Daocheng County
Daocheng County
Dapba, Dabba, Daoba | |
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Coordinates (Daocheng government): 29°02′16″N 100°17′51″E / 29.0379°N 100.2974°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Sichuan |
Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
County seat | Jingzhoi (Jinzhu) |
Area | |
• Total | 7,323 km2 (2,827 sq mi) |
Elevation | 3,753 m (12,313 ft) |
Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 32,916 |
• Density | 4.5/km2 (12/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
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Tibetan | འདབ་པ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Daocheng County or Dapba in Tibetan (Tibetan: འདབ་པ་རྫོང་།; Chinese:
Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest airport, is located in Daocheng County.
History
[edit]The explorer Joseph Rock departed from Lijiang in 1928 and visited Daocheng.[3]
After the fall of the Qing dynasty, Xiangcheng and Daocheng fell into chaos. Daocheng was controlled by local chiefs centered in Daoba and the Gangkarling (贡噶岭; Gònggálǐng) region from 1930s to 1950s.[4]
Administrative Divisions
[edit]Daocheng County is divided into 5 towns and 8 townships.[1][5][6]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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Towns | ||||||
Jingzhoi Town (Jinzhu) |
Jīnzhū Zhèn | བཅིངས་འགྲོལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bcings 'grol grong rdal | 513337100 | ||
Shambala Town (Xambala, Xianggelila) |
Xiānggélǐlā Zhèn | ཤམ་བྷ་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sham bha la grong rdal | 513337101 | ||
Sumdü Town (Sangdui) |
Sāngduī Zhèn | གསུམ་འདུས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | gsum 'dus grong rdal | 513337102 | ||
Qugar Town (Jiga) |
Jígā Zhèn | ཆུ་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu dkar grong rdal | 513337103 | ||
Gartang Town (Gatong) |
噶通镇 | Gátōng Zhèn | སྐར་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | skar thang grong rdal | 513337104 | |
Townships | ||||||
Sammo Township (Shengmu) |
Shěngmǔ Xiāng | བསམ་མོ་ཤང་། | bsam mo shang | 513337201 | ||
Jangrong Township (Julong) |
Jùlóng Xiāng | འཇང་རོང་ཤང་། | 'jang rong shang | 513337204 | ||
Dêmo Township (Dengpo) |
邓坡乡 | Dèngpō Xiāng | བདེ་མོ་ཤང་། | bde mo shang | 513337205 | |
Mangra Township (Mula) |
Mùlā Xiāng | མང་ར་ཤང་། | mang ra shang | 513337206 | ||
Qêrog Township (Chitu) |
Chìtǔ Xiāng | ཆེ་རོགས་ཤང་། | che rogs shang | 513337207 | ||
Bucang Township (Mengzi) |
Méngzì Xiāng | འབུ་ཚང་ཤང་། | 'bu tshang shang | 513337209 | ||
Kaqa Township (Gaqag, Geka) |
Gèkǎ Xiāng | ག་ཆ་ཤང་། | ga cha shang | 513337210 | ||
Goyagtang Township (Goyatang, Eyatong) |
Éyátóng Xiāng | འགོ་ཡག་ཐང་ཤང་། | 'go yag thang shang | 513337212 |
Climate
[edit]Daocheng has a Monsoon-influenced warm-summer humid continental climate (Dwb) according to the Köppen Climate classification, with humid and rainy and warm summers, and cold and dry winters due to the high pressure that forms over the Tibetan Plateau during those months. Snowfall is most common during spring and autumn, as there is little precipitation during winter.
Climate data for Daocheng, elevation 3,728 m (12,231 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) | 18.7 (65.7) |
18.7 (65.7) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.7 (74.7) |
25.2 (77.4) |
27.0 (80.6) |
27.9 (82.2) |
24.9 (76.8) |
23.8 (74.8) |
21.5 (70.7) |
19.0 (66.2) |
17.2 (63.0) |
27.9 (82.2) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) |
7.8 (46.0) |
10.3 (50.5) |
13.6 (56.5) |
17.4 (63.3) |
19.7 (67.5) |
18.6 (65.5) |
18.2 (64.8) |
17.5 (63.5) |
14.6 (58.3) |
10.6 (51.1) |
7.8 (46.0) |
13.5 (56.4) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.1 (24.6) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
1.5 (34.7) |
5.4 (41.7) |
9.8 (49.6) |
12.7 (54.9) |
12.4 (54.3) |
11.9 (53.4) |
10.7 (51.3) |
6.3 (43.3) |
0.7 (33.3) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
5.2 (41.3) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −12.5 (9.5) |
−10.0 (14.0) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
2.8 (37.0) |
7.2 (45.0) |
8.3 (46.9) |
7.9 (46.2) |
6.2 (43.2) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
Record low °C (°F) | −26.5 (−15.7) |
−23.6 (−10.5) |
−18.4 (−1.1) |
−10.4 (13.3) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
0.1 (32.2) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−21.0 (−5.8) |
−27.6 (−17.7) |
−27.6 (−17.7) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.3 (0.05) |
2.0 (0.08) |
7.2 (0.28) |
14.0 (0.55) |
39.5 (1.56) |
116.2 (4.57) |
193.8 (7.63) |
162.7 (6.41) |
97.7 (3.85) |
20.2 (0.80) |
4.6 (0.18) |
0.9 (0.04) |
660.1 (26) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.7 | 1.4 | 5.0 | 7.3 | 10.2 | 18.2 | 24.8 | 23.8 | 17.8 | 6.4 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 119.9 |
Average snowy days | 4.0 | 5.2 | 10.1 | 9.9 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 41.7 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 37 | 38 | 43 | 47 | 51 | 63 | 74 | 75 | 71 | 60 | 48 | 39 | 54 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 261.2 | 244.8 | 247.8 | 230.1 | 219.8 | 171.6 | 130.7 | 136.4 | 167.7 | 227.7 | 244.8 | 262.0 | 2,544.6 |
Percent possible sunshine | 80 | 77 | 66 | 59 | 52 | 41 | 31 | 34 | 46 | 65 | 77 | 82 | 59 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8] |
References
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稻城 县历史 沿革 [Daocheng County Historical Development] (in Simplified Chinese). XZQH.org. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2018.1996
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甘 孜 州 第 七次全国人口普查公报(第 二 号 )" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04. - ^ "
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