Gadê County
Gadê County
甘德县 • དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང Gande | |
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 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 |
| Gadê County | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘德县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 甘德縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| 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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