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Jiulong County
九龙县 · བརྒྱད་ཟིལ་རྫོང་། · ꐳꇊꑤ
Gyaisi, Gyézil, Njilop
County
Jiulong County (red) in Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Jiulong County (red) in Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Jiulong is located in Sichuan
Jiulong
Jiulong
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Jiulong is located in China
Jiulong
Jiulong
Jiulong (China)
Coordinates (Jiulong County government): 29°00′01″N 101°30′26″E / 29.0003°N 101.5073°E / 29.0003; 101.5073
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureGarzê
County seatGor
Area
 • Total6,770 km2 (2,610 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total53,738
 • Density7.9/km2 (21/sq mi)
Websitewww.scjl.gov.cn
Jiulong County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese九龙县
Traditional Chinese九龍縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanབརྒྱད་ཟིལ་རྫོང་། / བརྒྱད་ཟུར་རྫོང་།
Yi name
Yiꐳꇊꑤ
Romanisation: nji lop xiep
Light green -Yi. Red -Tibetan.

Gyaisi County (Tibetan: བརྒྱད་ཟིལ། / བརྒྱད་ཟུར།, Wylie: brgyad zil / brgyad zur), also Jiulong County (Chinese: 九龙县); is a county located in southeastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China. With a population of 52 thousand, mainly Tibetans, Hans, and Yis.

Administrative divisions

Gyaisi County contains 9 towns, 4 townships, and 3 ethnic townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Yi Romanized Yi Administrative division code
Towns
Gor Town
(Ga'er) 		呷尔镇 Gā'ěr Zhèn སྒོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། sgor grong rdal 513324100
Yandai Town
(Yaindain) 		烟袋镇 Yāndài Zhèn ཡན་ཏན་ཀྲེན། yan tan kren 513324101
Sayag Town
(Sanya) 		三垭镇 Sānyā Zhèn ས་ཡག་གྲོང་རྡལ། sa yag grong rdal 513324102
Qêwalung Town
(Xuewalong) 		雪洼龙镇 Xuěwālóng Zhèn བྱེ་བ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། bye ba lung grong rdal 513324103
Mukyü Town
(Wanba) 		湾坝镇 Wānbà Zhèn མུ་ཁྱུད་གྲོང་རྡལ། mu khyud grong rdal 513324104
Tanggo Town
(Tanggu) 		汤古镇 Tānggǔ Zhèn ཐང་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། thang mgo grong rdal 513324105
Ulagqoin Town
(Wulaxi) 		乌拉溪镇 Wūlāxī Zhèn འུ་ལག་བྱོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'u lag byon grong rdal 513324106
Kardo Town
(Kuiduo) 		魁多镇 Kuíduō Zhèn འཁར་རྡོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'khar rdo grong rdal 513324107
Laqu Town
(Naiqu) 		乃渠镇 Nǎiqú Zhèn ལ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། la chu grong rdal 513324108
Townships
Sangngagrong Township
(Sanyanlong) 		三岩龙乡 Sānyánlóng Xiāng གསང་སྔགས་རོང་ཤང་། gsang sngags rong shang 513324202
Sangtoin Township
(Shangtuan) 		上团乡 Shàngtuán Xiāng སང་ཐོན་ཤང་། sang thon shang 513324203
Baworong Township
(Ba'obrong, Bawolung) 		八窝龙乡 Bāwōlóng Xiāng དཔའ་བོ་རོང་ཤང་། dpa' bo rong shang 513324204
Hurba Township
(Hongba) 		洪坝乡 Hóngbà Xiāng ཧུར་པ་ཤང་། hur pa shang 513324216
Ethnic townships
Zylur Yi Ethnic Township
(Zi'er) 		子耳彝族乡 Zǐ'ěr Yízú Xiāng ꊪꇓꆈꌠꑣ zy lur nuo su xie 513324209
Xuoji Yi Ethnic Township
(Xiaojin) 		小金彝族乡 Xiǎojīn Yízú Xiāng ꑦꏢꆈꌠꑣ xuo ji nuo su xie 513324212
Dolop Yi Ethnic Township
(Duoluo) 		朵洛彝族乡 Duǒluò Yízú Xiāng ꄏꇊꆈꌠꑣ do lop nuo su xie 513324213

Geography and climate

Due to its elevation, Jiulong County has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb), with strong monsoonal influences; winters are frosty and summers warm with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 1.6 °C (34.9 °F) in December and January to 15.3 °C (59.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 9.1 °C (48.4 °F). Over 75% of the annual precipitation of 922.5 mm (36.3 in) occurs from June through September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 32% in July to 58% in January, the county seat receives 1,983 hours of bright sunshine annually. Diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 14.2 °C (25.6 °F) annually.

Climate data for Jiulong (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 23.5
(74.3) 		25.3
(77.5) 		26.4
(79.5) 		28.0
(82.4) 		31.2
(88.2) 		31.7
(89.1) 		30.2
(86.4) 		29.3
(84.7) 		29.1
(84.4) 		25.1
(77.2) 		22.6
(72.7) 		20.5
(68.9) 		31.7
(89.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 12.2
(54.0) 		14.2
(57.6) 		16.9
(62.4) 		19.5
(67.1) 		21.4
(70.5) 		21.9
(71.4) 		21.8
(71.2) 		21.7
(71.1) 		20.0
(68.0) 		17.9
(64.2) 		15.0
(59.0) 		12.4
(54.3) 		17.9
(64.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) 1.8
(35.2) 		4.2
(39.6) 		7.2
(45.0) 		10.0
(50.0) 		13.1
(55.6) 		15.0
(59.0) 		15.4
(59.7) 		15.2
(59.4) 		13.7
(56.7) 		10.4
(50.7) 		5.4
(41.7) 		2.0
(35.6) 		9.5
(49.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −5.5
(22.1) 		−3.4
(25.9) 		−0.3
(31.5) 		2.9
(37.2) 		7.1
(44.8) 		10.7
(51.3) 		11.7
(53.1) 		11.4
(52.5) 		10.0
(50.0) 		5.9
(42.6) 		−0.6
(30.9) 		−4.7
(23.5) 		3.8
(38.8)
Record low °C (°F) −15.6
(3.9) 		−13.1
(8.4) 		−9.4
(15.1) 		−5.6
(21.9) 		−2.0
(28.4) 		2.6
(36.7) 		3.5
(38.3) 		2.5
(36.5) 		0.0
(32.0) 		−4.8
(23.4) 		−10.5
(13.1) 		−14.4
(6.1) 		−15.6
(3.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.8
(0.11) 		4.3
(0.17) 		20.3
(0.80) 		42.3
(1.67) 		86.7
(3.41) 		203.4
(8.01) 		190.0
(7.48) 		150.7
(5.93) 		149.5
(5.89) 		51.2
(2.02) 		12.0
(0.47) 		2.1
(0.08) 		915.3
(36.04)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 2.2 3.1 8.5 13.2 18.0 24.4 25.3 23.3 22.9 12.5 4.9 1.9 160.2
Average snowy days 5.5 6.1 4.9 1.6 0.3 0 0 0 0.1 0.4 2.4 3.5 24.8
Average relative humidity (%) 43 41 46 54 62 75 79 78 78 72 61 51 62
Mean monthly sunshine hours 186.0 176.0 189.0 185.6 181.9 145.3 132.1 134.5 133.0 163.1 176.1 183.7 1,986.3
Percent possible sunshine 57 55 51 48 43 35 31 33 36 46 55 58 46
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]
Source 2: Weather China[4]

References

  1. ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  4. ^ 九龙 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 28 November 2022.

External links

County-level divisions of Sichuan Province
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Authority control databases
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