Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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Gannan Prefecture
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Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
![]() Labrang Monastery, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
![]() Location of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Gansu | |
Country | China |
Province | Gansu |
Prefecture Seat | Hezuo |
Government | |
• Type | Autonomous prefecture |
• CCP Secretary | Yu Chenghui |
• Congress Chairman | Tashi Cao |
• Governor | Zhao Lingyun |
• CPPCC Chairman | Rinchen Thondup |
Area | |
• Total | 40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi) |
Population (2010[citation needed]) | |
• Total | 689,132 |
• Density | 17/km2 (44/sq mi) |
• Major Ethnic Groups | Tibetan−51.44% Han−41.75% Hui−6.43% |
GDP[1] | |
• Total | CN¥ 12.7 billion US$ 2.0 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 17,990 US$ 2,888 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
ISO 3166 code | CN-GS-30 |
Website | www |
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Tibetan | ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། | ||||||||||
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Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese:
Population[edit]
According to the 2010 census, Gannan has 689,132 inhabitants[2] (population density: 17.14 inhabitants per km2).
Ethnic groups in Gannan, 2000 census[edit]
Nationality | Population | Percentage |
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Tibetan | 329,278 | 51.44% |
Han | 267,260 | 41.75% |
Hui | 41,163 | 6.43% |
Tu | 939 | 0.15% |
Dongxiang | 258 | 0.04% |
Manchu | 257 | 0.04% |
Salar | 222 | 0.03% |
Mongols | 215 | 0.03% |
Others | 514 | 0.09% |
Transport[edit]
In the prefecture is high-way G213. In 2013, the Gannan Xiahe Airport was opened.
Subdivisions[edit]
1 county level city, 7 counties.
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Note: Lianhuashan National Nature Reserve is part of Lintan County. | |||||||
Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie Tibetan Pinyin |
Population (2010 Census) |
Area (km2) | Density (/km2) |
Hezuo City (Zoi City) |
Hézuò Shì | གཙོས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | gtsos grong khyer Zoi Chongkyir |
90,290 | 2,670 | 33.81 | |
Lintan County | 临潭县 | Líntán Xiàn | ལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་། | lin than rdzong Lintain Zong |
137,001 | 1,557 | 87.99 |
Jonê County (Zhuoni County) |
Zhuóní Xiàn | ཅོ་ནེ་རྫོང་། | co ne rdzong Jonê Zong |
100,522 | 5,694 | 17.65 | |
Zhouqu County (Zhugqu County) |
Zhōuqū Xiàn | འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | 'brug chu rdzong Zhugqu Zong |
132,108 | 3,010 | 43.88 | |
Têwo County (Diebu County) |
迭部县 | Diébù Xiàn | ཐེ་བོ་རྫོང་། | the bo rdzong Têwo Zong |
52,166 | 5,108 | 10.21 |
Maqu County | 玛曲县 | Mǎqū Xiàn | རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | rma chu rdzong Maqu Zong |
54,745 | 10,190 | 6.72 |
Luqu County | Lùqū Xiàn | ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | klu chu rdzong Gluqu Zong |
35,630 | 5,298 | 6.72 | |
Xiahe County (Sangqu County) |
Xiàhé Xiàn | བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | bsang chu rdzong Sangqu Zong |
86,670 | 6,674 | 12.98 |
Climate[edit]
Gannan, as illustrated by this chart for Xiahe, has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) that grades into an alpine climate (ETH) at the highest elevations. The climate is characterised by mild, rainy summers and frigid, but dry and sunny, winters.
Climate data for Xiahe County | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5 (41) |
7 (45) |
10 (50) |
13 (55) |
17 (63) |
21 (70) |
19 (66) |
17 (63) |
15 (59) |
9 (48) |
8 (46) |
5 (41) |
12 (54) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −18 (0) |
−16 (3) |
−12 (10) |
−8 (18) |
−6 (21) |
−2 (28) |
3 (37) |
1 (34) |
−3 (27) |
−7 (19) |
−12 (10) |
−16 (3) |
−8 (18) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6 (0.2) |
15 (0.6) |
14 (0.6) |
62 (2.4) |
101 (4.0) |
105 (4.1) |
174 (6.9) |
120 (4.7) |
139 (5.5) |
44 (1.7) |
9 (0.4) |
3 (0.1) |
792 (31.2) |
Source: [3] |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^
甘 肃省统计局 、国家 统计局 甘 肃调查总队 (November 2016). 《甘 肃发展 年 鉴-2016》.中国 统计出版 社 . ISBN 978-7-5037-7894-0.[permanent dead link] - ^ Census 2012 http://www.geohive.com/cntry/cn-62.aspx Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
Further reading[edit]
- A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 2. The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
- Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3
External links[edit]
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