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Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County (天祝藏族自治县 Tiānzhù Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: -ཐེན་ཀྲུའུ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ / then kru bod rigs rang skyong khul)) is in the prefecture-level city of Wuwei in the Chinese province of Gansu. It has an area of 7,147km² and approximately 230,000 inhabitants (2003). Its administrative seat ("capital") is the town of Huazangsi.
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[edit] Ethnic groups in Tianzhu, 2000 census
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- A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 2. The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
- Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3
Coordinates: 37°08′39.73″N 102°46′38.50″E / 37.1443694°N 102.7773611°E / 37.1443694; 102.7773611
