Nedong, Shannan
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Nêdong
乃东 | |
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![]() Location of Nêdong (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
Coordinates: 29°13′12″N 91°46′48″E / 29.22000°N 91.78000°E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Shannan (Lhoka) |
District seat | Tsetang Subdistrict |
Area | |
• Total | 2,184.98 km2 (843.63 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 81,608 |
• Density | 37/km2 (97/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Nedong, Shannan | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 乃东 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 乃東 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས། | ||||||
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Nêdong District (Tibetan: སྣེ་གདོང་ཆུས།; Chinese: 乃东
Tradruk Temple, an important early Buddhist monastery dating to the reign of Songtsen Gampo, is located in the Yarlung Valley in Nêdong as is Yungbulakang Palace.
Administrative divisions
[edit]Nêdong District contains 1 subdistrict, 1 town and 5 townships.
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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Subdistrict | ||||
Tsetang Subdistrict | 泽当 |
Zédāng Jiēdào | རྩེད་ཐང་ཁྲོམ་ལམ་། | rtsed thang khrom lam |
Town | ||||
Thradrug Town | Chāngzhū zhèn | ཁྲ་འབྲུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khra 'brug grong rdal | |
Townships | ||||
Yadoi Township | 亚堆乡 | Yàduī xiāng | ཡ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | ya stod shang |
Sodruk Township | Suǒzhū xiāng | སོ་དྲུག་ཤང་། | so drug shang | |
Dopozhang Township | Duōpōzhāng xiāng | རྡོ་ཕོ་བྲང་ཤང་། | sdo pho brang shang | |
Kerpa Township | 结巴乡 | Jiébā xiāng | སྐར་པ་ཤང་། | skar pa shang |
Pozhang Township | 颇章乡 | Pōzhāng xiāng | པོ་བྲང་ཤང་། | pho brang shang |
Climate
[edit]Climate data for Shannan (Nedong District, 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) | 20.5 (68.9) |
20.6 (69.1) |
25.0 (77.0) |
26.5 (79.7) |
28.7 (83.7) |
30.0 (86.0) |
30.3 (86.5) |
28.5 (83.3) |
27.1 (80.8) |
24.5 (76.1) |
22.5 (72.5) |
19.3 (66.7) |
30.3 (86.5) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.3 (48.7) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.2 (57.6) |
17.2 (63.0) |
20.7 (69.3) |
23.9 (75.0) |
23.6 (74.5) |
22.7 (72.9) |
21.5 (70.7) |
18.4 (65.1) |
13.7 (56.7) |
10.3 (50.5) |
17.2 (63.0) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.8 (33.4) |
3.1 (37.6) |
6.7 (44.1) |
9.5 (49.1) |
13.2 (55.8) |
16.5 (61.7) |
16.5 (61.7) |
15.9 (60.6) |
14.5 (58.1) |
10.4 (50.7) |
4.8 (40.6) |
1.0 (33.8) |
9.4 (48.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.7 (19.9) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
2.9 (37.2) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.6 (51.1) |
11.6 (52.9) |
11.2 (52.2) |
9.4 (48.9) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
3.1 (37.5) |
Record low °C (°F) | −18.2 (−0.8) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
0.7 (33.3) |
5.8 (42.4) |
4.5 (40.1) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−11.2 (11.8) |
−14.8 (5.4) |
−18.2 (−0.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.6 (0.02) |
1.5 (0.06) |
4.9 (0.19) |
14.4 (0.57) |
30.0 (1.18) |
52.4 (2.06) |
122.4 (4.82) |
113 (4.4) |
53.7 (2.11) |
8.5 (0.33) |
1.2 (0.05) |
0.5 (0.02) |
403.1 (15.81) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.5 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 6.4 | 9.3 | 13.5 | 19.9 | 18.6 | 12.4 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 89.2 |
Average snowy days | 1.4 | 2.6 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 19.5 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 28 | 27 | 32 | 40 | 44 | 51 | 61 | 62 | 58 | 44 | 33 | 31 | 43 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 230.2 | 220.5 | 250.8 | 255.9 | 269.9 | 248.3 | 213.8 | 223.0 | 231.7 | 264.2 | 244.3 | 237.8 | 2,890.4 |
Percent possible sunshine | 71 | 69 | 67 | 66 | 64 | 59 | 50 | 55 | 63 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 66 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] |
Gallery
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "
山南 市 第 七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24. - ^
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.