Barkam
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Barkam or Maerkang or Muerkvua is a county-level city in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in the northwest part of Sichuan province, China. The city seat is the town of Barkam. As of the 2010 Chinese Census, Barkam has a population of 58,437.
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- Barkam
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- · · Muerkvua shi
- Settlement.other_name
- Ma'erkang
- Settlement.postal_code
- 624000
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- Sichuan#China
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- Location of the seat in Sichuan
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- Barkam
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- 250
- Settlement.seat
- Barkam Town
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- County-level city
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- Maerkang City.jpg
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- 250px
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- Overview of the city of Barkam
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- Location of Barkam within Sichuan (China).png
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- Barkam City (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
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- 250px
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- Country
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- Official name
- འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Population
- 58390
- Area
- 6625.81
- Elevation
- 2615
- Official website
- www.maerkang.gov.cn
- Image
- Maerkang City.jpg
- Dialing code
- 837
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- postal code
- 624000
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- Barkam
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Barkam or Maerkang or Muerkvua is a county-level city in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in the northwest part of Sichuan province, China. The city seat is the town of Barkam. As of the 2010 Chinese Census, Barkam has a population of 58,437.
== Toponymy == Barkam comes from the Tibetan "place of strong fire" and, by extension, "place of prosperity".
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