Tongde County
Tongde County 同德县 · འབལ་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Tongde County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Tongde Location in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 35°00′N 100°30′E / 35.000°N 100.500°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Hainan |
| County seat | Gabasumdo |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,758 km2 (1,837 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
| • Total | 60,268 |
| • Density | 13/km2 (33/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 同德县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 同德縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ཐུན་ཏེ་རྫོང་། or འབལ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Tongde County (Chinese: 同德县, Tibetan: འབལ་རྫོང་།) is a county of Qinghai province, China. It is under the administration of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Administrative divisions
[edit]Tongde County is made up of 2 towns and 3 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Gabasumdo Town (Gabasongduo) | 尕巴松多镇 | Gǎbāsōngduō Zhèn | རྐ་འབའ་སུམ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rka ʼbaʼ sum mdo grong rdal | 632522100 | |
| Tanggo Town (Tanggu) | 唐谷镇 | Tánggǔ Zhèn | ཐང་མགོ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | thang mgo grong brdal | 632522101 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Balung Township (Bagou) | 巴沟乡 | Bāgōu Xiāng | འབའ་ལུང་ཞང་། | ʼbaʼ lung zhang | 632522200 | |
| Xoima Township (Xiuma) | 秀麻乡 | Xiùmá Xiāng | ཞོལ་མ་ཞང་། | zhol ma zhang | 632522201 | |
| Maqang Township (Hebei) | 河北乡 | Héběi Xiāng | རྨ་བྱང་ཞང་། | rma byang zhang | 632522202 | |
- Other: Provincial Grass Seed Breeding Farm (省牧草良种繁殖场)
Geography and climate
[edit]Tongde County has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc), with long, very cold and dry winters, and short, rainy, mild summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from mid/late September to mid May; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation (at an average 16.9 °C or 30.4 °F), only January has an average high that is below freezing. Despite frequent rain during summer, when a majority of days sees rain, no month has less than 50% of possible sunshine; with monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 51% in June to 81% in November, the county seat receives 2,806 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −13.0 °C (8.6 °F) in January to 11.7 °C (53.1 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 0.57 °C (33.0 °F). Over 70% of the annual precipitation of 426 mm (16.8 in) is delivered from June to September.
| Climate data for Tongde County, elevation 3,148 m (10,328 ft), (2001–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 12.7 (54.9) | 13.1 (55.6) | 18.9 (66.0) | 25.5 (77.9) | 25.4 (77.7) | 26.6 (79.9) | 29.8 (85.6) | 28.0 (82.4) | 26.4 (79.5) | 21.7 (71.1) | 14.5 (58.1) | 10.2 (50.4) | 29.8 (85.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.9 (35.4) | 5.2 (41.4) | 9.3 (48.7) | 13.8 (56.8) | 16.2 (61.2) | 18.6 (65.5) | 21.2 (70.2) | 21.4 (70.5) | 17.6 (63.7) | 12.5 (54.5) | 7.4 (45.3) | 2.9 (37.2) | 12.3 (54.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.4 (16.9) | −4.6 (23.7) | 0.1 (32.2) | 5.2 (41.4) | 8.7 (47.7) | 12.0 (53.6) | 14.2 (57.6) | 13.7 (56.7) | 9.9 (49.8) | 3.9 (39.0) | −2.7 (27.1) | −7.7 (18.1) | 3.7 (38.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −16.1 (3.0) | −12.5 (9.5) | −7.3 (18.9) | −2.0 (28.4) | 2.4 (36.3) | 6.5 (43.7) | 8.6 (47.5) | 8.0 (46.4) | 4.8 (40.6) | −2.0 (28.4) | −9.6 (14.7) | −15.3 (4.5) | −2.9 (26.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −37.2 (−35.0) | −30.7 (−23.3) | −27.0 (−16.6) | −18.3 (−0.9) | −10.3 (13.5) | −5.0 (23.0) | −2.5 (27.5) | −6.8 (19.8) | −9.6 (14.7) | −18.6 (−1.5) | −28.0 (−18.4) | −30.6 (−23.1) | −37.2 (−35.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.2 (0.09) | 4.0 (0.16) | 8.2 (0.32) | 26.7 (1.05) | 68.6 (2.70) | 81.2 (3.20) | 96.1 (3.78) | 95.7 (3.77) | 74.8 (2.94) | 23.1 (0.91) | 4.3 (0.17) | 1.2 (0.05) | 486.1 (19.14) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.5 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 7.5 | 15.4 | 18.2 | 18.1 | 16.2 | 17.0 | 8.8 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 115 |
| Average snowy days | 2.8 | 3.9 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 27.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 34 | 34 | 35 | 44 | 55 | 63 | 66 | 66 | 67 | 58 | 45 | 35 | 50 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 220.8 | 202.2 | 239.5 | 240.2 | 225.7 | 198.4 | 213.5 | 218.1 | 191.5 | 218.9 | 225.4 | 227.6 | 2,621.8 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 70 | 65 | 64 | 61 | 52 | 46 | 49 | 53 | 52 | 64 | 74 | 75 | 60 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4][5] | |||||||||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Tóngdé Xiàn (County, China) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location".
- ^ "海南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. 2021-06-25.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1971－2000年）. China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
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