Ngawa Town

32°54′N 101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°E / 32.900; 101.700

Ngawa or Aba town (Chinese: 阿坝镇; pinyin: Ābà Zhèn Standard Tibetan: Ngawa) is the seat of Ngawa (Aba) County, within the Ngawa (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of 3,200 metres (10,500 ft). The city is about 75 km (47 mi) from Jigdril, 254 km from Barkham (Ma'erkang) and 157 km (98 mi) from Mewa (Hongyuan).

Ngawa (Aba) town has about 14,000 inhabitants as of 2009. There are 37 monasteries and nunneries in the area, two of the largest in Ngawa (Aba) town itself. There are mainly grasslands and forested valleys in the south.

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