Ngari Prefecture

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Ngari Prefecture 阿里地区 · མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ། Ali Prefecture
Prefecture
Lake Manasarovar and Mount Naimona'nyi
Location of Ngari Prefecture within China
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture seat	Gar County (Shiquanhe)
Area
• Total	304,683 km2 (117,639 sq mi)
Population
• Total	95,465
• Density	0.31/km2 (0.81/sq mi)
GDP
• Total	CN¥ 3.7 billion US$ 0.6 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 36,378 US$ 5,841
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-XJ-25
Website	Ngari(Ali) Prefecture Government

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Ngari Prefecture (Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ།, Wylie: mnga' ris sa khul, ZYPY: ngari sakü) or Ali Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 阿里地区; traditional Chinese: 阿里地區; pinyin: Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Shiquanhe. It is one of the least densely populated areas in the world, with 0.3 people per kilometer (0.85 per mile).^{[citation needed]}