Hongyuan County

Gakog County is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. There is a river called Ka Chu/Gaqu in the area and kog means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the Ga River.
This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely yak herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is. About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside mostly Amdo Tibetan. The language is spoken is one of the most conservative dialect among the Amdo Tibetan varieties. The county seat is .
Southwest University for Nationalities maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County.
The country is served by Aba Hongyuan Airport.

Governance

The Hongyuan County Public Security Bureau is the primary law enforcement agency in Hongyuan county. It operates 10 police stations and 1 Jail along with a traffic police unit, a forestry unit and a plains unit. As of 2016, the forestry unit had 16 officers.

On 15 March 2020, a officer of the forestry unit died due to duty-related illness.

The Hongyuan [County Fire and Rescue Battalion] provides firefighting and rescue services within the county.

Hongyuan has a subarctic climate with short, mild summers and cold winters, although not as cold as subarctic climates at higher latitudes. It is affected by the Asian Monsoon.