Bole
博乐市 · بورتالا شەھىرى | |
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Sayram Lake | |
| Coordinates (Bole municipal government): 44°51′14″N 82°03′05″E / 44.8539°N 82.0514°ECoordinates: 44°51′14″N 82°03′05″E / 44.8539°N 82.0514°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Autonomous prefecture | Bortala (Mongol) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,801.68 km2 (3,012.25 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 662 m (2,172 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 106,400 |
| • Density | 14/km2 (35/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 833400 |
| Area code | 909 |
| Vehicle registration | 新E |
| Website | www |
| Bole, Xinjiang | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 博乐 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 博樂 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 博尔塔拉 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 博爾塔拉 | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯᠠ | ||||||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | بۆرتالا | ||||||||||
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Bole as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Bortala, is a county-level city in Xinjiang, China. The city covers an area of 7,517 square kilometres (2,902 sq mi) and as of 2003[update] had a total population of 403,700 (2003). Bortala means "brown grasslands/steppe" in Mongolian. Bortala is the seat of Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, which borders Kazakhstan. The Northern Xinjiang Railway runs through the city along with highways to Ürümqi.
Bole has a borderline cool arid climate (Köppen BWk) just short of a cool semi-arid climate (BSk). Like all of Xinjiang, Bole features very warm to hot summers and freezing to frigid winters. Precipitation, again common to all of Xinjiang outside the mountains, is very low and chiefly falls in summer.
| Climate data for Bole, Xinjiang (1981–2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | −9.6 (14.7) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
5.2 (41.4) |
17.9 (64.2) |
25.1 (77.2) |
30.0 (86.0) |
31.7 (89.1) |
30.2 (86.4) |
23.9 (75.0) |
14.6 (58.3) |
3.1 (37.6) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
13.3 (56.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −15.7 (3.7) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
11.1 (52.0) |
17.8 (64.0) |
22.3 (72.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
22.2 (72.0) |
16.5 (61.7) |
8.0 (46.4) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
6.8 (44.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −20.5 (−4.9) |
−16.7 (1.9) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
4.9 (40.8) |
11.1 (52.0) |
15.1 (59.2) |
16.5 (61.7) |
14.9 (58.8) |
9.6 (49.3) |
2.6 (36.7) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−15.1 (4.8) |
1.1 (33.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5.3 (0.21) |
6.8 (0.27) |
8.9 (0.35) |
19.4 (0.76) |
32.3 (1.27) |
28.9 (1.14) |
29.1 (1.15) |
18.7 (0.74) |
17.9 (0.70) |
15.5 (0.61) |
8.5 (0.33) |
8.9 (0.35) |
200.2 (7.88) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 81 | 80 | 73 | 55 | 52 | 52 | 56 | 56 | 59 | 67 | 79 | 83 | 66 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[1] | |||||||||||||
