Markam County
芒康县 • སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Markam County within Tibet
Location of Markam County within Tibet
Markam County is located in Tibet
Markam County
Markam County
Location in Tibet
Markam County is located in China
Markam County
Markam County
Markam County (China)
Coordinates: 30°34′35″N 98°58′29″E / 30.57639°N 98.97472°E / 30.57639; 98.97472
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityChamdo
County seatGartok
Area
 • Total11,576.21 km2 (4,469.60 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total79,001
 • Density6.8/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitemangkang.changdu.gov.cn
Markam County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese芒康县
Traditional Chinese芒康縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།

Markam County (Tibetan: སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 芒康县) is a county under the jurisdiction of the Chamdo in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the east and Yunnan to the south. It is the easternmost county-level division of the Tibet A.R.

Administrative divisions

Markam County is divided in 2 towns, 13 townships, and 1 ethnic township.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Gartok Town 嘎托镇 Gātuō zhèn སྒར་ཐོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། sgar thog grong rdal
Rongmé Town 如美镇 Rúměi zhèn རོང་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ། rong smad grong rdal
Townships
Zurdeshö Township 索多西乡 Suǒduōxī xiāng ཟུར་བདེ་ཤོད་ཤང་། zur bde shod shang
Bumpa Township 莽岭乡 Mǎnglǐng xiāng འབུམ་པ་ཤང་། 'bum pa shang
Tsangshö Township 宗西乡 Zōngxī xiāng གཙང་ཤོད་ཤང་། gtsang shod shang
Gardo Township 昂多乡 Ángduō xiāng མགར་མདོ་ཤང་། mgar mdo shang
Co'nga Township 措瓦乡 Cuòwǎ xiāng མཚོ་རྔ་ཤང་། mtsho rnga shang
Norné Township 洛尼乡 Luòní xiāng ནོར་གནས་ཤང་། nor gnas shang
Göpo Township 戈波乡 Gēbō xiāng རྒོད་པོ་ཤང་། rgod po shang
Pangda Township 帮达乡 Bāngdá xiāng སྤང་མདའ་ཤང་། spang mda' shang
Jidrong Township 徐中乡 Xúzhōng xiāng བྱིས་གྲོངས་ཤང་། byis grongs shang
Chörten Township 曲登乡 Qǔdēng xiāng མཆོད་རྟེན་ཤང་། mchod rten shang
Mokshö Township 木许乡 Mùxǔ xiāng རྨོག་ཤོད་ཤང་། rmog shod shang
Chupalung Township 朱巴龙乡 Zhūbālóng xiāng གྲུ་པ་ལུང་ཤང་། gru pa lung shang
Chutsenkha Township 曲孜卡乡 Qǔzīkǎ xiāng ཆུ་ཚན་ཁ་ཤང་། chu tshan kha shang
Ethnic township
Naxi Ethnic Township 纳西民族乡 Nàxī mínzúxiāng འཇང་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། 'jang mi rigs shang

Climate

Climate data for Markam (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 4.8
(40.6) 		6.3
(43.3) 		8.8
(47.8) 		11.9
(53.4) 		16.1
(61.0) 		19.1
(66.4) 		18.7
(65.7) 		18.3
(64.9) 		17.2
(63.0) 		13.6
(56.5) 		9.3
(48.7) 		6.4
(43.5) 		12.5
(54.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) −5.0
(23.0) 		−2.9
(26.8) 		0.4
(32.7) 		4.0
(39.2) 		8.3
(46.9) 		11.9
(53.4) 		12.2
(54.0) 		11.7
(53.1) 		9.9
(49.8) 		5.4
(41.7) 		−0.1
(31.8) 		−3.9
(25.0) 		4.3
(39.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −12.9
(8.8) 		−10.7
(12.7) 		−6.6
(20.1) 		−2.5
(27.5) 		1.6
(34.9) 		6.1
(43.0) 		7.8
(46.0) 		7.4
(45.3) 		5.1
(41.2) 		−0.7
(30.7) 		−7.0
(19.4) 		−11.6
(11.1) 		−2.0
(28.4)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.1
(0.04) 		3.6
(0.14) 		11.0
(0.43) 		22.7
(0.89) 		34.6
(1.36) 		94.7
(3.73) 		175.7
(6.92) 		152.5
(6.00) 		87.8
(3.46) 		17.6
(0.69) 		4.7
(0.19) 		1.6
(0.06) 		607.6
(23.91)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.9 3.0 5.5 9.5 9.9 16.5 21.2 20.7 14.8 6.0 2.8 1.5 113.3
Average snowy days 4.6 5.8 10.0 12.7 4.4 0.2 0 0 0.6 5.0 5.0 3.1 51.4
Average relative humidity (%) 46 47 52 56 57 64 72 74 72 63 54 47 59
Mean monthly sunshine hours 248.8 227.0 241.0 226.4 231.6 203.5 167.5 177.0 200.8 236.1 236.5 246.7 2,642.9
Percent possible sunshine 76 72 64 58 55 49 39 44 55 67 75 78 61
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Transportation

References

  1. ^ "昌都市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Chamdo. 2021-06-22.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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