Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Huangnan Prefecture
黃南州 · རྨ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
Autonomous prefectures
黄南藏族自治州 · རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་

Location of Huangnan Prefecture in Qinghai
Country China
Province Qinghai
Prefecture seat Tongren County
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)

Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 黄南藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 黃南藏族自治州; pinyin: Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: rma lho bod rigs rang skyong khul ) is an autonomous prefecture of eastern Qinghai, China, bordering Gansu to the east. The prefecture has area of 17,921 km2 (6,919 sq mi) and its seat is in Tongren County.

Demographics

According to the 2000 census, Huangnan has 214,642 inhabitants with a population density of 11.98 inhabitants/km² (31.03 inhabitants/sq. mi.).

Ethnic groups in Huangnan, 2000 census

Nationality Population Percentage
Tibetan 142,360 66.32%
Mongol 29,071 13.54%
Hui 16,411 7.65%
Han 16,194 7.54%
Tu/Monguor 8,445 3.93%
Salar 1,530 0.71%
Others 631 0.31%

Climate

Climate data for Tongren County(1981-2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 15.1
(59.2)		 21.6
(70.9)		 27.0
(80.6)		 32.7
(90.9)		 30.9
(87.6)		 31.3
(88.3)		 35.0
(95)		 34.2
(93.6)		 32.5
(90.5)		 23.4
(74.1)		 19.8
(67.6)		 13.9
(57)		 35
(95)
Average high °C (°F) 1.3
(34.3)		 4.8
(40.6)		 10.1
(50.2)		 15.7
(60.3)		 18.9
(66)		 21.3
(70.3)		 23.5
(74.3)		 23.4
(74.1)		 18.7
(65.7)		 13.6
(56.5)		 8.1
(46.6)		 2.7
(36.9)		 13.51
(56.32)
Daily mean °C (°F) −6.6
(20.1)		 −3.2
(26.2)		 2.0
(35.6)		 7.8
(46)		 11.9
(53.4)		 14.7
(58.5)		 16.7
(62.1)		 16.1
(61)		 12.0
(53.6)		 6.3
(43.3)		 0.1
(32.2)		 −5.1
(22.8)		 6.06
(42.9)
Average low °C (°F) −12.2
(10)		 −9.2
(15.4)		 −3.9
(25)		 1.4
(34.5)		 5.8
(42.4)		 9.1
(48.4)		 11.2
(52.2)		 10.5
(50.9)		 7.4
(45.3)		 1.4
(34.5)		 −5.4
(22.3)		 −10.6
(12.9)		 0.46
(32.82)
Record low °C (°F) −22.6
(−8.7)		 −19.5
(−3.1)		 −15
(5)		 −9.3
(15.3)		 −3.7
(25.3)		 1.2
(34.2)		 4.3
(39.7)		 2.3
(36.1)		 −0.9
(30.4)		 −10.5
(13.1)		 −16.4
(2.5)		 −21.5
(−6.7)		 −22.6
(−8.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.5
(0.098)		 3.9
(0.154)		 11.0
(0.433)		 22.6
(0.89)		 58.0
(2.283)		 64.5
(2.539)		 80.4
(3.165)		 70.8
(2.787)		 65.1
(2.563)		 25.9
(1.02)		 3.1
(0.122)		 0.8
(0.031)		 408.6
(16.085)
Source: China Meteorological Administration,[1]

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 3 counties and 1 autonomous county:

Map # Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Tibetan Pinyin		 Population
(2010 Census)		 Area (km²) Density
(/km²)
1 Tongren County 同仁县 Tóngrén Xiàn Official: ཐུང་རིན་རྫོང་།
(རེབ་གོང་རྫོང་། or རེ་སྐོང་རྫོང་།)		 thung rin rdzong
Tungrin Zong		 92,601 3,465 26.72
2 Jainca County 尖扎县 Jiānzhā Xiàn གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། gcan tsha rdzong
Jainca Zong		 55,325 1,712 32.31
3 Zêkog County 泽库县 Zékù Xiàn རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། rtse khog rdzong
Zêkog Zong		 69,416 6,494 10.68
4 Henan Mongol Autonomous County 河南蒙古族
自治县		 Hénán Měnggǔzú
Zìzhìxiàn		 རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། rma lho sog rigs
rang skyong rdzong
Malho Sogrig
Ranggyong Zong		 39,37 6,250 6.29

Rongwo Monastery

Huangnan is home to Rongwo Monastery, a Gelug monastery initially established in 1341 in Amdo on the Rongwo River.[2][3]

Further reading

Coordinates: 35°31′36″N 102°00′50″E / 35.5267°N 102.014°E / 35.5267; 102.014

References

  1. ↑ 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1981－2010年）. China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ http://www.baronet4tibet.com/sange_shong_info/rongwu.html
  3. ↑ Staff (6 February 2008). "Longwu Temple - garden of Tibetan Buddhism and Western Region". China Tour Guide. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
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