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Maqu County | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 玛曲县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 瑪曲縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Maqu County (Chinese :玛曲县;Tibetan :རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) is a county of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu province of China,bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the east and southeast,and Qinghai to the southwest,west and northwest. Its postal code is 747300,and in 1999 its population was 36,213 people. [2] The word "Maqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Yellow River. The area of Maqu County is 10,191 km2 with an average altitude of 3,700 meters. [3] Maqu County receives high rainfall and is located at the northern edge of the ZoigêMarshes on the Yellow River where conditions are optimal for alpine meadow vegetation. [3]
Maqu County is divided to 6 towns and 2 townships. [4]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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Towns | ||||||
Nyinma Town (Nima) | 尼玛镇 | NímǎZhèn | ཉིན་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nyin ma grong rdal | 623025100 | |
Maima Town (Manrima) | 曼日玛镇 | MànrìmǎZhèn | སྨད་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | smad ma grong rdal | 623025101 | |
Waibaincang Town (Bainaincang,Awancang) | 阿万仓镇 | Āwàncāng Zhèn | དབལ་བན་ཚང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbal ban tshang grong rdal | 623025102 | |
Qukama Town (Qihama) | 齐哈玛镇 | QíhāmǎZhèn | ཆུ་ཁ་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu kha ma grong rdal | 623025103 | |
Cêruma Town (Cairima) | 采日玛镇 | CǎirìmǎZhèn | མཚེ་རུ་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mtshe ru ma grong rdal | 623025104 | |
Ngüra Town (Oula) | 欧拉镇 | ŌulāZhèn | དངུལ་རྭ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dngul rwa grong rdal | 623025105 | |
Townships | ||||||
Ngüraxoima Township (Oulaxiuma) | 欧拉秀玛乡 | ŌulāxiùmǎXiāng | དངུལ་རྭ་ཞོལ་མ་ཤང་། | dngul rwa zhol ma shang | 623025201 | |
Murqêg Township (Murqê,Muxihe) | 木西合乡 | MùxīhéXiāng | མུར་བྱེག་ཤང་། | mur byeg shang | 623025203 | |
Climate data for Maqu,elevation 3,471 m (11,388 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) | 14.5 (58.1) | 14.8 (58.6) | 18.4 (65.1) | 23.6 (74.5) | 22.4 (72.3) | 23.4 (74.1) | 25.1 (77.2) | 24.7 (76.5) | 23.5 (74.3) | 19.8 (67.6) | 15.0 (59.0) | 13.6 (56.5) | 25.1 (77.2) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 0.5 (32.9) | 3.2 (37.8) | 6.4 (43.5) | 10.3 (50.5) | 13.0 (55.4) | 15.2 (59.4) | 17.6 (63.7) | 17.5 (63.5) | 14.3 (57.7) | 9.5 (49.1) | 5.3 (41.5) | 1.5 (34.7) | 9.5 (49.1) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.3 (17.1) | −5.3 (22.5) | −1.3 (29.7) | 3.0 (37.4) | 6.4 (43.5) | 9.7 (49.5) | 11.8 (53.2) | 11.3 (52.3) | 8.0 (46.4) | 2.7 (36.9) | −2.9 (26.8) | −7.2 (19.0) | 2.3 (36.2) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.4 (4.3) | −12.2 (10.0) | −7.2 (19.0) | −2.7 (27.1) | 1.1 (34.0) | 4.9 (40.8) | 6.8 (44.2) | 6.2 (43.2) | 3.4 (38.1) | −2.0 (28.4) | −8.8 (16.2) | −14.1 (6.6) | −3.3 (26.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | −28.0 (−18.4) | −27.3 (−17.1) | −20.9 (−5.6) | −13.6 (7.5) | −8.9 (16.0) | −3.4 (25.9) | −2.7 (27.1) | −4.0 (24.8) | −7.0 (19.4) | −12.9 (8.8) | −22.4 (−8.3) | −26.8 (−16.2) | −28.0 (−18.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5.8 (0.23) | 6.3 (0.25) | 15.2 (0.60) | 29.0 (1.14) | 71.8 (2.83) | 101.0 (3.98) | 126.0 (4.96) | 116.9 (4.60) | 88.1 (3.47) | 43.7 (1.72) | 6.7 (0.26) | 1.8 (0.07) | 612.3 (24.11) |
Average precipitation days (≥0.1 mm) | 4.9 | 5.3 | 9.6 | 12.3 | 17.8 | 19.8 | 19.3 | 17.9 | 18.5 | 14.5 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 146.6 |
Average snowy days | 6.5 | 7.4 | 12.9 | 12.6 | 7.7 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 10.3 | 6.0 | 4.2 | 71.2 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 45 | 46 | 52 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 70 | 55 | 46 | 61 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 229.4 | 207.9 | 228.5 | 230.1 | 219.3 | 186.9 | 217.6 | 219.9 | 173.7 | 195.8 | 229.1 | 234.1 | 2,572.3 |
Percent possible sunshine | 72 | 67 | 61 | 59 | 51 | 43 | 50 | 54 | 48 | 57 | 74 | 77 | 59 |
Source:China Meteorological Administration [5] [6] |
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