Nyagqu County (Tibetan: ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: nyag chu rdzong, ZYPY: Nyagqu Zong, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka) or Yajiang County (Chinese: 雅江县; pinyin: Yǎjiāng Xiàn), named after Nyagchukha in Tibetan, is a county of the traditional Kham Region of eastern Tibet. It is currently under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the west of Sichuan Province, China.
Nyagqu County
雅江县 · ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། Yajiang, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka | |
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 Location of Yajiang County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Yajiang Location of the seat in Sichuan  Yajiang Yajiang (China) | |
| Coordinates: 30°01′55″N 101°00′50″E / 30.032°N 101.014°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Quka Town (Hekou) |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,558 km2 (2,918 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 51,162 |
| • Density | 6.8/km2 (18/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 雅江县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 雅江縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Administrative divisions
editYajiang County is divided into 6 towns and 10 township.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Quka Town (Hekou) |
河口镇 | Hékǒu Zhèn | ཆུ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu kha grong rdal | 513325100 | |
| Garra Town (Gala) |
呷拉镇 | Gālā Zhèn | མགར་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mgar ra grong rdal | 513325101 | |
| Golog Town (Xi'eluo) |
西俄洛镇 | Xī'éluò Zhèn | མགོ་ལོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mgo log grong rdal | 513325102 | |
| Horlung Town (Honglong) |
红龙镇 | Hónglóng Zhèn | ཧོར་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hor lung grong rdal | 513325103 | |
| Malhaco Town (Marlamco, Malangcuo) |
麻郎措镇 | Málángcuò Zhèn | མ་ལྷ་མཚོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ma lha mtsho grong rdal | 513325104 | |
| Bosêrxoi Town (Bosihe) |
波斯河镇 | Bōsīhé Zhèn | སྤོ་སེར་ཤོད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | spo ser shod grong rdal | 513325105 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Karringbo Township (Bajiaolou) |
八角楼乡 | Bājiǎolóu Xiāng | མཁར་རིང་པོ་ཤང་། | mkhar ring po shang | 513325201 | |
| Pugbarong Township (Pubarong) |
普巴绒乡 | Pǔbāróng Xiāng | ཕུགས་པ་རོང་ཤང་། | phugs pa rong shang | 513325202 | |
| Chongsum Township (Zhusang) |
祝桑乡 | Zhùsāng Xiāng | གྲོང་གསུམ་ཤང་། | grong gsum shang | 513325203 | |
| Mignor Township (Milong) |
米龙乡 | Mǐlóng Xiāng | མིག་ནོར་ཤང་། | mig nor shang | 513325204 | |
| Banyugrong Township (Bayirong) |
八衣绒乡 | Bāyīróng Xiāng | སྤ་སྨྱུག་རོང་ཤང་། | spa smyug rong shang | 513325205 | |
| Nyayüxab Township (Yayihe) |
牙衣河乡 | Yáyīhé Xiāng | ཉ་ཡུལ་ཞབས་ཤང་། | nya yul zhabs shang | 513325208 | |
| Dêca Township (Decha) |
德差乡 | Déchā Xiāng | སྡེ་ཚྭ་ཤང་། | sde tshwa shang | 513325211 | |
| Kogla Township (Kela) |
柯拉乡 | Kēlā Xiāng | ཁོག་ལ་ཤང་། | khog la shang | 513325213 | |
| Chuka Township (Waduo) |
瓦多乡 | Wǎduō Xiāng | གྲུ་ཁ་ཤང་། | gru kha shang | 513325214 | |
| Misang Township (Murong) |
木绒乡 | Mùróng Xiāng | མི་བཟང་ཤང་། | mi bzang shang | 513325215 | |
Climate
edit| Climate data for Yajiang, elevation 2,601 m (8,533 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) | 26.6 (79.9) |
28.1 (82.6) |
33.5 (92.3) |
32.6 (90.7) |
35.8 (96.4) |
35.7 (96.3) |
35.4 (95.7) |
35.4 (95.7) |
33.3 (91.9) |
29.6 (85.3) |
26.1 (79.0) |
23.3 (73.9) |
35.8 (96.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 13.8 (56.8) |
16.9 (62.4) |
19.3 (66.7) |
22.0 (71.6) |
25.3 (77.5) |
26.5 (79.7) |
26.6 (79.9) |
26.7 (80.1) |
24.4 (75.9) |
21.1 (70.0) |
16.6 (61.9) |
13.1 (55.6) |
21.0 (69.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.3 (36.1) |
5.9 (42.6) |
9.3 (48.7) |
12.4 (54.3) |
15.7 (60.3) |
17.4 (63.3) |
17.8 (64.0) |
17.6 (63.7) |
15.3 (59.5) |
11.2 (52.2) |
5.7 (42.3) |
1.4 (34.5) |
11.0 (51.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.3 (22.5) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
1.5 (34.7) |
5.1 (41.2) |
8.7 (47.7) |
12.0 (53.6) |
13.0 (55.4) |
12.8 (55.0) |
10.7 (51.3) |
5.5 (41.9) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
4.6 (40.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −13.4 (7.9) |
−9.8 (14.4) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.1 (41.2) |
6.1 (43.0) |
5.3 (41.5) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−13.9 (7.0) |
−13.9 (7.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.6 (0.02) |
2.3 (0.09) |
13.3 (0.52) |
38.8 (1.53) |
74.4 (2.93) |
165.0 (6.50) |
173.1 (6.81) |
146.0 (5.75) |
135.1 (5.32) |
39.2 (1.54) |
8.0 (0.31) |
1.5 (0.06) |
797.3 (31.38) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.8 | 1.6 | 5.6 | 11.2 | 14.6 | 22.1 | 21.5 | 19.6 | 18.7 | 10.0 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 130 |
| Average snowy days | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 6.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 35 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 54 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 75 | 68 | 55 | 45 | 56 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 117.6 | 156.8 | 176.5 | 172.2 | 188.8 | 161.9 | 156.5 | 167.0 | 154.0 | 171.0 | 143.0 | 86.9 | 1,852.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 36 | 50 | 47 | 44 | 45 | 39 | 37 | 41 | 42 | 49 | 45 | 28 | 42 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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