural center of the Hainan Prefecture.^[5] China National Highway 214 passes through Qabqa.