Qumarlêb County
曲麻莱县 · ཆུ་དམར་ལེབ་རྫོང་། | |
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Coordinates: 34°08′N 95°48′E / 34.133°N 95.800°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Qinghai |
Autonomous prefecture | Yushu |
County seat | Yugê Town |
Area | |
• Total | 47,000 km2 (18,000 sq mi) |
Elevation | 4,191 m (13,750 ft) |
Population (2020)
[1] | |
• Total | 33,710 |
• Density | 0.72/km2 (1.9/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 ( China Standard) |
Postal code | 815500 |
Website |
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Qumarlêb County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 曲麻莱县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 曲麻萊縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ཆུ་དམར་ལེབ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Qumarlêb County ( Tibetan: ཆུ་དམར་ལེབ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 曲麻莱县) is a county in the northeast of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, south-central Qinghai province, China.
With an elevation of around 4,200 metres (14,000 ft), Qumarlêb County has an alpine climate ( Köppen ETH), with long, very cold winters, and short, cool and rainy summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from mid September to late May; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation, average highs are only below freezing from mid/late November until early March. Despite frequent rain during summer, when a majority of days sees rain, no month has less than 50 percent of possible sunshine; with monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 51 percent in June to 78 percent in November, the county seat receives 2,782 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −14.5 °C (5.9 °F) in January to 8.9 °C (48.0 °F) in July, while the annual mean is −2.13 °C (28.2 °F). Over three-fourths of the annual precipitation of 406 mm (16.0 in) is delivered from June to September.
Climate data for Qumarlêb (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 10.3 (50.5) |
9.9 (49.8) |
13.7 (56.7) |
16.8 (62.2) |
21.6 (70.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
24.9 (76.8) |
23.6 (74.5) |
20.8 (69.4) |
19.0 (66.2) |
8.4 (47.1) |
8.9 (48.0) |
24.9 (76.8) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −3.8 (25.2) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
2.7 (36.9) |
7.1 (44.8) |
10.7 (51.3) |
13.7 (56.7) |
16.4 (61.5) |
16.3 (61.3) |
12.8 (55.0) |
6.9 (44.4) |
1.3 (34.3) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
6.7 (44.1) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −12.8 (9.0) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
3.5 (38.3) |
7.2 (45.0) |
9.7 (49.5) |
9.3 (48.7) |
5.7 (42.3) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−12.1 (10.2) |
−1.2 (29.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.8 (−5.4) |
−17.6 (0.3) |
−13.0 (8.6) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−2.9 (26.8) |
1.8 (35.2) |
4.0 (39.2) |
3.4 (38.1) |
0.6 (33.1) |
−6.5 (20.3) |
−14.8 (5.4) |
−20.0 (−4.0) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | −34.2 (−29.6) |
−31.2 (−24.2) |
−27.1 (−16.8) |
−19.9 (−3.8) |
−14.9 (5.2) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−24.0 (−11.2) |
−28.4 (−19.1) |
−34.4 (−29.9) |
−34.4 (−29.9) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 4.4 (0.17) |
3.2 (0.13) |
7.8 (0.31) |
14.8 (0.58) |
39.4 (1.55) |
85.8 (3.38) |
96.6 (3.80) |
79.0 (3.11) |
71.3 (2.81) |
20.5 (0.81) |
3.6 (0.14) |
1.7 (0.07) |
428.1 (16.86) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.7 | 5.4 | 7.9 | 10.3 | 17.3 | 21.6 | 19.4 | 17.8 | 19.8 | 11.5 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 142.1 |
Average snowy days | 6.8 | 7.5 | 11.2 | 13.5 | 19.2 | 7.3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 7.9 | 13.6 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 100.4 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 39 | 42 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 66 | 66 | 70 | 61 | 49 | 42 | 54 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 205.4 | 190.9 | 219.9 | 234.9 | 232.6 | 203.3 | 232.7 | 225.1 | 206.0 | 233.7 | 230.8 | 224.1 | 2,639.4 |
Percent possible sunshine | 65 | 61 | 59 | 60 | 54 | 47 | 53 | 55 | 56 | 68 | 75 | 73 | 61 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration [2] [3] [4] |
Qumarlêb County is divided to 1 town and 5 townships. [5]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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Town | ||||||
Yugê Town (Yuegai) |
约改镇 | Yuēgǎi Zhèn | གཡུ་སྐེ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | g.yu ske grong brdal | 632726100 | |
Townships | ||||||
Bagoin Township (Bagan) |
巴干乡 | Bāgàn Xiāng | འབའ་དགོན་ཞང་། | 'ba' dgon zhang | 632726200 | |
Qigzhi Township (Qiuzhi) |
秋智乡 | Qiūzhì Xiāng | ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་ཞང་། | chig sgril zhang | 632726201 | |
Yugê Township (Yege) |
叶格乡 | Yègé Xiāng | གཡུ་སྐེ་ཞང་། | g.yu ske zhang | 632726202 | |
Madoi Township (Maduo) |
麻多乡 | Máduō Xiāng | རྨ་སྟོད་ཞང་། | rma stod zhang | 632726203 | |
Qumar Township (Qumahe) |
曲麻河乡 | Qǔmáhé Xiāng | ཆུ་དམར་ཞང་། | chu dmar zhang | 632726204 |