Jainca County
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Jainca 尖扎县 · གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། |
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| Coordinates: 35°56′18″N 102°02′00″E / 35.93833°N 102.03333°ECoordinates: 35°56′18″N 102°02′00″E / 35.93833°N 102.03333°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Huangnan |
| County seat | Markhu Thang |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,714 km2 (662 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,990 m (6,530 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 55,325 |
| • Density | 32/km2 (84/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 811200 |
| Area code(s) | 0973 |
Jainzha County or Chentsa County (Tibetan: གཅན་ཚ།: Wylie: gcan tsha; Chinese: 尖扎县, pinyin: Jiānzhā Xiàn) is a county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China, to Tibetans in the area known as Malho Prefecture, part of Amdo. There are 6 townships, 3 towns and a total of 79 administrative villages in Chentsa county. The county has an area of 1714 square kilometres and a population of ~50,000 (2001), 67% Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Markhu Thang (Tibetan: མར་ཁུ་ཐང་།, Wylie: mar khu thang; Chinese: 马克堂, pinyin: Maketang).
Jainca County has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) and it had the extreme high temperature at Qinghai of 40.3 °C(104.5 °F) on July 24, 2000.
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