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| Xiangcheng County 乡城县 · ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་།Qagchêng | |
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| County | |
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.png) Location of Xiangcheng County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
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| Coordinates: 29°16′57″N 99°36′29″E / 29.2825°N 99.6081°E / 29.2825; 99.6081 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Shambala |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,016 km (1,937 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 31,407 |
| • Density | 6.3/km (16/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Xiangcheng County, Sichuan | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 乡城县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄉城縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Xiangcheng County or Qagchêng (Chinese: 乡城县; Tibetan: ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་།) is a county in the west of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Yunnan province to the south. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Administrative divisions
Xiangcheng County is divided into 3 towns and 7 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Towns | ||||||
| Shambala Town (Xambala, Xiangbala) |
香巴拉镇 | Xiāngbālā Zhèn | ཤམ་བྷ་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sham bha la grong rdal | 513336100 | |
| Chêngdoi Town (Qingde) |
青德镇 | Qīngdé Zhèn | ཕྲེང་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phreng stod grong rdal | 513336101 | |
| Radag Town (Reda) |
热打镇 | Rèdǎ Zhèn | རྭ་རྟགས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rwa rtags grong rdal | 513336103 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Sakong Township (Shagong) |
沙贡乡 | Shāgòng Xiāng | ས་གོང་ཤང་། | sa gong shang | 513336201 | |
| Siwa Township (Shuiwa) |
水洼乡 | Shuǐwā Xiāng | བསིལ་བ་ཤང་། | bsil ba shang | 513336202 | |
| Ragwa Township (Ranwu) |
然乌乡 | Ránwū Xiāng | རག་ཝ་ཤང་། | rag wa shang | 513336205 | |
| Dongsum Township (Dongsong) |
洞松乡 | Dòngsōng Xiāng | གདོང་གསུམ་ཤང་། | gdong gsum shang | 513336206 | |
| Dêmo Township (Dingbo) |
定波乡 | Dìngbō Xiāng | བདེ་མོ་ཤང་། | bde mo shang | 513336208 | |
| Zhodog Township (Zhengdou) |
正斗乡 | Zhèngdǒu Xiāng | སྒྲོ་མདོག་ཤང་། | sgro mdog shang | 513336209 | |
| Bayü Township (Baiyi) |
白依乡 | Báiyī Xiāng | དཔའ་ཡུལ་ཤང་། | dpa' yul shang | 513336210 | |
Climate
| Climate data for Xiangcheng, elevation 2,844 m (9,331 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) | 22.0 (71.6) |
22.7 (72.9) |
27.4 (81.3) |
29.7 (85.5) |
30.5 (86.9) |
32.5 (90.5) |
34.4 (93.9) |
31.8 (89.2) |
31.0 (87.8) |
27.3 (81.1) |
23.5 (74.3) |
20.6 (69.1) |
34.4 (93.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) |
14.1 (57.4) |
16.6 (61.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
23.1 (73.6) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.5 (76.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
22.9 (73.2) |
20.4 (68.7) |
16.6 (61.9) |
13.3 (55.9) |
19.4 (66.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) |
5.1 (41.2) |
8.1 (46.6) |
11.5 (52.7) |
15.6 (60.1) |
18.6 (65.5) |
17.7 (63.9) |
16.9 (62.4) |
15.6 (60.1) |
11.8 (53.2) |
6.7 (44.1) |
3.0 (37.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.3 (22.5) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
0.4 (32.7) |
4.2 (39.6) |
8.4 (47.1) |
12.3 (54.1) |
13.1 (55.6) |
12.5 (54.5) |
10.7 (51.3) |
5.0 (41.0) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
4.4 (39.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −14.4 (6.1) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−6.3 (20.7) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
3.6 (38.5) |
5.1 (41.2) |
5.6 (42.1) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−8.3 (17.1) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−14.4 (6.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.6 (0.06) |
1.4 (0.06) |
5.9 (0.23) |
11.0 (0.43) |
26.5 (1.04) |
73.8 (2.91) |
159.9 (6.30) |
130.4 (5.13) |
69.2 (2.72) |
15.3 (0.60) |
2.6 (0.10) |
0.5 (0.02) |
498.1 (19.6) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.3 | 1.6 | 4.0 | 7.2 | 9.1 | 14.7 | 22.3 | 21.1 | 14.0 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 102.9 |
| Average snowy days | 2.4 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 10.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 34 | 34 | 39 | 44 | 47 | 56 | 70 | 73 | 69 | 56 | 43 | 36 | 50 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 200.5 | 184.3 | 202.2 | 196.7 | 203.5 | 176.3 | 140.7 | 145.2 | 140.3 | 176.2 | 189.5 | 204.7 | 2,160.1 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 61 | 58 | 54 | 51 | 48 | 42 | 33 | 36 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 64 | 50 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
Terrain maps
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NH 47-11 (Taocheng)
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NH 47-15 (Tejung)
References
- "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 14 April 2023.
- 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
External links
Xiangcheng travel guide from Wikivoyage
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