Mainling (Tibetan: སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།; Chinese: 米林市; pinyin: Mǐlín; ), formerly Mainling County, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Mainling
米林市སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Location of Mainling (red) within Nyingchi City (yellow) and Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Mainling (red) within Nyingchi City (yellow) and Tibet Autonomous Region
Mainling is located in Tibet
Mainling
Mainling
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Mainling is located in China
Mainling
Mainling
Mainling (China)
Coordinates: 29°36′00.00″N 94°12′07.20″E / 29.6000000°N 94.2020000°E / 29.6000000; 94.2020000
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNyingchi
Municipal seatMainling
Area
 • Total9,490 km2 (3,660 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total26,176
 • Density2.8/km2 (7.1/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.milin.gov.cn
Mainling
Chinese name
Chinese米林市
Tibetan name
Tibetanསྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།

Geography edit

Mainling is located in the central-west of the Nyingtri Prefecture, at the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and between the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains. It de jure covers an area of 9,490 square kilometres, including the area claimed but de facto under control of the Arunachal Pradesh, India. The average altitude is 3,700 metres above sea level.

Climate edit

Climate data for Mainling (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 19.1
(66.4)
19.4
(66.9)
22.3
(72.1)
24.1
(75.4)
25.8
(78.4)
27.9
(82.2)
29.7
(85.5)
27.8
(82.0)
27.9
(82.2)
24.6
(76.3)
19.1
(66.4)
16.7
(62.1)
29.7
(85.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 8.1
(46.6)
9.5
(49.1)
12.3
(54.1)
15.6
(60.1)
18.4
(65.1)
21.0
(69.8)
22.3
(72.1)
22.3
(72.1)
20.5
(68.9)
16.7
(62.1)
13.4
(56.1)
9.9
(49.8)
15.8
(60.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) 0.5
(32.9)
2.6
(36.7)
5.6
(42.1)
8.6
(47.5)
11.7
(53.1)
15.1
(59.2)
16.3
(61.3)
16.1
(61.0)
14.3
(57.7)
10.1
(50.2)
5.3
(41.5)
1.6
(34.9)
9.0
(48.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −4.9
(23.2)
−2.1
(28.2)
1.1
(34.0)
4.0
(39.2)
7.3
(45.1)
11.2
(52.2)
12.5
(54.5)
12.1
(53.8)
10.5
(50.9)
5.9
(42.6)
−0.3
(31.5)
−4.2
(24.4)
4.4
(40.0)
Record low °C (°F) −15.8
(3.6)
−12.1
(10.2)
−9.4
(15.1)
−6.0
(21.2)
−2.4
(27.7)
2.1
(35.8)
6.1
(43.0)
4.4
(39.9)
0.5
(32.9)
−6.9
(19.6)
−10.0
(14.0)
−14.5
(5.9)
−15.8
(3.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 4.8
(0.19)
10.9
(0.43)
31.4
(1.24)
57.0
(2.24)
85.7
(3.37)
121.0
(4.76)
143.4
(5.65)
116.4
(4.58)
84.5
(3.33)
39.1
(1.54)
4.6
(0.18)
2.6
(0.10)
701.4
(27.61)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 4.8 8.3 14.8 19.4 21.3 23.3 24.1 22.3 19.8 14.8 4.1 2.4 179.4
Average snowy days 11.0 13.4 7.9 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 1.9 6.6 41.9
Average relative humidity (%) 60 63 66 69 71 75 77 75 76 70 62 60 69
Mean monthly sunshine hours 159.4 126.8 134.8 133.5 130.5 104.4 114.3 124.9 113.3 138.9 168.3 178.8 1,627.9
Percent possible sunshine 49 40 36 34 31 25 27 31 31 40 53 56 38
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Economy edit

The mine resources of the city are gold dust, plaster, limestone, chromium and iron, etc.

The main economy style in Mainling is farming and forest industry. The main species of the trees are fir, spruce, pine, oak, and cypress, etc. The total cumulation volume of woods is 40 million cubic metres. The special fruit productions are apples, apple pears, walnuts and peaches.

Nyingchi Mainling Airport is located in Mainling.

Demography edit

In 1999 the city had a population of 17347 inhabitants.[4]

The city is home to the Lhoba people.

Administrative divisions edit

Mainling contains 3 towns, 4 townships, and 1 ethnic township.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Towns
Mainling Town 米林镇 Mǐlín zhèn སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། sman gling grong rdal
Pé Town 派镇 Pài zhèn ཕད་གྲོང་རྡལ། phad grong rdal
Orong Town 卧龙镇 Wòlóng zhèn ཨོ་རོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། o rong grong rdal
Townships
Tamnyen Township 丹娘乡 Dānniáng xiāng གཏམ་སྙན་ཤང་། gtan snyan shang
Tashi Rabten Township 扎西绕登乡 Zhāxīràodēng xiāng བཀྲིས་རབ་བརྟན་ཤང་། bkra shis rab brtan shang
Nelung Township 里龙乡 Lǐlóng xiāng གནས་ལུང་ཤང་། gnas lung shang
Chanak Township 羌纳乡 Qiāngnà xiāng ཆ་ནག་ཤང་། chu nag shang
Ethnic township
Naiyü Lhoba Ethnic Township 南伊珞巴族乡 Nányī Luòbāzú xiāng གནས་ཡུལ་ལྷོ་པ་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། gnas yul lho pa mi rigs shang

* includes areas claimed but currently under control of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Villages edit

References edit

  1. ^ "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  4. ^ National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS

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