Gadê County
Gadê County 甘德县 • དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང Gande | |
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.png) Gadê County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Gadê Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 34°00′N 100°09′E / 34.000°N 100.150°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Golog |
| County seat | Koqu |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,046 km2 (2,720 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 41,046 |
| • Density | 5.8/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘德县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 甘德縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང | ||||||||||
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Gadê County (Tibetan: དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང; Chinese: 甘德县; pinyin: Gāndé Xiàn) is a county in the southeast of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu to the east. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Administrative divisions
[edit]Gadê is divided into one town and six townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Town | ||||||
| Koqu Town (Kequ) | 柯曲镇 | Kēqū Zhèn | ཁོ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kho chu grong rdal | 632623100 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Kongdoi Township (Shanggongma) | 上贡麻乡 | Shànggòngmá Xiāng | གོང་སྟོད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gong stod yul tsho | 632623200 | |
| Kongmang Township (Xiagongma) | 下贡麻乡 | Xiàgòngmá Xiāng | གོང་སྨང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gong stod yul tsho | 632623201 | |
| Kanglung Township (Ganglong) | 岗龙乡 | Gǎnglóng Xiāng | གངས་ལུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gangs lung yul tsho | 632623202 | |
| Kyinzhi Township (Qingzhen) | 青珍乡 | Qīngzhēn Xiāng | ཁྱི་འབྲི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | khyi 'bri yul tsho | 632623203 | |
| Gyangqai Township (Jiangqian) | 江千乡 | Jiāngqiān Xiāng | རྒྱང་ཆད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rgyang chad yul tsho | 632623204 | |
| Zangxoima Township (Xiazangke) | 下藏科乡 | Xiàzàngkē Xiāng | གཙང་ཞོལ་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gtsang zhol ma yul tsho | 632623205 | |
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for Gadê, elevation 4,050 m (13,290 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) | 8.7 (47.7) | 9.9 (49.8) | 14.3 (57.7) | 18.8 (65.8) | 19.2 (66.6) | 21.0 (69.8) | 24.2 (75.6) | 22.8 (73.0) | 22.0 (71.6) | 20.4 (68.7) | 10.4 (50.7) | 9.2 (48.6) | 24.2 (75.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −4.0 (24.8) | −1.4 (29.5) | 2.4 (36.3) | 7.0 (44.6) | 10.6 (51.1) | 13.4 (56.1) | 15.8 (60.4) | 15.8 (60.4) | 12.8 (55.0) | 6.8 (44.2) | 1.3 (34.3) | −2.6 (27.3) | 6.5 (43.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −14.4 (6.1) | −10.8 (12.6) | −6.2 (20.8) | −0.6 (30.9) | 3.4 (38.1) | 7.0 (44.6) | 9.1 (48.4) | 8.4 (47.1) | 5.2 (41.4) | −1.0 (30.2) | −8.2 (17.2) | −13.4 (7.9) | −1.8 (28.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −22.9 (−9.2) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −13.3 (8.1) | −7.0 (19.4) | −2.4 (27.7) | 1.8 (35.2) | 3.3 (37.9) | 2.4 (36.3) | −0.1 (31.8) | −6.3 (20.7) | −15.3 (4.5) | −21.8 (−7.2) | −8.4 (16.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −39.3 (−38.7) | −33.9 (−29.0) | −31.5 (−24.7) | −18.6 (−1.5) | −15.4 (4.3) | −7.7 (18.1) | −6.4 (20.5) | −7.8 (18.0) | −11.4 (11.5) | −24.3 (−11.7) | −31.7 (−25.1) | −38.4 (−37.1) | −39.3 (−38.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6.8 (0.27) | 9.1 (0.36) | 15.6 (0.61) | 25.6 (1.01) | 67.0 (2.64) | 102.9 (4.05) | 102.7 (4.04) | 91.6 (3.61) | 75.9 (2.99) | 33.4 (1.31) | 6.7 (0.26) | 3.6 (0.14) | 540.9 (21.29) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 7.7 | 8.9 | 12.2 | 13.3 | 19.0 | 21.8 | 20.0 | 18.7 | 19.1 | 15.3 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 165.8 |
| Average snowy days | 10.2 | 12.0 | 15.6 | 16.2 | 17.4 | 6.1 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 7.4 | 17.3 | 8.2 | 6.4 | 119.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 57 | 55 | 57 | 59 | 66 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 71 | 61 | 55 | 65 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 197.7 | 176.6 | 208.7 | 223.3 | 207.1 | 176.2 | 201.4 | 205.8 | 173.1 | 190.9 | 214.8 | 214.0 | 2,389.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 62 | 57 | 56 | 57 | 48 | 41 | 46 | 50 | 47 | 55 | 70 | 70 | 55 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "果洛州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Hainan Prefecture. 2021-07-09.[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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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