Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County

Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County (Tibetan: དཔའ་རིས་བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང༌།), also known as Tianzhu from its Chinese name (Chinese: 天祝藏族自治县), is in the prefecture-level city of Wuwei in the central part of Gansu province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the south and west. It has an area of 7,147 km2 (2,759 sq mi) and approximately 230,000 inhabitants (2003). Its administrative seat is Rabgyai Town (Huazangsi).

Bairi County
དཔའ་རིས་རྫོང་ · 天祝县
Tianzhu
དཔའ་རིས་བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང༌། · 天祝藏族自治县
Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County
Bairi County (red) within Wuwei City (yellow) and Gansu
Bairi County
Location in Gansu
Bairi County
Bairi County (China)
Coordinates: 36°58′18″N 103°08′31″E
CountryChina
ProvinceGansu
Prefecture-level cityWuwei
County seatRabgyai (Huazangsi)
Area
  Total7,149 km2 (2,760 sq mi)
Highest elevation
4,874 m (15,991 ft)
Lowest elevation
2,040 m (6,690 ft)
Population
 (2020)
  Total151,031
  Density21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
733200
Websitewww.gstianzhu.gov.cn
Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese天祝藏族自治县
Traditional Chinese天祝藏族自治縣
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese华锐
Traditional Chinese華銳
Tibetan name
Tibetanདཔའ་རིས་བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང༌།
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