Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture

Aba Prefecture 阿坝州 · རྔ་བ་ཁུལ། · Rrmeabba Legea
Autonomous prefecture
阿坝藏族羌族自治州 · རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། · Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Jiuzhaigou National Park
Ngawa-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (top centre) in Sichuan
Coordinates (Ngawa Prefecture government): 31°54′N 102°13′E / 31.90°N 102.22°E / 31.90; 102.22
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Prefecture seat	Barkam (Barkam Town)
Government
• Type	Autonomous prefecture
• CCP Secretary	Xu Zhivin
• Congress Chairman	Luo Zhenhua
• Governor	Yang Kening
• CPPCC Chairman	Nyima Mu
Area
• Total	83,201 km2 (32,124 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	895,200
• Density	11/km2 (28/sq mi)
• Major Ethnic Groups	Tibetan−60.2% Han−18.0% Qiang- 18.5% Hui−3.1%
GDP[1]
• Total	CN¥ 26.5 billion US$ 4.3 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 28,647 US$ 4,599
Time zone	UTC+08:00 (China Standard)
Area code	0837
ISO 3166 code	CN-SC-32
License Plate Prefix	川U
Website	Aba China

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།, Wylie: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ang rigs rang skyong khul; Qiang: Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea; simplified Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; traditional Chinese: 阿壩藏族羌族自治州), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest. Its seat is in Barkam, and it has an area of 83,201 km² (32,124 sq mi). The population was 895,200 by 2022.^[2]

The county of Wenchuan in Ngawa is the site of the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in which over 20,000 of its residents died and 40,000 were injured.