Zoigê County

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Zoigê County or Ruo'ergai County (Tibetan: མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: mdzod dge rdzong, ZYPY: Zoigê Zong; Chinese: 若尔盖县; pinyin: Ruò'ěrgài Xiàn) is a county of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China, bordering Gansu to the north. It is the northernmost county of the province. It is part of the Tibetan traditional region of Amdo.

Zoigê County
若尔盖县 · མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་། · Zuxxjji
Ruo'ergai
Baozuo township in Zoigê County
Baozuo township in Zoigê County
Zoigê County (pink) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Zoigê County (pink) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Zoigê is located in Sichuan
Zoigê
Zoigê
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Zoigê is located in China
Zoigê
Zoigê
Zoigê (China)
Coordinates (Zoigê County Cultural Pavilion (若尔盖县文化馆)): 33°34′30″N 102°57′43″E / 33.575°N 102.962°E / 33.575; 102.962
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
County seatDagcagoin
Area
 • Total10,620 km2 (4,100 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total76,712
 • Density7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)
 • Major nationalities
Tibetan - 90.4%
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
624500
Area code0837
Websitewww.ruoergai.gov.cn
Zoigê County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese若尔盖县
Traditional Chinese若爾蓋縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanམཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།
Qiang name
QiangZuxxjji

It has an area of 10,620 km2 (4,100 sq mi) and a population of 69,900, 90.4% of which are Tibetan people.[2]

Geography

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Ruo'ergai County is found in the easternmost sections of the Tibetan Plateau. The county is primarily a highland basin made up of the Zoigê Marsh between the Min Mountains and Amne Machin. The western border of the county, shared with Maqu County in Gansu, is formed by the first major bend of the Yellow River where it changes course nearly 180 degrees and heads back towards Qinghai.

Climate

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Ruo'ergai has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc), featuring very cold nights even in summertime, and very cold winters with extreme diurnal temperature ranges. Snow can fall any time of the year and usually does not melt until summer due to repeated nightly freezing even when maxima are above 0 °C (32 °F). Therefore, access to Ruo'ergai is heavily restricted during the winter months from late October to early May. Sitting at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet, high-altitude sickness is another common problem for tourists.

Climate data for Ruo'ergai, elevation 3,441 m (11,289 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Record high °C (°F)13.6
(56.5)
15.5
(59.9)
18.9
(66.0)
23.5
(74.3)
23.3
(73.9)
25.3
(77.5)
25.2
(77.4)
25.6
(78.1)
25.6
(78.1)
22.6
(72.7)
16.2
(61.2)
13.4
(56.1)
25.6
(78.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)1.3
(34.3)
3.6
(38.5)
6.4
(43.5)
10.2
(50.4)
13.2
(55.8)
15.6
(60.1)
18.2
(64.8)
18.0
(64.4)
14.7
(58.5)
9.8
(49.6)
5.7
(42.3)
2.2
(36.0)
9.9
(49.9)
Daily mean °C (°F)−8.9
(16.0)
−5.8
(21.6)
−1.5
(29.3)
2.7
(36.9)
6.2
(43.2)
9.5
(49.1)
11.7
(53.1)
11.1
(52.0)
7.8
(46.0)
2.5
(36.5)
−3.1
(26.4)
−7.7
(18.1)
2.0
(35.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)−17.2
(1.0)
−13.5
(7.7)
−7.5
(18.5)
−3.1
(26.4)
0.5
(32.9)
4.4
(39.9)
6.1
(43.0)
5.4
(41.7)
2.9
(37.2)
−2.3
(27.9)
−9.1
(15.6)
−15.2
(4.6)
−4.1
(24.7)
Record low °C (°F)−33.6
(−28.5)
−31.8
(−25.2)
−26.0
(−14.8)
−17.2
(1.0)
−11.5
(11.3)
−6.6
(20.1)
−3.7
(25.3)
−5.6
(21.9)
−9.6
(14.7)
−15.5
(4.1)
−23.4
(−10.1)
−28.0
(−18.4)
−33.6
(−28.5)
Average precipitation mm (inches)5.6
(0.22)
9.7
(0.38)
20.3
(0.80)
35.5
(1.40)
82.7
(3.26)
104.8
(4.13)
124.9
(4.92)
109.9
(4.33)
103.1
(4.06)
55.8
(2.20)
10.1
(0.40)
3.4
(0.13)
665.8
(26.23)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)5.36.811.414.218.719.517.315.717.815.35.73.3151
Average snowy days7.39.115.014.39.01.30.20.32.112.88.04.984.3
Average relative humidity (%)54566165697375757774655767
Mean monthly sunshine hours213.6185.0208.1211.3205.8180.4219.6223.6175.0180.6217.0224.72,444.7
Percent possible sunshine67595654484251554852707356
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]
Source 2: Weather China[5]

Transport

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Administrative divisions

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Ruo'ergai County has 7 towns and 6 townships:[6]

NameSimplified ChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylieAdministrative division code
Towns
Dagcagoin Town
(Dazhasi)
达扎寺镇Dázhāsì Zhènསྟག་ཚ་དགོན་གྲོང་རྡལ།stag tsha dgon grong rdal513232100
Tanggor Town
(Tangke)
唐克镇Tángkè Zhènཐང་སྐོར་གྲོང་རྡལ།thang skor grong rdal513232101
Xagdom Town
(Hongxing)
红星镇Hóngxīng Zhènབཞག་སྡོམ་གྲོང་རྡལ།bzhag sdom grong rdal513232102
Qammê Town
(Xiaman)
辖曼镇Xiámàn Zhènབྱམས་མེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།byams me grong rdal513232103
Baigyi Town
(Baxi)
巴西镇Bāxī Zhènདཔལ་སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྡལ།dpal skyid grong rdal513232104
A'gyi Town
(Axi)
阿西镇Āxī Zhènཨ་སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྡལ།a skyid grong rdal513232105
Têwo Town
(Tiebu)
铁布镇Tiěbù Zhènཐེ་བོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།the bo grong rdal513232106
Townships
Mêqu Township
(Maixi)
麦溪乡Màixī Xiāngརྨེ་ཆུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།rme chu yul tsho513232205
Lingwa Township
(Nenwa)
嫩哇乡Nènwā Xiāngགླིང་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།gling ba yul tsho513232206
Zhingwa Township
(Zhanwa)
占哇乡Zhànwā Xiāngའབྲིང་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།'bring ba yul tsho513232210
Gyangca Township
(Jiangzha)
降扎乡Jiàngzhā Xiāngརྐྱང་ཚ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།rkyang tsha yul tsho513232211
Qoijê Township
(Qiuji)
求吉乡Qiújí Xiāngཆོས་རྗེ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།chos rje yul tsho513232214
Pabso Township
(Bobso, Baozuo)
包座乡Bāozuò Xiāngབབ་བཟོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།bab bzo yul tsho513232215

References

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  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. ^ "Profile of Zoigê County" (in Chinese). Official website of Ngawa Prefecture Government. Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  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. ^ 若尔盖 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  6. ^ 2022年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码:若尔盖县 (in Chinese (China)). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 2023-08-06.