Qabqa

Qabqa, also written Chabcha, is a town in Gonghe County in Qinghai Province, China, and serves as the seat of both Gonghe County and the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It stands on the high Qinghai plateau at an altitude of 2835 metres, which gives it a cold, dry climate with an average annual temperature of 3.4 degrees Celsius and about 321 millimetres of precipitation a year. At the 2010 count it had 46,907 inhabitants. The source describes it as the political, economic and cultural center of the Hainan Prefecture, and China National Highway 214 passes through the town.