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Ganzi

Ganzi county is in the northwest of Sichuan province, its highest point is 5688 meters (the height of the peak of Mt. Gong-jia-ri) and its lowest point is 3325 meters at Jia-Yi village of Sexidi 'Xiang'.

to its north is Shiqu county, Seda county and Qinghai province, to its west is Dege county, to its south is Xinlong county and Baiyu county, to its east is Luhuo county, and its total land area is 7358 square kilometers

it annual temperature is around 5.6 centigrade, its annual rainfall is 636.5 mini meters, the total timeo ffrost free is around 35 days, but Ganzi county has sunshine time over 2640 hoursyearly.

in Ganzi county, there are 11 nationalities, and its total population is 57557. tibetans counts for 95.3%.

in ganzi, there is one famous monastery of tibetan buddhism, it is Lazha monastery, belonging to Nyingmapa sect, and it is one of the 11 most well known Nyingmapa monastic complexes in Ganzi tibetan prefecture; this monastery is built at Chalong village of Datongma sttrict of Ganzi county on Datongma grassland, which is about 100 kilometers to the northwest of Ganzi county.