Maqên County

Maqên County
玛沁县 · རྨ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Maqin
Peak Amne Machin, the highest peak of the mountain range of the same name
Peak Amne Machin, the highest peak of the mountain range of the same name
Maqên County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Maqên County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Maqên is located in Qinghai
Maqên
Maqên
Location of the county seat in Qinghai
Coordinates (Maqên County government): 34°28′41″N 100°14′20″E / 34.4780°N 100.2389°E / 34.4780; 100.2389
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureGolog
County seatDawo (Dawu)
Area
 • Total13,400 km2 (5,200 sq mi)
Elevation
3,700 m (12,140 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total58,117
 • Density4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.maqin.gov.cn
Maqên County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese玛沁
Traditional Chinese瑪沁
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMǎqìn Xiàn
Wade–GilesMa-ch‘in hsien
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྨ་ཆེན་རྫོང
Transcriptions
Wylierma chen rdzong
Tibetan PinyinMaqên Zong

Maqên or Maqin County is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Name

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The county is named for Anyê Maqên, the Tibetan name for a revered local mountain.[citation needed]

Administrative divisions

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Maqên is divided into two towns and six townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Dawo Town
(Dawu)
大武镇 Dàwǔ Zhèn རྟ་བོ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། rta bo grong brdal 632621100
Ra'gya Town
(Lajia)
拉加镇 Lājiā Zhèn རྭ་རྒྱ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། rwa rgya grong brdal 632621101
Townships
Dawo Township
(Dawu)
大武乡 Dàwǔ Xiāng རྟ་བོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rta bo yul tsho 632621200
Domkog Township
(Dongqinggou)
东倾沟乡 Dōngqīnggōu Xiāng སྡོམ་ཁོག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། sdom khog yul tsho 632621201
Kangri Township
(Xueshan)
雪山乡 Xuěshān Xiāng གངས་རི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། gangs ri yul tsho 632621202
Damai Township
(Xiadawu)
下大武乡 Xiàdàwǔ Xiāng རྟ་སྨད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rta smad yul tsho 632621203
Yigxung Township
(Youyun)
优云乡 Yōuyún Xiāng དབྱིག་གཞུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། dbyig gzhung yul tsho 632621204
Tanglag Township
(Dangluo)
当洛乡 Dāngluò Xiāng དྭངས་ལག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། dwangs lag yul tsho 632621205

Climate

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Maqên County has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dwc) bordering on an alpine tundra climate

Climate data for Maqên County, elevation 3,719 m (12,201 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −0.3
(31.5)
2.1
(35.8)
5.6
(42.1)
9.9
(49.8)
12.8
(55.0)
15.0
(59.0)
17.4
(63.3)
17.5
(63.5)
14.6
(58.3)
9.3
(48.7)
4.5
(40.1)
0.8
(33.4)
9.1
(48.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) −11.3
(11.7)
−8.0
(17.6)
−3.5
(25.7)
1.4
(34.5)
5.2
(41.4)
8.5
(47.3)
10.6
(51.1)
10.1
(50.2)
6.9
(44.4)
1.2
(34.2)
−5.5
(22.1)
−10.4
(13.3)
0.4
(32.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −20.5
(−4.9)
−16.8
(1.8)
−11.1
(12.0)
−5.7
(21.7)
−1.0
(30.2)
3.2
(37.8)
5.0
(41.0)
4.3
(39.7)
1.6
(34.9)
−4.2
(24.4)
−12.7
(9.1)
−19.2
(−2.6)
−6.4
(20.4)
Record low °C (°F) −33.1
(−27.6)
−31.9
(−25.4)
−29.1
(−20.4)
−20.0
(−4.0)
−12.8
(9.0)
−6.0
(21.2)
−4.0
(24.8)
−5.5
(22.1)
−7.5
(18.5)
−17.8
(0.0)
−26.6
(−15.9)
−33.1
(−27.6)
−33.1
(−27.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 3.2
(0.13)
4.6
(0.18)
9.1
(0.36)
20.5
(0.81)
62.0
(2.44)
98.9
(3.89)
118.2
(4.65)
100
(3.9)
77.9
(3.07)
30.8
(1.21)
4.4
(0.17)
1.4
(0.06)
531
(20.87)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 4.1 5.5 8.2 10.7 17.4 20.2 20.2 18.4 18.0 13.3 3.8 2.2 142
Average snowy days 6.9 8.8 12.1 13.9 11.8 2.4 1.0 0.4 3.9 13.1 5.7 4.1 84.1
Average relative humidity (%) 51 50 51 55 63 69 72 72 72 66 57 50 61
Mean monthly sunshine hours 219.7 202.6 232.2 234.4 217.5 180.6 197.4 205.5 179.6 210.8 233.5 227.4 2,541.2
Percent possible sunshine 70 65 62 60 50 42 45 50 49 61 76 75 59
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.