Lhari County

County in Tibet, China
Lhari County
31°05′22″N 92°54′02″E / 31.08944°N 92.90056°E / 31.08944; 92.90056
CountryChina
Autonomous RegionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNagqu
County seatArza
Area
 • Total13,068.68 km2 (5,045.85 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total38,797
 • Density3.0/km2 (7.7/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.xzjial.gov.cn
Lhari County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese嘉黎县
Traditional Chinese嘉黎縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiālí Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylielha ri rdzong
Tibetan PinyinLhari Zong

Lhari County (Tibetan: ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 嘉黎县) is a small county within the prefecture-level city of Nagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

The 11th Dalai Lama was born in Lhari County, as were both of the rival candidates for the position of the current Panchen Lama.[2]

Administrative divisions

The county contains the following 2 towns and 8 townships:

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Arza Town 阿扎镇 Ãzhā zhèn ཨར་རྩ་གྲོང་རྡལ། ar rtsa grong rdal
Lhari Town 嘉黎镇 Jiālí zhèn ལྷ་རི་་གྲོང་རྡལ། lha ri grong rdal
Townships
Nyiwu Township
(Drongyül) 		尼屋乡 Níwū xiāng སྙིའུ་ཤང་། snyi'u shang
Dzabbel Township
(Zabbe) 		藏比乡 Zàngbǐ xiāng རྫབ་འབེལ་ཤང་། rdzab 'bel shang
Codoi Township 措多乡 Cuòduō xiāng ཚོ་སྟོད་ཤང་། tsho stod shang
Xarma Township 夏玛乡 Xiàmǎ xiāng ཤར་མ་ཤང་། shar ma shang
Lingti Township 林堤乡 Líndī xiāng གླིང་མཐིལ་ཤང་། gling mthil shang
Mitika Township
(Midikha, Cora, Tsora) 		麦地卡乡 Màidìkǎ xiāng སྨི་ཏི་ཁ་ཤང་། smi ti kha shang
Rongdoi Township
(Rongtö) 		绒多乡 Róngduō xiāng རོང་སྟོད་ཤང་། rong stod shang
Goqung Township
(Kochung) 		鸽群乡 Gēqún xiāng ཀོ་ཆུང་ཤང་། ko chung shang

Climate

Climate data for Lhari (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −1.1
(30.0) 		0.5
(32.9) 		3.1
(37.6) 		6.8
(44.2) 		10.8
(51.4) 		14.8
(58.6) 		16.1
(61.0) 		15.9
(60.6) 		13.9
(57.0) 		9.1
(48.4) 		4.0
(39.2) 		1.0
(33.8) 		7.9
(46.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) −10.1
(13.8) 		−7.9
(17.8) 		−4.2
(24.4) 		−0.3
(31.5) 		3.8
(38.8) 		7.7
(45.9) 		9.1
(48.4) 		8.6
(47.5) 		6.5
(43.7) 		1.6
(34.9) 		−4.8
(23.4) 		−8.6
(16.5) 		0.1
(32.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −17.9
(−0.2) 		−15.4
(4.3) 		−10.2
(13.6) 		−5.6
(21.9) 		−1.2
(29.8) 		2.7
(36.9) 		4.2
(39.6) 		3.8
(38.8) 		1.8
(35.2) 		−3.5
(25.7) 		−11.4
(11.5) 		−16.5
(2.3) 		−5.8
(21.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 7.5
(0.30) 		12.6
(0.50) 		24.1
(0.95) 		38.5
(1.52) 		83.0
(3.27) 		152.1
(5.99) 		153.6
(6.05) 		132.6
(5.22) 		111.2
(4.38) 		37.9
(1.49) 		11.3
(0.44) 		5.1
(0.20) 		769.5
(30.31)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 7.2 8.6 13.2 15.5 19.2 23.1 23.8 22.0 20.5 13.1 5.9 4.1 176.2
Average snowy days 11.6 12.8 18.2 20.4 20.7 6.9 1.2 1.5 6.7 16.8 9.4 8.0 134.2
Average relative humidity (%) 49 49 54 59 64 69 72 73 72 63 53 48 60
Mean monthly sunshine hours 209.1 196.0 218.4 214.7 224.0 190.8 174.1 181.7 187.8 228.5 227.9 219.2 2,472.2
Percent possible sunshine 65 62 58 55 53 45 41 45 51 66 72 70 57
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
  2. ^ Zhong, Zhang (1995-12-29). "Six-Year-Old Becomes The 11th Panchen Lama". China Tibet Information Center. Archived from the original on 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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