Markam County
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Markam County
芒康县 • སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་། | |
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 Location of Markam County within Tibet | |
  Markam County Location in Tibet  Markam County Markam County (China) | |
| Coordinates: 29°41′35″N 98°35′49″E / 29.693°N 98.597°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Chamdo |
| County seat | Gartok |
| Area | |
• Total | 11,576.21 km2 (4,469.60 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 79,001 |
| • Density | 6.8244/km2 (17.675/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | mangkang |
| Markam County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 芒康县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 芒康縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Markam County (Tibetan: སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 芒康县) is a county under the jurisdiction of Chamdo in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the east and Yunnan to the south. It is the easternmost county-level division of the Tibet A.R.
Administrative divisions
[edit]Markam County is divided in 2 towns, 13 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Towns | ||||||
| Gartok Town | 嘎托镇 | Gātuō zhèn | སྒར་ཐོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgar thog grong rdal | ||
| Rongmé Town | 如美镇 | Rúměi zhèn | རོང་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rong smad grong rdal | ||
| Townships | ||||||
| Zurdeshö Township | 索多西乡 | Suǒduōxī xiāng | ཟུར་བདེ་ཤོད་ཤང་། | zur bde shod shang | ||
| Bumpa Township | 莽岭乡 | Mǎnglǐng xiāng | འབུམ་པ་ཤང་། | 'bum pa shang | ||
| Tsangshö Township | 宗西乡 | Zōngxī xiāng | གཙང་ཤོད་ཤང་། | gtsang shod shang | ||
| Gardo Township | 昂多乡 | Ángduō xiāng | མགར་མདོ་ཤང་། | mgar mdo shang | ||
| Co'nga Township | 措瓦乡 | Cuòwǎ xiāng | མཚོ་རྔ་ཤང་། | mtsho rnga shang | ||
| Norné Township | 洛尼乡 | Luòní xiāng | ནོར་གནས་ཤང་། | nor gnas shang | ||
| Göpo Township | 戈波乡 | Gēbō xiāng | རྒོད་པོ་ཤང་། | rgod po shang | ||
| Pangda Township | 帮达乡 | Bāngdá xiāng | སྤང་མདའ་ཤང་། | spang mda' shang | ||
| Jidrong Township | 徐中乡 | Xúzhōng xiāng | བྱིས་གྲོངས་ཤང་། | byis grongs shang | ||
| Chörten Township | 曲登乡 | Qǔdēng xiāng | མཆོད་རྟེན་ཤང་། | mchod rten shang | ||
| Mokshö Township | 木许乡 | Mùxǔ xiāng | རྨོག་ཤོད་ཤང་། | rmog shod shang | ||
| Chupalung Township | 朱巴龙乡 | Zhūbālóng xiāng | གྲུ་པ་ལུང་ཤང་། | gru pa lung shang | ||
| Chutsenkha Township | 曲孜卡乡 | Qǔzīkǎ xiāng | ཆུ་ཚན་ཁ་ཤང་། | chu tshan kha shang | ||
| Ethnic township | ||||||
| Naxi Ethnic Township | 纳西民族乡 | Nàxī mínzúxiāng | འཇང་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། | 'jang mi rigs shang | ||
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for Markam, elevation 3,847 m (12,621 ft), (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) |
6.3 (43.3) |
8.8 (47.8) |
11.9 (53.4) |
16.1 (61.0) |
19.1 (66.4) |
18.7 (65.7) |
18.3 (64.9) |
17.2 (63.0) |
13.6 (56.5) |
9.3 (48.7) |
6.4 (43.5) |
12.5 (54.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −5.0 (23.0) |
−2.9 (26.8) |
0.4 (32.7) |
4.0 (39.2) |
8.3 (46.9) |
11.9 (53.4) |
12.2 (54.0) |
11.7 (53.1) |
9.9 (49.8) |
5.4 (41.7) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
4.3 (39.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −12.9 (8.8) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
−6.6 (20.1) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
1.6 (34.9) |
6.1 (43.0) |
7.8 (46.0) |
7.4 (45.3) |
5.1 (41.2) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−11.6 (11.1) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.1 (0.04) |
3.6 (0.14) |
11.0 (0.43) |
22.7 (0.89) |
34.6 (1.36) |
94.7 (3.73) |
175.7 (6.92) |
152.5 (6.00) |
87.8 (3.46) |
17.6 (0.69) |
4.7 (0.19) |
1.6 (0.06) |
607.6 (23.91) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.9 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 9.5 | 9.9 | 16.5 | 21.2 | 20.7 | 14.8 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 113.3 |
| Average snowy days | 4.6 | 5.8 | 10.0 | 12.7 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 3.1 | 51.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 46 | 47 | 52 | 56 | 57 | 64 | 72 | 74 | 72 | 63 | 54 | 47 | 59 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 248.8 | 227.0 | 241.0 | 226.4 | 231.6 | 203.5 | 167.5 | 177.0 | 200.8 | 236.1 | 236.5 | 246.7 | 2,642.9 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 76 | 72 | 64 | 58 | 55 | 49 | 39 | 44 | 55 | 67 | 75 | 78 | 61 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
- ^ 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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