Wenchuan County

Wenchuan County
Wenchuan County
Chinese name
Chinese	汶川
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wènchuān
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཝུན་ཁྲོན།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	wun khron
Tibetan Pinyin	Wünchoin
Qiang name
Qiang	Kvusa

Wenchuan County

汶川县
ཝུན་ཁྲོན་རྫོང་།
Kvusa
Wenchuan County 汶川县 ཝུན་ཁྲོན་རྫོང་། Kvusa
County
	Wenchuan panorama in 2013
	Location of Wenchuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
	Wenchuan Location of the seat in Sichuan Wenchuan Wenchuan (China)
	Coordinates: 31°28′37″N 103°35′24″E / 31.477°N 103.590°E
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Ngawa
County seat	Weizhou
Area
• Total	4,804 km2 (1,855 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	82,971
• Density	17/km2 (45/sq mi)
• Major nationalities	Qiang - 39.5%; Han - 38.7%; Tibetan - 20.4%; Hui - 1.1%; Others - 0.3%
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	623000
Area code	0837
Website	www.wenchuan.gov.cn

Wenchuan County is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China.

The county has an area of 4,084 square kilometres (1,577 sq mi),^[5] and a population of 100,771 as of 2010.^[6]

Wolong National Nature Reserve is a protected area located in Wenchuan County, which houses more than 150 highly endangered giant pandas. The Wolong Special Administrative Region is also located here.

The county was the site of the epicentre and one of the areas most severely hit by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, also known as the Wenchuan earthquake.^[7]

^ "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
^ 现代汉语词典(第七版). [A Dictionary of Current Chinese (Seventh Edition).]. 北京. Beijing: 商务印书馆. The Commercial Press. 1 September 2016. p. 1376. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8. 2 汶川（Wèn- chuān），地名，在四川。
^ 现代汉语规范词典(第3版). [A Standard Dictionary of Current Chinese (Third Edition).]. 北京. Beijing: 外语教学与研究出版社. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. May 2014. p. 1378. ISBN 978-7-513-54562-4. 汶 wèn{...}2 用于地名。如汶川，在四川。
^ 夏征农; 陈至立, eds. (September 2009). 辞海：第六版彩图本 [Cihai (Sixth Edition in Color)] (in Chinese). 上海. Shanghai: 上海辞书出版社. Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House. p. 2389. ISBN 9787532628599.
^ 汶川简介 [Wenchuan Introduction] (in Chinese). Wenchuan County People's Government. 2021-05-06. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Fan, Xuanmei; Juang, C. Hsein; Wasowski, Janusz; Huang, Runqiu; Xu, Qiang; Scaringi, Gianvito; van Westen, Cees J.; Havenith, Hans-Balder (2018-07-26). "What we have learned from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and its aftermath: A decade of research and challenges". Engineering Geology. 241: 25–32. doi:10.1016/j.enggeo.2018.05.004. ISSN 0013-7952. S2CID 134786927.

[1] "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.

[2] 现代汉语词典(第七版). [A Dictionary of Current Chinese (Seventh Edition).]. 北京. Beijing: 商务印书馆. The Commercial Press. 1 September 2016. p. 1376. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8. 2 汶川（Wèn- chuān），地名，在四川。

[3] 现代汉语规范词典(第3版). [A Standard Dictionary of Current Chinese (Third Edition).]. 北京. Beijing: 外语教学与研究出版社. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. May 2014. p. 1378. ISBN 978-7-513-54562-4. 汶 wèn{...}2 用于地名。如汶川，在四川。

[cihai-4] 夏征农; 陈至立, eds. (September 2009). 辞海：第六版彩图本 [Cihai (Sixth Edition in Color)] (in Chinese). 上海. Shanghai: 上海辞书出版社. Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House. p. 2389. ISBN 9787532628599.

[:1-5] 汶川简介 [Wenchuan Introduction] (in Chinese). Wenchuan County People's Government. 2021-05-06. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.

[:3-6] Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[:0-7] Fan, Xuanmei; Juang, C. Hsein; Wasowski, Janusz; Huang, Runqiu; Xu, Qiang; Scaringi, Gianvito; van Westen, Cees J.; Havenith, Hans-Balder (2018-07-26). "What we have learned from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and its aftermath: A decade of research and challenges". Engineering Geology. 241: 25–32. doi:10.1016/j.enggeo.2018.05.004. ISSN 0013-7952. S2CID 134786927.

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