Heishui County
黑水县 • ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། • Vvlukvua Choqu | |
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![]() Location of Heishui County (light red) in Aba (yellow) and Sichuan (light gray) | |
Coordinates: 32°14′07″N 103°03′20″E / 32.23528°N 103.05556°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Sichuan |
Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
County seat | Doka (Luhua) |
Area | |
• Total | 4,356 km2 (1,682 sq mi) |
Elevation | 3,544 m (11,627 ft) |
Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 44,564 |
• Density | 10/km2 (26/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Heishui County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 黑水县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 黑水縣 | ||||||
Literal meaning | black water | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Qiang name | |||||||
Qiang | Vvlukvua |
Heishui County (Chinese: 黑水县; Tibetan: ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།; Qiang: Vvlukvua) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.[3] The county has an area of 1,682 square miles (4,356 km2) and its average elevation is 11,627 feet (3,544 m).[1] As of 2016, the county has a population of 61,744.[4]