Li County
理县 · ལིས་རྫོང་། · Bez
Lixian
County
Bailong Waterfall in Bipenggou, Li County
Bailong Waterfall in Bipenggou, Li County
Li County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province
Li County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province
Li County is located in Sichuan
Li County
Li County
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Li County is located in China
Li County
Li County
Li County (China)
Coordinates (Li County government): 31°26′09″N 103°09′48″E / 31.4358°N 103.1633°E / 31.4358; 103.1633
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
County seatZhaxiling (Zagunao)
Area
 • Total4,318 km2 (1,667 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total36,926
 • Density8.6/km2 (22/sq mi)
 • Major nationalities
Tibetan - 53.43%
Qiang - 33.50%
Han - 12.46%
Hui - 0.41%
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.ablixian.gov.cn
Li County, Sichuan
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese理县
Traditional Chinese理縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanལིས་རྫོང་།
Qiang name
QiangBez

Li County or Lixian (Chinese: 理县; Tibetan: ལིས་རྫོང་།; Qiang: pauɕuq), formerly known as Lifan (理番), is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. China National Highway G317 and the Zhaxiling River run through the whole territory.[2]

On May 12, 2008, the area was affected by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Geography

Li County is located from 30°54′43″N 102°32′46″E / 30.91194°N 102.54611°E / 30.91194; 102.54611 (30.911944°, 102.546111°) to 31°12′12″N 103°30′30″E / 31.20333°N 103.50833°E / 31.20333; 103.50833 (31.203333°, 103.508333°).[2]

Climate

Climate data for Lixian (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 20.9
(69.6) 		30.4
(86.7) 		31.7
(89.1) 		32.0
(89.6) 		33.4
(92.1) 		34.6
(94.3) 		35.8
(96.4) 		34.4
(93.9) 		33.6
(92.5) 		27.6
(81.7) 		24.4
(75.9) 		19.5
(67.1) 		35.8
(96.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 6.8
(44.2) 		10.8
(51.4) 		15.4
(59.7) 		20.6
(69.1) 		23.1
(73.6) 		24.8
(76.6) 		27.3
(81.1) 		27.5
(81.5) 		23.2
(73.8) 		18.2
(64.8) 		13.4
(56.1) 		8.1
(46.6) 		18.3
(64.9)
Daily mean °C (°F) 1.0
(33.8) 		3.9
(39.0) 		8.1
(46.6) 		12.7
(54.9) 		15.8
(60.4) 		18.2
(64.8) 		20.6
(69.1) 		20.6
(69.1) 		17.1
(62.8) 		12.3
(54.1) 		7.2
(45.0) 		2.2
(36.0) 		11.6
(53.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −3.1
(26.4) 		−0.5
(31.1) 		3.3
(37.9) 		7.4
(45.3) 		10.8
(51.4) 		13.9
(57.0) 		16.1
(61.0) 		16.1
(61.0) 		13.3
(55.9) 		8.7
(47.7) 		3.2
(37.8) 		−1.8
(28.8) 		7.3
(45.1)
Record low °C (°F) −11.0
(12.2) 		−10.9
(12.4) 		−7.9
(17.8) 		−0.5
(31.1) 		3.2
(37.8) 		7.2
(45.0) 		9.3
(48.7) 		7.4
(45.3) 		5.2
(41.4) 		−0.2
(31.6) 		−5.3
(22.5) 		−12.1
(10.2) 		−12.1
(10.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 7.5
(0.30) 		12.4
(0.49) 		34.1
(1.34) 		62.2
(2.45) 		96.8
(3.81) 		108.1
(4.26) 		76.2
(3.00) 		68.8
(2.71) 		78.3
(3.08) 		63.2
(2.49) 		15.2
(0.60) 		4.1
(0.16) 		626.9
(24.69)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 6.8 8.3 13.0 16.9 19.6 21.0 17.0 15.0 16.8 16.4 7.3 3.9 162
Average snowy days 12.2 11.1 6.3 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 7.1 39.1
Average relative humidity (%) 62 61 62 63 67 73 72 69 73 73 69 64 67
Mean monthly sunshine hours 80.7 130.5 162.7 174.8 170.9 136.8 158.3 164.5 128.8 121.7 87.2 67.7 1,584.6
Percent possible sunshine 25 41 44 45 40 32 37 40 35 35 28 22 35
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]

Administrative divisions

Li County oversees 6 towns and 5 townships.[5][6][note 1]The county government is seated in the town of Zhaxiling.[7]

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Qiang Administrative division code
Towns
Zhaxiling Town
(Zagunao) 		杂谷脑镇 Zágǔnǎo Zhèn བཀྲ་ཤིས་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། bkra shis gling grong rdal Bawxiaen 513222100
Nyaglo Town
(Zagunao) 		米亚罗镇 Mǐyàluó Zhèn མྱག་ལོ་ཀྲེན། myag lo kren Miyalo 513222101
Gubrago Town
(Gu'ergou) 		古尔沟镇 Gǔ'ěrgōu Zhèn ཀུབ་ར་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། kub ra mgo grong rdal Guergeu 513222102
Xuecheng Town
(Xüchêng) 		薛城镇 Xuēchéng Zhèn ཞུའེ་ཁྲེང་ཀྲེན་། zhuve khreng kren 513222103
Taoping Town 桃坪镇 Táopíng Zhèn ཐའོ་ཕིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། thavo phing grong rdal Saqi 513222104
Putou Town
(Püdü) 		朴头镇 Pǔtóu Zhèn ཕུའི་འཏུའི་གྲོང་རྡལ། phuvi vtuvi grong rdal 513222105
Townships
Ganbao Township
(Gainpu) 		甘堡乡 Gānbǎo Xiāng ཀམ་ཕུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། kam phu yul tsho 513222202
Puxi Township
(Puqi) 		蒲溪乡 Púxī Xiāng ཕུའུ་ཆི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། phuvu chi yul tsho 513222203
Bodogxugo Township
(Shangmeng) 		上孟乡 Shàngmèng Xiāng འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཀོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། vbo tog shu ko yul tsho 513222204
Bodogxudo Township
(Xiameng) 		下孟乡 Xiàmèng Xiāng འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཏོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། vbo tog shu to yul tsho 513222205
Tonghua Township 通化乡 Tōnghuà Xiāng ཐོང་ཧྭ་ཞང་། thong hwa zhang 513222207

Demographics

As of 2018, Li County had a registered population of 43,375.[8] 11,706 of the county's population, or 27%, is urbanized.[8]

The county had a population of 42,494 in 1999.[9]

Ethnic groups

Li County Ethnic Composition (2018)[8]
Ethnicity Population Percentage
Tibetan 23,175 53.43%
Qiang 14,531 33.50%
Han 5,405 12.46%
Hui 179 0.41%
Other 85 0.20%

Transport

Notes

  1. ^ The former source (stats.gov.cn) indicates 6 towns and 7 townships as of the start of 2019, whereas the latter source (sc.gov.cn) documents a decree passed in December 2019 revoking 1 of the 7 townships, bringing the number down to 6.
  1. ^ "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
  2. ^ a b abazhou.gov.cn Archived 2008-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  5. ^ 2019年统计用区划代码. www.stats.gov.cn (in Chinese). 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  6. ^ 四川省人民政府关于同意阿坝州调整马尔康市等10个县（市）部分乡镇行政区划的批复（川府民政〔2019〕22号）. sc.gov.cn (in Chinese). 2019-12-20. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  7. ^ a b 理县概况地图. xzqh.org (in Chinese). 2015-12-17. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  8. ^ a b c 人口民族. Li County People's Government (in Chinese). 2019-11-27. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  9. ^ (in English) National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS

External links

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