Tianjun County
天峻县 · ᠲᠢᠶᠡᠨ ᠵᠢᠶᠦ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠠ· ཐེམ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Têmqên
County
Location of Tianjun County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of Tianjun County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Tianjun is located in Qinghai
Tianjun
Tianjun
Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Coordinates: 37°55′N 98°39′E / 37.917°N 98.650°E / 37.917; 98.650
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHaixi
County seatXinyuan
Area
 • Total25,989 km2 (10,034 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total23,203
 • Density0.89/km2 (2.3/sq mi)
 [1]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.tianjun.gov.cn
Tianjun County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese天峻县
Traditional Chinese天峻縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཐེམ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠲᠢᠶᠡᠨ ᠵᠢᠶᠦ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠠ

Tianjun County, in Tibetan Themchen, is a county of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu Province to the north. It is under the administration of the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The county seat in Xinyuan Town.

Climate

Climate data for Tianjun (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −3.6
(25.5) 		−0.4
(31.3) 		4.0
(39.2) 		9.4
(48.9) 		12.9
(55.2) 		15.5
(59.9) 		17.7
(63.9) 		17.5
(63.5) 		14.0
(57.2) 		8.5
(47.3) 		2.6
(36.7) 		−2.0
(28.4) 		8.0
(46.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) −12.9
(8.8) 		−9.7
(14.5) 		−4.9
(23.2) 		1.2
(34.2) 		5.3
(41.5) 		8.8
(47.8) 		11.1
(52.0) 		10.6
(51.1) 		6.5
(43.7) 		−0.2
(31.6) 		−6.6
(20.1) 		−11.1
(12.0) 		−0.2
(31.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −20.7
(−5.3) 		−17.7
(0.1) 		−12.7
(9.1) 		−6.6
(20.1) 		−1.8
(28.8) 		2.7
(36.9) 		5.4
(41.7) 		4.8
(40.6) 		0.9
(33.6) 		−6.8
(19.8) 		−13.7
(7.3) 		−18.3
(−0.9) 		−7.0
(19.3)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.4
(0.06) 		1.8
(0.07) 		6.4
(0.25) 		13.1
(0.52) 		47.7
(1.88) 		79.0
(3.11) 		96.7
(3.81) 		85.7
(3.37) 		44.2
(1.74) 		8.8
(0.35) 		1.5
(0.06) 		0.4
(0.02) 		386.7
(15.24)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 2.1 2.2 4.3 6.8 11.3 16.5 18.4 17.0 11.5 3.9 1.4 0.8 96.2
Average snowy days 3.2 3.8 6.6 8.4 8.4 2.5 0.8 0.7 2.0 4.3 2.2 1.5 44.4
Average relative humidity (%) 39 37 37 42 55 65 70 70 67 51 37 36 51
Mean monthly sunshine hours 240.6 232.8 263.8 266.4 258.8 226.9 233.6 229.9 220.4 262.2 249.5 242.2 2,927.1
Percent possible sunshine 78 75 70 67 59 52 53 55 60 77 83 82 68
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Administrative divisions

Tianjun County is divided into 3 towns and 7 townships.

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Mongolian (traditional script) Mongolian (Cyrillic) Administrative division code
Towns
Xinyuan Town
(Xêyoin) 		新源镇 Xīnyuán Zhèn ཤེས་ཡོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། shes yon grong rdal 632823100
Muri Town
(Muli, Mêri) 		木里镇 Mùlǐ Zhèn མེ་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། me ri grong rdal 632823101
Jianghe Town
(Jongqu) 		江河镇 Jiānghé Zhèn ཅོང་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། cong chu grong rdal 632823102
Townships
Karmar Township
(Kuai'erma) 		快尔玛乡 Kuài'ěrmǎ Xiāng མཁར་དམར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། mkhar dmar yul tsho 632823200
Zhugkyung Township
(Zhouqun) 		舟群乡 Zhōuqún Xiāng འབྲུག་ཁྱུང་ཤང་། 'brug khyung shang 632823201
Chagmar Township
(Zhihema) 		织合玛乡 Zhīhémǎ Xiāng བྲག་དམར་ཤང་། brag dmar shang 632823202
Sur Township
(Suru, Suli) 		苏里乡 Sūlǐ Xiāng སུ་རུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། su ru yul tsho 632823203
Sênggê Township
(Sengge, Shengge) 		生格乡 Shēnggé Xiāng སེང་གེ་ཤང་། seng ge shang 632823204
Yangkêng Township
(Yangkang) 		阳康乡 Yángkāng Xiāng གཡང་ཁེངས་ཤང་། g.yang khengs shang 632823205
Lungmar Township
(Longmen) 		龙门乡 Lóngmén Xiāng ལུང་དམར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། lung dmar yul tsho 632823206

Economy

The county is served by the Qinghai–Tibet Railway; its Tianjun railway station is located near the county seat, Xinyuan Town.

Large coalfields are worked near Muli Town in the northern part of the county, at the elevation around 4,000 m above the sea level.[4] The Muli coal fields are connected with the Ha'ergai railway station on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway by a 195 km (121 mi) long branch railway, whose two sections are known as the Tsaidar Railway (柴达尔铁路) and the Tsaidar-Muli Railway (柴木铁路).

References

  1. ^ "海西州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——各市县、行委常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Haixi Prefecture. 2021-07-02.
  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.
  4. ^ The Muli Coal Mine of Qinghai Kingho Group
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