Gyantse County
Gyangzê County
江孜县 • རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། Gyangtse | |
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.png) Location of Gyantse County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Gyantse Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region  Gyantse Gyantse (China) | |
| Coordinates: 28°53′45″N 89°37′33″E / 28.89583°N 89.62583°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Gyantse |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,849.23 km2 (1,486.20 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 68,650 |
| • Density | 18/km2 (46/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Gyantse County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 江孜县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 江孜縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Gyantse County officially Gyangzê County (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 江孜县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its main settlement is Gyantse Town known for its monasteries.[2]
Administration divisions
[edit]Gyantse County is divided into 1 town and 18 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Town | ||||||
| Gyangzê Town (Gyantse) |
江孜镇 | Jiāngzī zhèn | རྒྱལ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rgyal rtse grong rdal | ||
| Townships | ||||||
| Naröl Township | 纳如乡 | Nàrú xiāng | ན་རོལ་ཤང་། | na rol shang | ||
| Karmai Township | 卡麦乡 | Kǎmài xiāng | མཁར་སྨད་ཤང་། | mkhar smad shang | ||
| Kardoi Township | 卡堆乡 | Kǎduī xiāng | མཁར་སྟོད་ཤང་། | mkhar stod shang | ||
| Tsangkha Township | 藏改乡 | Zànggǎi xiāng | གཙང་ཁ་ཤང་། | gtsang kha shang | ||
| Rinang Township | 日朗乡 | Rìlǎng xiāng | རི་ནང་ཤང་། | ri nang shang | ||
| Dagzê Township | 达孜乡 | Dázī xiāng | སྟག་རྩེ་ཤང་། | stag rtse shang | ||
| Rasog Township | 热索乡 | Rèsuǒ xiāng | ར་སོག་ཤང་། | ra sog shang | ||
| Drongtsé Township | 重孜乡 | Chóngzī xiāng | འབྲོང་རྩེ་ཤང་། | 'brong rtse shang | ||
| Lungmar Township | 龙马乡 | Lóngmǎ xiāng | ལུང་དམར་ཤང་། | lung dmar shang | ||
| Jaggyê Township | 加克西乡 | Jiākèxī xiāng | ལྕགས་སྒྱེ་ཤང་། | lcangs skye shang | ||
| Tsechen Township | 紫金乡 | Zǐjīn xiāng | རྩེ་ཆེན་ཤང་། | rtse chen shang | ||
| Jangra Township | 江热乡 | Jiāngrè xiāng | ལྕང་ར་ཤང་། | lcang ra shang | ||
| Nyangdoi Township | 年堆乡 | Niánduī xiāng | མྱང་སྟོད་ཤང་། | myang stod shang | ||
| Kangco Township | 康卓乡 | Kāngzhuó xiāng | གངས་མཚོ་ཤང་། | gangs mtsho shang | ||
| Gyinkar Township | 金嘎乡 | Jīngā xiāng | དཀྱིལ་མཁར་ཤང་། | dkyil mkhar shang | ||
| Rizhing Township | 日星乡 | Rìxīng xiāng | རི་ཞིང་ཤང་། | ri zhing shang | ||
| Charing Township | 车仁乡 | Chērén xiāng | ཁྲ་རིང་ཤང་། | khra ring shang | ||
| Ralung Township | 热龙乡 | Rèlóng xiāng | ར་ལུང་ཤང་། | ra lung shang | ||
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for Gyantse, elevation 4,040 m (13,250 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.0 (62.6) |
17.3 (63.1) |
22.1 (71.8) |
23.2 (73.8) |
25.9 (78.6) |
28.7 (83.7) |
28.2 (82.8) |
25.4 (77.7) |
24.6 (76.3) |
21.9 (71.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
16.1 (61.0) |
28.7 (83.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) |
7.6 (45.7) |
10.7 (51.3) |
13.9 (57.0) |
17.7 (63.9) |
21.1 (70.0) |
20.5 (68.9) |
19.7 (67.5) |
18.9 (66.0) |
15.4 (59.7) |
10.6 (51.1) |
7.3 (45.1) |
14.1 (57.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.8 (25.2) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
2.6 (36.7) |
5.7 (42.3) |
9.6 (49.3) |
13.2 (55.8) |
13.0 (55.4) |
12.1 (53.8) |
10.8 (51.4) |
6.6 (43.9) |
0.8 (33.4) |
−2.9 (26.8) |
5.6 (42.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −13.1 (8.4) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
−5.8 (21.6) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
2.1 (35.8) |
6.1 (43.0) |
7.4 (45.3) |
6.6 (43.9) |
4.2 (39.6) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−2.0 (28.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −23.9 (−11.0) |
−20.4 (−4.7) |
−16.2 (2.8) |
−12.6 (9.3) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
−11.6 (11.1) |
−14.0 (6.8) |
−21.4 (−6.5) |
−23.9 (−11.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.3 (0.01) |
0.5 (0.02) |
1.7 (0.07) |
7.7 (0.30) |
16.9 (0.67) |
37.7 (1.48) |
89.3 (3.52) |
89.2 (3.51) |
34.7 (1.37) |
3.5 (0.14) |
0.5 (0.02) |
1.8 (0.07) |
283.8 (11.18) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 4.0 | 6.6 | 10.9 | 18.8 | 18.5 | 10.7 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 74.6 |
| Average snowy days | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 16.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 30 | 30 | 33 | 40 | 46 | 54 | 67 | 70 | 62 | 45 | 38 | 38 | 46 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 272.2 | 251.5 | 276.2 | 273.1 | 295.9 | 273.4 | 224.6 | 224.6 | 244.3 | 294.0 | 283.6 | 280.9 | 3,194.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 83 | 79 | 74 | 70 | 70 | 66 | 53 | 56 | 67 | 84 | 89 | 88 | 73 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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