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Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 门源回族自治县; traditional Chinese: 門源回族自治縣; pinyin: Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn, Xiao'erjing: مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا; Tibetan: སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན།) is a county in the northeast of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu Province to the north. It is under the administration of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Menyuan is situated on the Datong River between the Qilian Mountains and Daban Mountains. Gangshiqia Peak rises dramatically in the north of the county. It used to be called Menyuan (亹源) in Chinese, with a different first character from the current name.
Menyuan County
门源县 · مٍیُوًا · འཇུ་ལག་རྫོང་། | |
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| 门源回族自治县 · مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا · སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན། Hualong Hui Autonomous County | |
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.png) Location of Menyuan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Menyuan Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 37°26′N 101°42′E / 37.433°N 101.700°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haibei |
| County seat | Haomen Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,381.65 km2 (2,463.97 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 138,335 |
| • Density | 22/km2 (56/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Menyuan Hui Autonomous County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 门源回族自治县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 門源回族自治縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན། or འཇུ་ལག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
| Mongolian name | |||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠮᠧᠨ ᠶᠤᠸᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠣᠩ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||
Administrative divisions
editHaiyan County is made up of 4 towns, 7 townships, and 1 ethnic township:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Towns | ||||||
| Haomen Town (Julag Town) |
浩门镇 | Hàomén Zhèn | འཇུ་ལག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'ju lag grong rdal | 632221100 | |
| Qingshiju Town (Dê'gyaitiubur Town) |
青石咀镇 | Qīngshíjǔ Zhèn | སྡེ་བརྒྱད་དེའུ་འབུར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sde brgyad de'u 'bur grong rdal | 632221101 | |
| Quankou Town (Xartang Town) |
泉口镇 | Quánkǒu Zhèn | ཤར་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | shar thang grong rdal | 632221102 | |
| Dongchuan Town | 东川镇 | Dōngchuān Zhèn | 632221103 | |||
| Townships | ||||||
| Beishan Township (Qangri Township) |
北山乡 | Běishān Xiāng | བྱང་རི་ཞང་། | byang ri zhang | 632221200 | |
| Malian Township | 麻莲乡 | Málián Xiāng | 632221201 | |||
| Xitan Township (Nubtang Township) |
西滩乡 | Xītān Xiāng | ནུབ་ཐང་ཞང་། | nub thang zhang | 632221202 | |
| Yintian Township (Sibxing Township) |
阴田乡 | Yīntián Xiāng | སྲིབ་ཞིང་ཞང་། | srib zhing zhang | 632221203 | |
| Xianmi Township (Sêmnyi Township) |
仙米乡 | Xiānmǐ Xiāng | སེམས་ཉིད་ཞང་། | sems nyid zhang | 632221204 | |
| Zhugu Township (Chuku Township) |
珠固乡 | Zhūgù Xiāng | དྲུ་གུ་ཞང་། | dru gu zhang | 632221205 | |
| Sujitan Township (Soi'gyitang Township) |
苏吉滩乡 | Sūjítān Xiāng | བསོད་སྐྱིད་ཐང་ཞང་། | bsod skyid thang zhang | 632221206 | |
| Ethnic township | ||||||
| Huangcheng Mongol Ethnic Township | 皇城蒙古族乡 | Huángchéng Ménggǔzú Xiāng | 632221207 | (Mongolian) ᠬᠤᠸᠠᠩ ᠴᠧᠩ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠩ | ||
Others:
- Menyuan Prison (门源监狱)
- Menyuan Stallion Ranch (门源种马场)
Climate
edit| Climate data for Menyuan, elevation 2,850 m (9,350 ft), (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −1.8 (28.8) |
2.2 (36.0) |
6.6 (43.9) |
11.8 (53.2) |
15.4 (59.7) |
18.5 (65.3) |
20.7 (69.3) |
20.1 (68.2) |
16.1 (61.0) |
10.5 (50.9) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
10.3 (50.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −12.0 (10.4) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
3.6 (38.5) |
7.7 (45.9) |
11.2 (52.2) |
13.2 (55.8) |
12.3 (54.1) |
8.4 (47.1) |
2.5 (36.5) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−11.1 (12.0) |
1.8 (35.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.5 (−3.1) |
−15.3 (4.5) |
−8.7 (16.3) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
1.2 (34.2) |
4.8 (40.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
6.3 (43.3) |
3.1 (37.6) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−18.1 (−0.6) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.0 (0.08) |
4.5 (0.18) |
16.4 (0.65) |
34.1 (1.34) |
67.5 (2.66) |
82.6 (3.25) |
89.2 (3.51) |
115.4 (4.54) |
83.9 (3.30) |
26.6 (1.05) |
5.7 (0.22) |
2.0 (0.08) |
529.9 (20.86) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.3 | 4.4 | 9.1 | 10.4 | 14.4 | 17.8 | 17.4 | 17.9 | 16.8 | 9.7 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 127.3 |
| Average snowy days | 4.6 | 6.8 | 11.9 | 10.9 | 5.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 7.3 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 57.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 50 | 48 | 52 | 55 | 60 | 66 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 68 | 60 | 54 | 61 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 202.8 | 196.9 | 218.7 | 219.2 | 225.0 | 209.9 | 212.6 | 198.3 | 170.8 | 202.2 | 214.3 | 204.8 | 2,475.5 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 66 | 64 | 58 | 55 | 51 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 47 | 59 | 71 | 69 | 57 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "海北州第七次全国人口普查公报（第一、二、三、四、五、六号）" (in Chinese). Government of Haibei Prefecture. 2022-12-02.
- ^ 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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