Amdo County (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་; Chinese:
Amdo County
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Coordinates: 32°15′50″N 91°40′50″E / 32.26389°N 91.68056°E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
County seat | Pagnag |
Area | |
• Total | 43,410.85 km2 (16,761.02 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 39,683 |
• Density | 0.91/km2 (2.4/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
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Its capital is Amdo Town, north of Lhasa. It contains the Amdo railway station on the new railway from Golmud to Lhasa. There is a major rail depot 3 km (1.9 mi) west of the town. Cona Lake lies to the southwest of the town of Amdo.
Administrative divisions
editAmdo county contains the following 4 towns and 9 townships:
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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Towns | ||||
Pagnag Town | 帕那镇 | Pànà zhèn | བྲག་ནག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag nag grong rdal |
Qangma Town | Qiángmǎ zhèn | བྱང་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | byang ma grong rdal | |
Zaring Town | 扎仁镇 | Zhārén zhèn | ཁྲ་རིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khra ring grong rdal |
Yanshipin Town* | Yànshípíng zhèn | ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | yan shis phin grong rdal | |
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Töma Township* | Duōmǎ xiāng | སྟོད་མ་ཤང་། | stod ma shang | |
Marchu Township* | 玛曲乡 | Mǎqǔ xiāng | དམར་ཆུ་ཤང་། | dmar chu shang |
Dardü Township | 滩堆乡 | Tānduī xiāng | དར་མདུད་ཤང་། | dar mdud shang |
Bangmer Township | 帮爱乡 | Bāng'ài xiāng | སྦང་མེར་ཤང་། | sbang mer shang |
Marrong Township* | 玛荣乡 | Mǎróng xiāng | དམར་རོང་ཤང་། | dmar rong shang |
Zhachu Township (Sibnak Chenchungo) |
扎曲乡 | Zhāqǔ xiāng | བཀྲ་ཆུ་ཤང་། | bra chu shang |
Sewu Township* | Sèwù xiāng | སེའུ་ཤང་། | se'u shang | |
Coma Township | 措玛乡 | Cuòmǎ xiāng | མཚོ་དམར་ཤང་། | mtsho dmar shang |
Gangnyi Township* | 岗尼乡 | Gǎngní xiāng | སྐང་གཉིས་ཤང་། | skang gnyis shang |
* Although being administered by Amdo County, Yanshipin, Gangnyi, Marchu, Sewu, Marrong and Töma are partially or entirely located within the borders of Qinghai province. |
Climate
editClimate data for Amdo, elevation 4,800 m (15,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −5.5 (22.1) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
1.3 (34.3) |
5.5 (41.9) |
9.4 (48.9) |
13.3 (55.9) |
14.4 (57.9) |
14.0 (57.2) |
11.6 (52.9) |
5.9 (42.6) |
0.1 (32.2) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
5.3 (41.5) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −13.6 (7.5) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
−6.5 (20.3) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
2.5 (36.5) |
6.7 (44.1) |
8.4 (47.1) |
8.1 (46.6) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
−12.3 (9.9) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.8 (−5.4) |
−18.1 (−0.6) |
−13.8 (7.2) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
1.6 (34.9) |
3.8 (38.8) |
3.5 (38.3) |
0.7 (33.3) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
−14.6 (5.7) |
−19.6 (−3.3) |
−8.0 (17.7) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.5 (0.14) |
2.3 (0.09) |
4.1 (0.16) |
10.5 (0.41) |
35.8 (1.41) |
91.8 (3.61) |
115.6 (4.55) |
108.8 (4.28) |
73.3 (2.89) |
14.4 (0.57) |
2.8 (0.11) |
1.7 (0.07) |
464.6 (18.29) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 6.6 | 13.5 | 19.1 | 21.3 | 20.1 | 17.4 | 7.6 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 121.7 |
Average snowy days | 5.8 | 6.2 | 8.1 | 10.1 | 17.0 | 9.2 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 9.2 | 10.6 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 88.3 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 40 | 38 | 44 | 54 | 64 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 53 | 45 | 40 | 52 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 231.6 | 215.1 | 242.0 | 246.7 | 258.9 | 231.3 | 218.3 | 214.7 | 218.4 | 256.8 | 248.3 | 244.5 | 2,826.6 |
Percent possible sunshine | 72 | 68 | 65 | 63 | 60 | 54 | 51 | 53 | 60 | 74 | 80 | 79 | 65 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] |
Transportation
editAmdo railway station offers a train operated once every 2 days to Lhasa, Lanzhou and Xining respectively. National highway G109 also passes downtown Amdo county.
Gallery
editReferences
edit- ^ "
那 曲 市 第 七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09. - ^
安 多 縣 (in Chinese). Hudong Encyclopedia. Retrieved 9 April 2012. - ^
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.