Sewu, Tibet

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Sewu
Township
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Sewu
Location within Tibet
Coordinates: 33°41′N90°19′E / 33.68°N 90.31°E / 33.68; 90.31 Coordinates: 33°41′N90°19′E / 33.68°N 90.31°E / 33.68; 90.31
Country China
Region Tibet
Prefecture Nagqu Prefecture
County Amdo County
Area
  Total 5,647 km2 (2,180 sq mi)
Population (2004)
  Total 1,000
   Major Nationalities Tibetan
   Regional dialect Tibetan language
Time zone +8

Sewu, Sêwa or Sewuxiang (Chinese :色务乡) is a village and township-level division of Amdo County in the Nagqu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in China. It lies near Qixiang Lake. [1] The township covers an area of 5,647 kilometres (3,509 mi) and in 2004 it had a population of about 1,000. [2] The principal economic activity is animal husbandry, pastoral yak, goat, sheep, and so on. [3]

Chinese language family of languages

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

Amdo County County in Tibet, Peoples Republic of China

Amdo County is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843.

Tibet Autonomous Region Autonomous region

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region in southwest China. It was formally established in 1965 to replace the Tibet Area, an administrative division the People's Republic of China inherited from the Republic of China (ROC), about five years after the dismissal of the Kashag by the PRC following the 1959 Tibetan uprising, and about 13 years from the Tibet's incorporation into the PRC in 1951.

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Administrative divisions

The township-level division contains the following villages: [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Sewu Township". CF Guide. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. 色务乡 (in Chinese). Chinaquhua.cn. Retrieved 29 May 2012.