Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

autonomous area, China

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The Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an administrative division within China's Sichuan province. It is one of three autonomous prefectures in Sichuan, alongside the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. While these autonomous prefectures are intended to allow ethnic minorities to preserve their language and cultural traditions, actual control is exercised by the central government. The capital of the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is Kangding.1

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…headquarters at Ma’erkang (Barkam); the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, with its capital at Kangding; and the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, with its capital at Xichang. As a rule, the autonomous prefectures represent little more than a symbolic cultural indulgence of local minorities. The actual control of the units is exercised…
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…headquarters at Ma’erkang (Barkam); the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, with its capital at Kangding; and the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, with its capital at Xichang. As a rule, the autonomous prefectures represent little more than a symbolic cultural indulgence of local minorities. The actual control of the units is exercised…
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