Nagchu

Nagqu 那曲市 • ནག་ཆུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Prefecture-level city
Nagqu Railway Station
Nagqu (orange) in Tibet Autonomous Region (light-orange)
Coordinates: Coordinates: 31°28′34″N 92°03′05″E / 31.4761110289°N 92.0513207015°E / 31.4761110289; 92.0513207015
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Tibet
County-level divisions	a district and 10 counties
City seat	Seni District
Area
• Total	450,537 km2 (173,953 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	462,381
• Density	1.0/km2 (2.7/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
ISO 3166 code	CN-XZ-06
Website	www.xznq.gov.cn

Nagqu (also Naqu or Nagchu; Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ།, Wylie: Nag-chu; Chinese: 那曲; literally: "black river") is a prefecture-level city in the Chinese Autonomous region of Tibet. The former Nagqu Prefecture ceased to be as a separted prefecture, the prefecture-level city of Nagqu was approved to establish by the State Council on October 2, 2017 and officially established on May 7, 2018. Nagqu is the sixth prefecture-level city in Tibet after Lhasa, Shigatse, Chamdo, Nyingchi and Shannan, and it is also the prefecture-level city with the highest altitude.

The prefecture-level city of Nagqu is located in the northeast of Tibet, it is bordered by Bayingolin and Hotan Prefectures of Xinjiang to the north, Haixi, Yushu Prefectures of Qinghai and Chamdo to the east, Nyingchi, Lhasa and Shigatse to the south, Ngari Prefecture to the west. it covers an area of 450,537 km² (173,953 sq mi) with a population of 462,381 (as of 2010 census).