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Gyaisi County (Tibetan: བརྒྱད་ཟིལ། / བརྒྱད་ཟུར།, Wylie: brgyad zil / brgyad zur), also Jiulong County (Chinese: 九龙县); is a county located in southeastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China. It has a population of 52000, mainly Tibetans, Hans, and Yis.
Jiulong County
九龙县 · བརྒྱད་ཟིལ་རྫོང་། · ꐳꇊꑤ Gyaisi, Gyézil, Njilop | |
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.png) Jiulong County (red) in Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Jiulong Location of the seat in Sichuan  Jiulong Jiulong (China) | |
| Coordinates (Jiulong County government): 29°00′01″N 101°30′26″E / 29.0003°N 101.5073°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Gor |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,770 km2 (2,610 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 53,738 |
| • Density | 7.9/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
| Jiulong County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 九龙县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 九龍縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | བརྒྱད་ཟིལ་རྫོང་། / བརྒྱད་ཟུར་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Yi name | |||||||
| Yi | ꐳꇊꑤ Romanisation: nji lop xiep | ||||||
Administrative divisions
editGyaisi County contains 9 towns, 4 townships, and 3 ethnic townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Yi | Romanized Yi | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||||
| Gor Town (Ga'er) |
呷尔镇 | Gā'ěr Zhèn | སྒོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgor grong rdal | 513324100 | |||
| Yandai Town (Yaindain) |
烟袋镇 | Yāndài Zhèn | ཡན་ཏན་ཀྲེན། | yan tan kren | 513324101 | |||
| Sayag Town (Sanya) |
三垭镇 | Sānyā Zhèn | ས་ཡག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sa yag grong rdal | 513324102 | |||
| Qêwalung Town (Xuewalong) |
雪洼龙镇 | Xuěwālóng Zhèn | བྱེ་བ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bye ba lung grong rdal | 513324103 | |||
| Mukyü Town (Wanba) |
湾坝镇 | Wānbà Zhèn | མུ་ཁྱུད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mu khyud grong rdal | 513324104 | |||
| Tanggo Town (Tanggu) |
汤古镇 | Tānggǔ Zhèn | ཐང་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thang mgo grong rdal | 513324105 | |||
| Ulagqoin Town (Wulaxi) |
乌拉溪镇 | Wūlāxī Zhèn | འུ་ལག་བྱོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'u lag byon grong rdal | 513324106 | |||
| Kardo Town (Kuiduo) |
魁多镇 | Kuíduō Zhèn | འཁར་རྡོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'khar rdo grong rdal | 513324107 | |||
| Laqu Town (Naiqu) |
乃渠镇 | Nǎiqú Zhèn | ལ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | la chu grong rdal | 513324108 | |||
| Townships | ||||||||
| Sangngagrong Township (Sanyanlong) |
三岩龙乡 | Sānyánlóng Xiāng | གསང་སྔགས་རོང་ཤང་། | gsang sngags rong shang | 513324202 | |||
| Sangtoin Township (Shangtuan) |
上团乡 | Shàngtuán Xiāng | སང་ཐོན་ཤང་། | sang thon shang | 513324203 | |||
| Baworong Township (Ba'obrong, Bawolung) |
八窝龙乡 | Bāwōlóng Xiāng | དཔའ་བོ་རོང་ཤང་། | dpa' bo rong shang | 513324204 | |||
| Hurba Township (Hongba) |
洪坝乡 | Hóngbà Xiāng | ཧུར་པ་ཤང་། | hur pa shang | 513324216 | |||
| Ethnic townships | ||||||||
| Zylur Yi Ethnic Township (Zi'er) |
子耳彝族乡 | Zǐ'ěr Yízú Xiāng | ꊪꇓꆈꌠꑣ | zy lur nuo su xie | 513324209 | |||
| Xuoji Yi Ethnic Township (Xiaojin) |
小金彝族乡 | Xiǎojīn Yízú Xiāng | ꑦꏢꆈꌠꑣ | xuo ji nuo su xie | 513324212 | |||
| Dolop Yi Ethnic Township (Duoluo) |
朵洛彝族乡 | Duǒluò Yízú Xiāng | ꄏꇊꆈꌠꑣ | do lop nuo su xie | 513324213 | |||
Geography and climate
editDue to its elevation, Jiulong County has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb), with strong monsoonal influences; winters are frosty and summers warm with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 1.6 °C (34.9 °F) in December and January to 15.3 °C (59.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 9.1 °C (48.4 °F). Over 75% of the annual precipitation of 922.5 mm (36.3 in) occurs from June through September. With monthly average percentage of sunny days ranging from 32% in July to 58% in January, the county seat receives 1,983 hours of bright sunshine annually. Diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 14.2 °C (25.6 °F) annually.
| Climate data for Jiulong, elevation 2,925 m (9,596 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 23.5 (74.3) |
25.3 (77.5) |
26.4 (79.5) |
28.0 (82.4) |
31.2 (88.2) |
31.7 (89.1) |
30.2 (86.4) |
29.3 (84.7) |
29.1 (84.4) |
25.1 (77.2) |
22.6 (72.7) |
20.5 (68.9) |
31.7 (89.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) |
14.2 (57.6) |
16.9 (62.4) |
19.5 (67.1) |
21.4 (70.5) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.8 (71.2) |
21.7 (71.1) |
20.0 (68.0) |
17.9 (64.2) |
15.0 (59.0) |
12.4 (54.3) |
17.9 (64.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.8 (35.2) |
4.2 (39.6) |
7.2 (45.0) |
10.0 (50.0) |
13.1 (55.6) |
15.0 (59.0) |
15.4 (59.7) |
15.2 (59.4) |
13.7 (56.7) |
10.4 (50.7) |
5.4 (41.7) |
2.0 (35.6) |
9.5 (49.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.5 (22.1) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
2.9 (37.2) |
7.1 (44.8) |
10.7 (51.3) |
11.7 (53.1) |
11.4 (52.5) |
10.0 (50.0) |
5.9 (42.6) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
3.8 (38.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −15.6 (3.9) |
−13.1 (8.4) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
−5.6 (21.9) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
2.6 (36.7) |
3.5 (38.3) |
2.5 (36.5) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−10.5 (13.1) |
−14.4 (6.1) |
−15.6 (3.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.8 (0.11) |
4.3 (0.17) |
20.3 (0.80) |
42.3 (1.67) |
86.7 (3.41) |
203.4 (8.01) |
190.0 (7.48) |
150.7 (5.93) |
149.5 (5.89) |
51.2 (2.02) |
12.0 (0.47) |
2.1 (0.08) |
915.3 (36.04) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.2 | 3.1 | 8.5 | 13.2 | 18.0 | 24.4 | 25.3 | 23.3 | 22.9 | 12.5 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 160.2 |
| Average snowy days | 5.5 | 6.1 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 24.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 41 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 62 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 186.0 | 176.0 | 189.0 | 185.6 | 181.9 | 145.3 | 132.1 | 134.5 | 133.0 | 163.1 | 176.1 | 183.7 | 1,986.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 57 | 55 | 51 | 48 | 43 | 35 | 31 | 33 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 58 | 46 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China[4] | |||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ 九龙 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
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