Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County
Datong County
大通县 གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་། | |
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| 大通回族土族自治县 རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། · دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا · Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County | |
 Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye | |
.png) Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai | |
Location of Datong | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture-level city | Xining |
| Seat | Qiaotou Town |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,090 km2 (1,190 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,442 m (8,012 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 403,368 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 大通回族土族自治县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 大通回族土族自治縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། or གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong County, or Serkhog County (simplified Chinese: 大通回族土族自治县; traditional Chinese: 大通回族土族自治縣; pinyin: Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང; or more frequently Tibetan: གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང; Monguor: Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan; Xiao'erjing: دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا) is an autonomous county of Hui and Tu peoples in Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai.[1][2][3][4][5]
Since 2009, a folk music "Flower Festival" has been held annually in late July on "Mount Laoye" (2928 m) in Datong town.[6]
Subdivisions
Datong County is divided into 9 towns, 9 townships, and 2 ethnic townships:
- Qiaotou Town (桥头镇)
- Chengguan Town (城关镇)
- Tar Town (塔尔镇)
- Huangjiazhai Town (黄家寨镇)
- Changning Town (长宁镇)
- Jingyang Town (景阳镇)
- Duolin Town (多林镇)
- Xinzhuang Town (新庄镇)
- Qinglin Township (青林乡)
- Xunrang Township (逊让乡)
- Jile Township (极乐乡)
- Shishan Township (石山乡)
- Baoku Township (宝库乡)
- Xiegou Township (斜沟乡)
- Liangjiao Township (良教乡)
- Hualin Township (桦林乡)
- Xangba Tibetan Ethnic Township (向化藏族乡, ཞང་དཔའ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
- Shobê Tibetan Ethnic Township (朔北藏族乡, ཧྲོ་པེ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
Climate
| Climate data for Datong (1993–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 0.9 (33.6) |
4.8 (40.6) |
9.7 (49.5) |
15.2 (59.4) |
18.7 (65.7) |
21.4 (70.5) |
23.4 (74.1) |
22.5 (72.5) |
18.2 (64.8) |
13.1 (55.6) |
7.4 (45.3) |
2.2 (36.0) |
13.1 (55.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.4 (16.9) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
1.5 (34.7) |
7.2 (45.0) |
11.2 (52.2) |
14.2 (57.6) |
16.2 (61.2) |
15.3 (59.5) |
11.2 (52.2) |
5.6 (42.1) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
5.2 (41.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.7 (3.7) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−4.9 (23.2) |
0.3 (32.5) |
4.4 (39.9) |
7.8 (46.0) |
10.1 (50.2) |
9.8 (49.6) |
6.3 (43.3) |
0.4 (32.7) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−13.8 (7.2) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.1 (0.08) |
2.1 (0.08) |
14.5 (0.57) |
33.1 (1.30) |
66.1 (2.60) |
86.1 (3.39) |
99.4 (3.91) |
115.1 (4.53) |
82.8 (3.26) |
28.5 (1.12) |
5 (0.2) |
1.4 (0.06) |
536.2 (21.1) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.7 | 4.2 | 6.5 | 8.2 | 13.0 | 16.5 | 17.1 | 17.4 | 16.5 | 9.1 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 118.8 |
| Average snowy days | 5.8 | 6.9 | 9.4 | 5.9 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 42.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 51 | 47 | 48 | 50 | 56 | 64 | 69 | 72 | 74 | 67 | 60 | 55 | 59 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 200.9 | 200.2 | 227.4 | 230.9 | 237.1 | 218.6 | 221.9 | 211.1 | 175.8 | 196.1 | 204.1 | 197.9 | 2,522 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 65 | 65 | 61 | 58 | 54 | 50 | 50 | 51 | 48 | 57 | 68 | 66 | 58 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
- China National Highway 227
- Xining–Datong Expressway (Ningda Expressway)
- Xining–Datong Railway (Ningda Railway, 宁大铁路), a 39-km long dead-end railway branch constructed in 1966-1968 and primarily serving a local coal mine. In the past, passenger service operated on the line, but ceased in 2008.
- Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway (Datong West Station; 36°57′58″N 101°40′19″E / 36.966168°N 101.672054°E / 36.966168; 101.672054), opened in December 2014. Very limited service.
See also
References
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37°05′38″N 101°27′32″E / 37.0939°N 101.459°E / 37.0939; 101.459
