Lhorong County (Tibetan: ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 洛隆县) is a county of Chamdo in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county covers an area of 8,108 km2 (3,131 sq mi) and has a population of around 40,000 as of 2003. The word Lhorong means "valley in the south" or "river in the south" in Tibetan.

Lhorong County
洛隆县ལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་།
Himalayan blue sheep
Location of Lhorong County within Tibet
Location of Lhorong County within Tibet
Lhorong County is located in Tibet
Lhorong County
Lhorong County
Location in Tibet
Lhorong County is located in China
Lhorong County
Lhorong County
Lhorong County (China)
Coordinates: 30°42′N 96°9′E / 30.700°N 96.150°E / 30.700; 96.150
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityChamdo
County seatDzito (Lhorong)
Area
 • Total8,060.36 km2 (3,112.12 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total53,185
 • Density6.6/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websiteluolong.changdu.gov.cn
Lhorong County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese洛隆县
Traditional Chinese洛隆縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanལྷོ་རོང་རྫོང་།

Geography and climate edit

 

Lhorong County is located in the northeast of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and contains some 100 kilometres of the Nu River (Salween River). The Nu River flows through Tibet into Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous County of Yunnan Province. It later flows through Lushui County and into Burma, eventually into the Indian Ocean. Lhorong County lies to the south-west of the Qamdo Prefecture. Banbar County lies to the northwest, Baxoi County lies across the river to the east, Banbar County to the west, Dêngqên County to the north, and Riwoqê County to the northeast. From east to west the county is 127 kilometers and from north to south the greatest distance of is 105 kilometres.[citation needed] A county has a total area of 8048.4 square kikometres. The total population is around 36,000 people (1999), with estimates in 2003 being around 40,000.[citation needed] Other rivers of Lhorong County include the Jalan Song, Maqu, and the Zhuoma Lang. The county also contains numerous small lakes which the locals compare to 21 fairies.[2]

The county has a temperate semi-arid plateau monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 5.1 °C, the maximum air temperature (in July) being 14.5 °C. The annual extreme minimum temperature is -10.1 °C and annual mean maximum temperature is 31.2 °C.[citation needed] The country experiences 2,500 hours of sunshine annually on average, with a frost-free period of 120 days or so. The annual average rainfall is 439.7 millimeters, with much rain in August. Annual average relative humidity is around 50-55%.[citation needed]

Climate data for Lhorong (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 19.6
(67.3)
17.0
(62.6)
19.1
(66.4)
20.8
(69.4)
25.6
(78.1)
27.3
(81.1)
30.6
(87.1)
28.8
(83.8)
27.4
(81.3)
22.7
(72.9)
18.7
(65.7)
16.5
(61.7)
30.6
(87.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 5.1
(41.2)
6.7
(44.1)
9.6
(49.3)
13.2
(55.8)
17.1
(62.8)
20.7
(69.3)
22.3
(72.1)
22.0
(71.6)
20.0
(68.0)
14.5
(58.1)
9.9
(49.8)
6.7
(44.1)
14.0
(57.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) −3.5
(25.7)
−1.0
(30.2)
2.2
(36.0)
5.6
(42.1)
9.8
(49.6)
13.6
(56.5)
15.0
(59.0)
14.3
(57.7)
12.2
(54.0)
6.8
(44.2)
1.2
(34.2)
−2.6
(27.3)
6.1
(43.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −10.9
(12.4)
−8.0
(17.6)
−4.1
(24.6)
−0.5
(31.1)
3.6
(38.5)
7.9
(46.2)
9.5
(49.1)
8.8
(47.8)
6.4
(43.5)
0.8
(33.4)
−5.8
(21.6)
−10.1
(13.8)
−0.2
(31.6)
Record low °C (°F) −22.1
(−7.8)
−20.6
(−5.1)
−18.1
(−0.6)
−10.0
(14.0)
−5.8
(21.6)
−0.6
(30.9)
0.6
(33.1)
0.3
(32.5)
−2.2
(28.0)
−9.3
(15.3)
−18.2
(−0.8)
−21.9
(−7.4)
−22.1
(−7.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.4
(0.09)
7.2
(0.28)
14.1
(0.56)
27.7
(1.09)
43.6
(1.72)
61.1
(2.41)
80.4
(3.17)
76.8
(3.02)
59.5
(2.34)
34.7
(1.37)
6.9
(0.27)
1.7
(0.07)
416.1
(16.39)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 2.0 4.5 8.0 11.3 11.8 13.9 16.8 16.4 13.2 8.5 4.4 2.1 112.9
Average snowy days 3.8 6.8 11.4 13.1 3.2 0.1 0 0.1 0.4 5.7 6.5 3.6 54.7
Average relative humidity (%) 42 43 48 52 52 57 61 62 60 56 49 43 52
Mean monthly sunshine hours 217.5 204.9 223.1 212.6 236.5 203.7 185.6 184.9 203.7 218.3 215.5 214.2 2,520.5
Percent possible sunshine 67 65 60 55 56 48 43 46 56 63 69 68 58
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]

Subdivisions edit

Lhorong County contains 4 towns and 7 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Dzito Town
(Lhorong)
孜托镇 Zītuō zhèn རྫི་ཐོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rdzi tho grong rdal
Xobando Town 硕督镇 Shuòdū zhèn ཤོ་པ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། sho pa mdo grong rdal
Khangsar Town 康沙镇 Kāngshā zhèn ཁང་གསར་གྲོང་རྡལ། khang gsar grong rdal
Marri Town 马利镇 Mǎlì zhèn དམར་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། dmar ri grong rdal
Townships
Dakrong Township 达龙乡 Dálóng xiāng གདགས་རོང་ཤང་། gdags rong shang
Shingrong Township 新荣乡 Xīnróng xiāng ཤིང་རོང་ཤང་། shing rong shang
Pedak Township 白达乡 Báidá xiāng པད་གདགས་ཤང་། pad gdags shang
Yülzhi Township 玉西乡 Yùxī xiāng ཡུལ་བཞི་ཤང་། yul bzhi shang
Nagchok Township 腊久乡 Làjiǔ xiāng ནག་ལྕོག་ཤང་། nag lcog shang
Ngülshö Township 俄西乡 Éxī xiāng རྔུལ་ཤོད་ཤང་། rngul shod shang
Kungye Sumdo Township 中亦乡 Zhōngyì xiāng ཀུང་ཡས་གསུམ་མདོ་ཤང་། kung yas gsum mdo shang

References edit

  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. ^ Tibet China: travel guide. 五洲传播出版社. 2003. p. 147. ISBN 7-5085-0374-0.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

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