Gar County
噶尔县 • སྒར་རྫོང་།
Senge Tsangpo, Gaer
County
PLA emblem on the hill near Shiquanhe
PLA emblem on the hill near Shiquanhe
Location of Gar County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Gar County within Tibet Autonomous Region
Gar is located in Ngari
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Gar
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Gar is located in Tibet
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Gar
Gar (Tibet)
Gar is located in China
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Gar (China)
Coordinates (Gar County government): 32°29′32″N 80°05′48″E / 32.4921°N 80.0966°E / 32.4921; 80.0966
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
PrefectureNgari
County seatSênggêkanbab (Shiquanhe, Gar)
Area
 • Total17,669.72 km2 (6,822.32 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total31,052
 • Density1.8/km2 (4.6/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitege.al.gov.cn
Gar County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese噶尔县
Traditional Chinese噶爾縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྒར་རྫོང་།

Gar County[a] (Tibetan: སྒར་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 噶尔县), formerly Senge Tsangpo County,[3] is a district (county) in the Ngari Prefecture[4] of the western Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The main town is Shiquanhe (Sênggêkanbab), also called "Gar", on account of being the county seat, and "Ali", on account of being the seat of Ngari Prefecture.[5][b]

Administrative divisions

Gar county is divided into 1 town and 4 townships:

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Sênggêkanbab Town
(Shiquanhe, Sênggêzangbo, Gar) 		狮泉河镇 Shīquánhé zhèn སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། seng ge kha 'bab grong rdal
Townships
Günsa Township 昆莎乡 Kūnshā xiāng དགུན་ས་ཤང་། dgun sa shang
Zoco Township 左左乡 Zuǒzuǒ xiāng གཙོ་ཚོ་ཤང་། gtso tsho shang
Moincêr Township 门士乡 Ménshì xiāng མོནམཚེར་ཤང་། mon mtsher shang
Zhaxigang Township 扎西岗乡 Zhāxīgǎng xiāng བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ཤང་། bkra shis sgang shang

Geography

Main rivers in the county include Sênggê Zangbo and Gar Zangbo.

Climate

Gar County has a cool arid climate (Köppen BWk) with the temperature characteristics of a subalpine climate (Dwc). Summers are comfortable to warm with fairly frequent light showers, whilst winters are long, frigid but exceedingly dry and clear.

Climate data for Shiquanhe (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 6.4
(43.5) 		9.5
(49.1) 		14.5
(58.1) 		15.7
(60.3) 		20.5
(68.9) 		25.2
(77.4) 		32.1
(89.8) 		26.4
(79.5) 		23.7
(74.7) 		16.7
(62.1) 		12.7
(54.9) 		7.1
(44.8) 		32.1
(89.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −4.0
(24.8) 		−1.8
(28.8) 		2.7
(36.9) 		8.1
(46.6) 		13.0
(55.4) 		18.5
(65.3) 		22.0
(71.6) 		20.8
(69.4) 		16.8
(62.2) 		8.8
(47.8) 		3.6
(38.5) 		−0.6
(30.9) 		9.0
(48.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) −11.7
(10.9) 		−9.0
(15.8) 		−4.4
(24.1) 		0.9
(33.6) 		5.7
(42.3) 		11.3
(52.3) 		15.0
(59.0) 		14.2
(57.6) 		9.9
(49.8) 		1.3
(34.3) 		−4.7
(23.5) 		−9.0
(15.8) 		1.6
(34.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −19.3
(−2.7) 		−16.6
(2.1) 		−12.3
(9.9) 		−7.0
(19.4) 		−2.0
(28.4) 		4.1
(39.4) 		8.5
(47.3) 		8.1
(46.6) 		2.8
(37.0) 		−7.0
(19.4) 		−13.0
(8.6) 		−17.1
(1.2) 		−5.9
(21.4)
Record low °C (°F) −36.6
(−33.9) 		−30.2
(−22.4) 		−25.3
(−13.5) 		−17.9
(−0.2) 		−11.2
(11.8) 		−6.6
(20.1) 		−0.6
(30.9) 		−0.4
(31.3) 		−10.0
(14.0) 		−17.0
(1.4) 		−23.5
(−10.3) 		−32.9
(−27.2) 		−36.6
(−33.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.6
(0.06) 		1.7
(0.07) 		1.1
(0.04) 		1.3
(0.05) 		2.9
(0.11) 		5.8
(0.23) 		22.9
(0.90) 		25.3
(1.00) 		5.5
(0.22) 		1.7
(0.07) 		0.2
(0.01) 		0.6
(0.02) 		70.6
(2.78)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.8 2.0 1.3 0.9 2.0 2.8 7.0 8.7 3.1 0.7 0.4 0.6 31.3
Average snowy days 3.9 4.3 3.6 3.5 4.8 2.1 0.1 0.3 1.0 1.4 1.0 1.6 27.6
Average relative humidity (%) 34 33 29 27 28 30 37 42 34 24 24 26 31
Mean monthly sunshine hours 250.1 241.3 299.1 304.9 332.8 333.6 309.9 289.9 299.7 311.1 274.7 262.6 3,509.7
Percent possible sunshine 78 77 80 78 77 78 72 71 82 90 88 85 80
Source: China Meteorological Administration[6][7][8]


Transport

Notes

  1. ^ An alternative spelling is Gaer County.[2]
  2. ^ "Ali" is a Chinese spelling for Ngari.

References

  1. ^ "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of Ngari Prefecture. 2021-06-10.
  2. ^ China's National Population in the 2000 Census. Publishing House of Minority Nationalities. 2003. ISBN 978-7-105-05425-1.
  3. ^ Dorje, Gyurme (1999), Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.), Bath: Footprint Handbooks, p. 355, ISBN 0-8442-2190-2 – via archive.org
  4. ^ "Scenery of Burang County in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet". Xinhua News Agency. 2020-12-08.
  5. ^ Buckley, M. (2012). Tibet. Bradt Guides. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 334. ISBN 978-1-84162-382-5.
  6. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  7. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  8. ^ "55228: Shiquanhe (China)". ogimet.com. OGIMET. 27 March 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2022.

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