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.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Barkam
- Settlement.native_name
- · · Muerkvua shi
- Settlement.other_name
- Ma'erkang
- Settlement.postal_code
- 624000
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
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- Sichuan#China
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- Location of the seat in Sichuan
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Barkam
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.seat
- Barkam Town
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Maerkang City.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- 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
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county of China
- Official name
- འབར་ཁམས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Country
- China
- Population
- 58390
- Area
- 6625.81
- Elevation
- 2615
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.maerkang.gov.cn
- Image
- Maerkang City.jpg
- Dialing code
- 837
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- postal code
- 624000
- Commons category
- Barkam
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- People's Republic of China
- Geography
- Fauna
- Climate
- Administrative divisions
- Demographics
- Economy
- Transport
- Tourism
- Notes
- External links
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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barkam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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