Gyantse County
County in Tibet, China
Gyangzê County 28°53′45″N 89°37′33″E / 28.89583°N 89.62583°E / 28.89583; 89.62583 | |
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| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Gyantse |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,849.23 km2 (1,486.20 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 68,650 |
| • Density | 18/km2 (46/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 江孜县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 江孜縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Gyantse County officially Gyangzê County (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 江孜县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its main settlement is Gyantse Town known for its monasteries.[2]
Administration divisions
Gyantse County is divided into 1 town and 18 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Town | ||||||
| Gyangzê Town (Gyantse) | 江孜镇 | Jiāngzī zhèn | རྒྱལ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rgyal rtse grong rdal | ||
| Townships | ||||||
| Naröl Township | 纳如乡 | Nàrú xiāng | ན་རོལ་ཤང་། | na rol shang | ||
| Karmai Township | 卡麦乡 | Kǎmài xiāng | མཁར་སྨད་ཤང་། | mkhar smad shang | ||
| Kardoi Township | 卡堆乡 | Kǎduī xiāng | མཁར་སྟོད་ཤང་། | mkhar stod shang | ||
| Tsangkha Township | 藏改乡 | Zànggǎi xiāng | གཙང་ཁ་ཤང་། | gtsang kha shang | ||
| Rinang Township | 日朗乡 | Rìlǎng xiāng | རི་ནང་ཤང་། | ri nang shang | ||
| Dagzê Township | 达孜乡 | Dázī xiāng | སྟག་རྩེ་ཤང་། | stag rtse shang | ||
| Rasog Township | 热索乡 | Rèsuǒ xiāng | ར་སོག་ཤང་། | ra sog shang | ||
| Drongtsé Township | 重孜乡 | Chóngzī xiāng | འབྲོང་རྩེ་ཤང་། | 'brong rtse shang | ||
| Lungmar Township | 龙马乡 | Lóngmǎ xiāng | ལུང་དམར་ཤང་། | lung dmar shang | ||
| Jaggyê Township | 加克西乡 | Jiākèxī xiāng | ལྕགས་སྒྱེ་ཤང་། | lcangs skye shang | ||
| Tsechen Township | 紫金乡 | Zǐjīn xiāng | རྩེ་ཆེན་ཤང་། | rtse chen shang | ||
| Jangra Township | 江热乡 | Jiāngrè xiāng | ལྕང་ར་ཤང་། | lcang ra shang | ||
| Nyangdoi Township | 年堆乡 | Niánduī xiāng | མྱང་སྟོད་ཤང་། | myang stod shang | ||
| Kangco Township | 康卓乡 | Kāngzhuó xiāng | གངས་མཚོ་ཤང་། | gangs mtsho shang | ||
| Gyinkar Township | 金嘎乡 | Jīngā xiāng | དཀྱིལ་མཁར་ཤང་། | dkyil mkhar shang | ||
| Rizhing Township | 日星乡 | Rìxīng xiāng | རི་ཞིང་ཤང་། | ri zhing shang | ||
| Charing Township | 车仁乡 | Chērén xiāng | ཁྲ་རིང་ཤང་། | khra ring shang | ||
| Ralung Township | 热龙乡 | Rèlóng xiāng | ར་ལུང་ཤང་། | ra lung shang | ||
Climate
| Climate data for Gyangzê (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.0 (62.6) | 17.3 (63.1) | 22.1 (71.8) | 23.2 (73.8) | 25.9 (78.6) | 28.7 (83.7) | 28.2 (82.8) | 25.4 (77.7) | 24.6 (76.3) | 21.9 (71.4) | 18.9 (66.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 28.7 (83.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.0 (42.8) | 7.2 (45.0) | 10.5 (50.9) | 13.8 (56.8) | 17.7 (63.9) | 21.0 (69.8) | 20.4 (68.7) | 19.5 (67.1) | 18.5 (65.3) | 15.0 (59.0) | 10.0 (50.0) | 6.6 (43.9) | 13.9 (56.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.9 (25.0) | −1.5 (29.3) | 2.4 (36.3) | 5.5 (41.9) | 9.3 (48.7) | 12.9 (55.2) | 12.7 (54.9) | 11.8 (53.2) | 10.3 (50.5) | 6.4 (43.5) | 0.6 (33.1) | −3.4 (25.9) | 5.3 (41.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −13.5 (7.7) | −10.7 (12.7) | −6.1 (21.0) | −2.5 (27.5) | 1.5 (34.7) | 5.6 (42.1) | 6.8 (44.2) | 6.3 (43.3) | 3.8 (38.8) | −1.5 (29.3) | −7.5 (18.5) | −11.8 (10.8) | −2.5 (27.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −23.9 (−11.0) | −20.4 (−4.7) | −16.2 (2.8) | −12.6 (9.3) | −7.6 (18.3) | −2.3 (27.9) | 0.2 (32.4) | −1.0 (30.2) | −3.6 (25.5) | −11.6 (11.1) | −14.0 (6.8) | −21.4 (−6.5) | −23.9 (−11.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.4 (0.02) | 0.4 (0.02) | 1.1 (0.04) | 5.6 (0.22) | 15.1 (0.59) | 34.5 (1.36) | 88.2 (3.47) | 90.3 (3.56) | 36.7 (1.44) | 3.7 (0.15) | 0.5 (0.02) | 0.4 (0.02) | 276.9 (10.91) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 30 | 29 | 33 | 39 | 46 | 55 | 68 | 72 | 64 | 46 | 40 | 39 | 47 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
- ^ Croddy, E. (2022). China’s Provinces and Populations: A Chronological and Geographical Survey. Springer International Publishing. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
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