| Li County 理县 · ལིས་རྫོང་། · BezLixian | |
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| County | |
 Bailong Waterfall in Bipenggou, Li County | |
.png) Li County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province | |
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| Coordinates (Li County government): 31°26′09″N 103°09′48″E / 31.4358°N 103.1633°E / 31.4358; 103.1633 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| County seat | Zhaxiling (Zagunao) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,318 km (1,667 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 36,926 |
| • Density | 8.6/km (22/sq mi) |
| • Major nationalities | Tibetan - 53.43% Qiang - 33.50% Han - 12.46% Hui - 0.41% |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Li County, Sichuan | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 理县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 理縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ལིས་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Qiang name | |||||||
| Qiang | Bez | ||||||
Li County or Lixian (Chinese: 理县; Tibetan: ལིས་རྫོང་།; Qiang: pauɕuq), formerly known as Lifan (理番), is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. China National Highway G317 and the Zhaxiling River run through the whole territory.
On May 12, 2008, the area was affected by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Geography
Li County is located from 30°54′43″N 102°32′46″E / 30.91194°N 102.54611°E / 30.91194; 102.54611 (30.911944°, 102.546111°) to 31°12′12″N 103°30′30″E / 31.20333°N 103.50833°E / 31.20333; 103.50833 (31.203333°, 103.508333°).
Climate
| Climate data for Lixian, elevation 1,897 m (6,224 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.9 (69.6) |
30.4 (86.7) |
31.7 (89.1) |
32.0 (89.6) |
33.4 (92.1) |
34.6 (94.3) |
35.8 (96.4) |
34.4 (93.9) |
33.6 (92.5) |
27.6 (81.7) |
24.4 (75.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
35.8 (96.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.8 (44.2) |
10.8 (51.4) |
15.4 (59.7) |
20.6 (69.1) |
23.1 (73.6) |
24.8 (76.6) |
27.3 (81.1) |
27.5 (81.5) |
23.2 (73.8) |
18.2 (64.8) |
13.4 (56.1) |
8.1 (46.6) |
18.3 (64.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) |
3.9 (39.0) |
8.1 (46.6) |
12.7 (54.9) |
15.8 (60.4) |
18.2 (64.8) |
20.6 (69.1) |
20.6 (69.1) |
17.1 (62.8) |
12.3 (54.1) |
7.2 (45.0) |
2.2 (36.0) |
11.6 (53.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.1 (26.4) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
3.3 (37.9) |
7.4 (45.3) |
10.8 (51.4) |
13.9 (57.0) |
16.1 (61.0) |
16.1 (61.0) |
13.3 (55.9) |
8.7 (47.7) |
3.2 (37.8) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
7.3 (45.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −11.0 (12.2) |
−10.9 (12.4) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
3.2 (37.8) |
7.2 (45.0) |
9.3 (48.7) |
7.4 (45.3) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
−5.3 (22.5) |
−12.1 (10.2) |
−12.1 (10.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.5 (0.30) |
12.4 (0.49) |
34.1 (1.34) |
62.2 (2.45) |
96.8 (3.81) |
108.1 (4.26) |
76.2 (3.00) |
68.8 (2.71) |
78.3 (3.08) |
63.2 (2.49) |
15.2 (0.60) |
4.1 (0.16) |
626.9 (24.69) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.8 | 8.3 | 13.0 | 16.9 | 19.6 | 21.0 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 7.3 | 3.9 | 162 |
| Average snowy days | 12.2 | 11.1 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 7.1 | 39.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 62 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 69 | 73 | 73 | 69 | 64 | 67 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 80.7 | 130.5 | 162.7 | 174.8 | 170.9 | 136.8 | 158.3 | 164.5 | 128.8 | 121.7 | 87.2 | 67.7 | 1,584.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 25 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 40 | 32 | 37 | 40 | 35 | 35 | 28 | 22 | 35 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
Li County oversees 6 towns and 5 townships.The county government is seated in the town of Zhaxiling.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Qiang | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | |||||||
| Zhaxiling Town (Zagunao) |
杂谷脑镇 | Zágǔnǎo Zhèn | བཀྲ་ཤིས་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bkra shis gling grong rdal | Bawxiaen | 513222100 | |
| Nyaglo Town (Miyaluo) |
米亚罗镇 | Mǐyàluó Zhèn | མྱག་ལོ་ཀྲེན། | myag lo kren | Miyalo | 513222101 | |
| Gubrago Town (Gu'ergou) |
古尔沟镇 | Gǔ'ěrgōu Zhèn | ཀུབ་ར་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kub ra mgo grong rdal | Guergeu | 513222102 | |
| Xuecheng Town (Xüchêng) |
薛城镇 | Xuēchéng Zhèn | ཞུའེ་ཁྲེང་ཀྲེན་། | zhuve khreng kren | 513222103 | ||
| Taoping Town | 桃坪镇 | Táopíng Zhèn | ཐའོ་ཕིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thavo phing grong rdal | Saqi | 513222104 | |
| Putou Town (Püdü) |
朴头镇 | Pǔtóu Zhèn | ཕུའི་འཏུའི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phuvi vtuvi grong rdal | 513222105 | ||
| Townships | |||||||
| Ganbao Township (Gainpu) |
甘堡乡 | Gānbǎo Xiāng | ཀམ་ཕུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kam phu yul tsho | 513222202 | ||
| Puxi Township (Puqi) |
蒲溪乡 | Púxī Xiāng | ཕུའུ་ཆི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | phuvu chi yul tsho | 513222203 | ||
| Bodogxugo Township (Shangmeng) |
上孟乡 | Shàngmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཀོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu ko yul tsho | 513222204 | ||
| Bodogxudo Township (Xiameng) |
下孟乡 | Xiàmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཏོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu to yul tsho | 513222205 | ||
| Tonghua Township | 通化乡 | Tōnghuà Xiāng | ཐོང་ཧྭ་ཞང་། | thong hwa zhang | 513222207 | ||
Demographics
As of 2018, Li County had a registered population of 43,375. 11,706 of the county's population, or 27%, is urbanized.
The county had a population of 42,494 in 1999.
Ethnic groups
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Tibetan | 23,175 | 53.43% |
| Qiang | 14,531 | 33.50% |
| Han | 5,405 | 12.46% |
| Hui | 179 | 0.41% |
| Other | 85 | 0.20% |
Transport
Notes
- The former source (stats.gov.cn) indicates 6 towns and 7 townships as of the start of 2019, whereas the latter source (sc.gov.cn) documents a decree passed in December 2019 revoking 1 of the 7 townships, bringing the number down to 6.
- "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
- ^ abazhou.gov.cn Archived 2008-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
- 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.
- 2019年统计用区划代码. www.stats.gov.cn (in Chinese). 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- 四川省人民政府关于同意阿坝州调整马尔康市等10个县（市）部分乡镇行政区划的批复（川府民政〔2019〕22号）. sc.gov.cn (in Chinese). 2019-12-20. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ 理县概况地图. xzqh.org (in Chinese). 2015-12-17. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ 人口民族. Li County People's Government (in Chinese). 2019-11-27. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- (in English) National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
External links
- (in Chinese) New County Government Website
- (in Chinese) Old County Government Website - Google translation
- (in Chinese) Li County (bashu.net) - Google translation