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Huangnan Prefecture
黄南州 · རྨ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
Malho
Autonomous prefecture
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
黄南藏族自治州 · རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་
Location of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai
Location of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture seatTongren County
Area
 • Total18,226 km2 (7,037 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total276,215
 • Density15/km2 (39/sq mi)
GDP[2]
 • TotalCN¥ 7.3 billion
US$ 1.2 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 27,181
US$ 4,364
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-QH-23

Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 黄南藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 黃南藏族自治州; pinyin: Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: rma lho bod rigs rang skyong khul) is an autonomous prefecture of Eastern Qinghai, China, bordering Gansu to the east. The prefecture has an area of 17,921 km2 (6,919 sq mi) and its seat is in Tongren County.

Demographics

According to the 2000 census, Huangnan has 214,642 inhabitants with a population density of 11.98 inhabitants/km2 (31.03 inhabitants/sq. mi.).[3]

Ethnic groups in Huangnan, 2000 census

Nationality Population Percentage
Tibetan 142,360 66.32%
Mongol 29,071 13.54%
Hui 16,411 7.65%
Han 16,194 7.54%
Tu/Monguor 8,445 3.93%
Salar 1,530 0.71%
Others 631 0.31%

Climate

Climate data for Tongren County (1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 15.1
(59.2) 		21.6
(70.9) 		27.0
(80.6) 		32.7
(90.9) 		30.9
(87.6) 		31.3
(88.3) 		35.0
(95.0) 		34.2
(93.6) 		32.5
(90.5) 		23.4
(74.1) 		19.8
(67.6) 		13.9
(57.0) 		35.0
(95.0)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 1.3
(34.3) 		4.8
(40.6) 		10.1
(50.2) 		15.7
(60.3) 		18.9
(66.0) 		21.3
(70.3) 		23.5
(74.3) 		23.4
(74.1) 		18.7
(65.7) 		13.6
(56.5) 		8.1
(46.6) 		2.7
(36.9) 		13.5
(56.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) −6.6
(20.1) 		−3.2
(26.2) 		2.0
(35.6) 		7.8
(46.0) 		11.9
(53.4) 		14.7
(58.5) 		16.7
(62.1) 		16.1
(61.0) 		12.0
(53.6) 		6.3
(43.3) 		0.1
(32.2) 		−5.1
(22.8) 		6.1
(42.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −12.2
(10.0) 		−9.2
(15.4) 		−3.9
(25.0) 		1.4
(34.5) 		5.8
(42.4) 		9.1
(48.4) 		11.2
(52.2) 		10.5
(50.9) 		7.4
(45.3) 		1.4
(34.5) 		−5.4
(22.3) 		−10.6
(12.9) 		0.5
(32.8)
Record low °C (°F) −22.6
(−8.7) 		−19.5
(−3.1) 		−15.0
(5.0) 		−9.3
(15.3) 		−3.7
(25.3) 		1.2
(34.2) 		4.3
(39.7) 		2.3
(36.1) 		−0.9
(30.4) 		−10.5
(13.1) 		−16.4
(2.5) 		−21.5
(−6.7) 		−22.6
(−8.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.5
(0.10) 		3.9
(0.15) 		11.0
(0.43) 		22.6
(0.89) 		58.0
(2.28) 		64.5
(2.54) 		80.4
(3.17) 		70.8
(2.79) 		65.1
(2.56) 		25.9
(1.02) 		3.1
(0.12) 		0.8
(0.03) 		408.6
(16.08)
Source: China Meteorological Administration[4]

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 4 county-level divisions: 1 county-level city, 2 counties and 1 autonomous county:

Map
Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Tibetan Pinyin 		Population
(2010 Census) 		Area (km2) Density
(/km2)
Tongren city 同仁市 Tóngrén shì Official: ཐུང་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
(རེབ་གོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། or རེ་སྐོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།) 		thung rin grong khyer
Tungrin Chongkyêr 		92,601 3,465 26.72
Jainca County
(Jianzha County) 		尖扎县 Jiānzhā Xiàn གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་། gcan tsha rdzong
Jainca Zong 		55,325 1,712 32.31
Zêkog County
(Zeku County) 		泽库县 Zékù Xiàn རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། rtse khog rdzong
Zêkog Zong 		69,416 6,494 10.68
Henan Mongol
Autonomous County 		河南蒙古族
自治县 		Hénán Měnggǔzú
Zìzhìxiàn 		རྨ་ལྷོ་སོག་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། rma lho sog rigs
rang skyong rdzong
Malho Sogrig
Ranggyong Zong 		39,374 6,250 6.29

Rongwo Monastery

Huangnan is home to Rongwo Monastery, a Gelug monastery initially established in 1341 in Amdo on the Rongwo River.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ 青海省统计局　青海省第七次全国人口普查领导小组办公室. "青海省第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）". 青海省统计局. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  2. ^ 青海省统计局、国家统计局青海调查总队 (August 2016). 《青海统计年鉴－2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7834-6. Archived from the original on 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  3. ^ Renming, Zhengfu (2023-04-24). "2022年黄南州国民经济和社会发展统计公报" [en:Huangnan Prefecture National Economic and Social Development Statistics Bulletin 2022]. en:Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture People's Government (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-03-22. 人口和人民生活:年末全州人口为281044人。全州出生人口4523人。
  4. ^ 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1981－2010年） (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
  5. ^ http://www.baronet4tibet.com/sange_shong_info/rongwu.html
  6. ^ Staff (6 February 2008). "Longwu Temple - garden of Tibetan Buddhism and Western Region". China Tour Guide. Archived from the original on 14 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-04.

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