Gadê County
Gadê County
甘德县 • དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང Gande | |
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.png) Gadê County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Gadê Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 34°00′N 100°09′E / 34.000°N 100.150°E / 34.000; 100.150 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Golog |
| County seat | Koqu |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,046 km2 (2,720 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 41,046 |
| • Density | 5.8/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www.gande.gov.cn |
| Gadê County | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘德县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 甘德縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| Tibetan | དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང | ||||||||||
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Gadê County (Tibetan: དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང; Chinese: 甘德县; pinyin: Gāndé Xiàn) is a county in the southeast of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu to the east. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Administrative divisions
Gadê is divided into one town and six townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town | ||||||
| Koqu Town (Kequ) |
柯曲镇 | Kēqū Zhèn | ཁོ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kho chu grong rdal | 632623100 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Kongdoi Township (Shanggongma) |
上贡麻乡 | Shànggòngmá Xiāng | གོང་སྟོད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gong stod yul tsho | 632623200 | |
| Kongmang Township (Xiagongma) |
下贡麻乡 | Xiàgòngmá Xiāng | གོང་སྨང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gong stod yul tsho | 632623201 | |
| Kanglung Township (Ganglong) |
岗龙乡 | Gǎnglóng Xiāng | གངས་ལུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gangs lung yul tsho | 632623202 | |
| Kyinzhi Township (Qingzhen) |
青珍乡 | Qīngzhēn Xiāng | ཁྱི་འབྲི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | khyi 'bri yul tsho | 632623203 | |
| Gyangqai Township (Jiangqian) |
江千乡 | Jiāngqiān Xiāng | རྒྱང་ཆད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rgyang chad yul tsho | 632623204 | |
| Zangxoima Township (Xiazangke) |
下藏科乡 | Xiàzàngkē Xiāng | གཙང་ཞོལ་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gtsang zhol ma yul tsho | 632623205 | |
Climate
| Climate data for Gadê (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 8.7 (47.7) |
9.9 (49.8) |
14.3 (57.7) |
18.8 (65.8) |
19.2 (66.6) |
21.0 (69.8) |
24.2 (75.6) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.0 (71.6) |
20.4 (68.7) |
10.4 (50.7) |
9.2 (48.6) |
24.2 (75.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −4.0 (24.8) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
2.4 (36.3) |
7.0 (44.6) |
10.6 (51.1) |
13.4 (56.1) |
15.8 (60.4) |
15.8 (60.4) |
12.8 (55.0) |
6.8 (44.2) |
1.3 (34.3) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
6.5 (43.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −14.4 (6.1) |
−10.8 (12.6) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
3.4 (38.1) |
7.0 (44.6) |
9.1 (48.4) |
8.4 (47.1) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
−13.4 (7.9) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −22.9 (−9.2) |
−19.0 (−2.2) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
1.8 (35.2) |
3.3 (37.9) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−6.3 (20.7) |
−15.3 (4.5) |
−21.8 (−7.2) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −39.3 (−38.7) |
−33.9 (−29.0) |
−31.5 (−24.7) |
−18.6 (−1.5) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
−7.7 (18.1) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−24.3 (−11.7) |
−31.7 (−25.1) |
−38.4 (−37.1) |
−39.3 (−38.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6.8 (0.27) |
9.1 (0.36) |
15.6 (0.61) |
25.6 (1.01) |
67.0 (2.64) |
102.9 (4.05) |
102.7 (4.04) |
91.6 (3.61) |
75.9 (2.99) |
33.4 (1.31) |
6.7 (0.26) |
3.6 (0.14) |
540.9 (21.29) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 7.7 | 8.9 | 12.2 | 13.3 | 19.0 | 21.8 | 20.0 | 18.7 | 19.1 | 15.3 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 165.8 |
| Average snowy days | 10.2 | 12.0 | 15.6 | 16.2 | 17.4 | 6.1 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 7.4 | 17.3 | 8.2 | 6.4 | 119.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 57 | 55 | 57 | 59 | 66 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 71 | 61 | 55 | 65 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 197.7 | 176.6 | 208.7 | 223.3 | 207.1 | 176.2 | 201.4 | 205.8 | 173.1 | 190.9 | 214.8 | 214.0 | 2,389.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 62 | 57 | 56 | 57 | 48 | 41 | 46 | 50 | 47 | 55 | 70 | 70 | 55 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "果洛州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Hainan Prefecture. 2021-07-09.
- ^ 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.
