Jainca County
Jainca County, Chentsa County or Jainzha County (Tibetan: གཅན་ཚ།, Wylie: gcan tsha; Chinese: 尖扎县; pinyin: Jiānzhā Xiàn) is a county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China, to Tibetans in the area known as Malho Prefecture, part of Amdo. There are six townships, three towns and a total of 79 administrative villages in Chentsa county. The county has an area of 1714 square kilometres and a population of ~50,000 (2001), 67% Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Markhu Thang.
Jainca
尖扎县 · གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། Chentsa, Jainzha | |
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Lijiaxia lake in Janica | |
Jainca County (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
Jainca Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 35°56′18″N 102°02′00″E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Huangnan |
| County seat | Markhu Thang |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,714 km2 (662 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,990 m (6,530 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 58,173 |
| • Density | 34/km2 (88/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 811200 |
| Area code | 0973 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 尖扎县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 尖扎縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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