Ngari Prefecture
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prefecture in China's Tibet Autonomous Region
Key facts
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Autonomous region
- Tibet
- Prefecture seat
- Shiquanhe , Gar County
- Total
- 304,683 km (117,639 sq mi)
- Density
- 0.404621/km (1.04796/sq mi)
- Per capita
- CN¥ 74,000, US$ 10,000
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( China Standard )
- Iso 3166 code
- CN-XJ-25
- Website
- Ngari (Ali) Prefecture Administrative Office
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- prefecture
- Official name
- མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ།
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Contains
- Coqên County
- Population
- 123281
- Area
- 337174.95
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.xzali.gov.cn
- Image
- South of Huo'er, Tibet.jpg
- Dialing code
- 897
- Licence plate code
- 藏F
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- postal code
- 859000
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Encyclopedic overview
Ngari Prefecture (Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ།, Wylie: mnga' ris sa khul, ZWPY: 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 0.4 people per square kilometer (1.0 per square mile).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ngari Prefecture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.