Jainca County
Jainca 尖扎县 · གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། | |
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County | |
Coordinates: 35°56′18″N 102°02′00″E / 35.93833°N 102.03333°ECoordinates: 35°56′18″N 102°02′00″E / 35.93833°N 102.03333°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Qinghai |
Autonomous prefecture | Huangnan |
County seat | Markhu Thang |
Area | |
• Total | 1,714 km2 (662 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1,990 m (6,530 ft) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 55,325 |
• Density | 32/km2 (84/sq mi) |
Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Postal code | 811200 |
Area code(s) | 0973 |
Jainzha County or Chentsa County (Tibetan: གཅན་ཚ།: Wylie: gcan tsha; Chinese: 尖扎县, pinyin: Jiānzhā Xiàn) is a county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China, to Tibetans in the area known as Malho Prefecture, part of Amdo. There are 6 townships, 3 towns and a total of 79 administrative villages in Chentsa county. The county has an area of 1714 square kilometres and a population of ~50,000 (2001), 67% Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Markhu Thang (Tibetan: མར་ཁུ་ཐང་།, Wylie: mar khu thang; Chinese: 马克堂, pinyin: Maketang).
Climate
Jainca County has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) and it had the extreme high temperature at Qinghai of 40.3 °C(104.5 °F) on July 24, 2000.
Climate data for Jainca County | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 12.7 (54.9) |
18.2 (64.8) |
29.5 (85.1) |
34.5 (94.1) |
31.6 (88.9) |
33.1 (91.6) |
40.3 (104.5) |
36.0 (96.8) |
31.9 (89.4) |
26.0 (78.8) |
18.9 (66) |
12.8 (55) |
40.3 (104.5) |
Average high °C (°F) | 2.9 (37.2) |
6.6 (43.9) |
12.1 (53.8) |
18.1 (64.6) |
21.8 (71.2) |
24.5 (76.1) |
26.7 (80.1) |
26.0 (78.8) |
21.1 (70) |
15.8 (60.4) |
10.0 (50) |
4.2 (39.6) |
15.82 (60.48) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −5.1 (22.8) |
−1.1 (30) |
4.4 (39.9) |
10.4 (50.7) |
14.6 (58.3) |
17.6 (63.7) |
19.7 (67.5) |
18.9 (66) |
14.4 (57.9) |
8.5 (47.3) |
1.7 (35.1) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
8.33 (47) |
Average low °C (°F) | −11.3 (11.7) |
−7.3 (18.9) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
4.0 (39.2) |
8.2 (46.8) |
11.4 (52.5) |
13.6 (56.5) |
13.2 (55.8) |
9.4 (48.9) |
3.1 (37.6) |
−4.5 (23.9) |
−9.9 (14.2) |
2.37 (36.28) |
Record low °C (°F) | −18.8 (−1.8) |
−16.4 (2.5) |
−13.7 (7.3) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
3.5 (38.3) |
5.6 (42.1) |
6.9 (44.4) |
1.2 (34.2) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−14 (7) |
−18.7 (−1.7) |
−18.8 (−1.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.7 (0.028) |
0.7 (0.028) |
5.0 (0.197) |
16.1 (0.634) |
47.7 (1.878) |
56.9 (2.24) |
74.7 (2.941) |
70.2 (2.764) |
55.1 (2.169) |
18.4 (0.724) |
1.3 (0.051) |
0.4 (0.016) |
347.2 (13.67) |
Source: China Meteorological Administration,[1] |
See also
References
- ↑ 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.
External links
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