Xinlong or Nyagrong County (Chinese: 新龙县; Tibetan: ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་།) is a county in the west of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Xinlong County
新龙县 · ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་། Nyagrong, Nyarong | |
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 Location of Xinlong County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Xinlong Location of the seat in Sichuan  Xinlong Xinlong (China) | |
| Coordinates: 30°56′20″N 100°18′40″E / 30.939°N 100.311°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Rinoi (Rulong) |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,570 km2 (3,310 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 45,698 |
| • Density | 5.3/km2 (14/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Xinlong County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新龙县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新龍縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Xinlong County is part of historical region of Nyarong.
Jazi (Nyarong Jazi Gon; Jazi Gon Sangngak Dechen Choling; gya bzi dgon, gya dgon, ja bzi dgon gsang sngags bde chen chos gling; Chinese: 甲孜寺; pinyin: Jiǎzī Sì) is a Nyingma monastery in Xilong County that was founded in 1866.[3][4] Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa (1901–1975) studied here as a young boy, before going to Tromge Monastery.[5]
Administrative divisions
editXinlong County is divided into 6 towns and 10 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Rinoi Town (Rinang, Rulong) |
如龙镇 | Rúlóng Zhèn | རི་བསྣོལ་ཀྲེན། | ri bsnol kren | 513329100 | |
| Lharima Town (Larima, Lagruma) |
拉日马镇 | Lārìmǎ Zhèn | ལྷ་རི་མ་ཀྲེན། | lha ri ma kren | 513329101 | |
| Dagin Town (Dagain, Dagai) |
大盖镇 | Dàgài Zhèn | བརྡ་ཀིན་ཀྲེན། | brda kin kren | 513329102 | |
| Tanggyi Town (Tongxiao) |
通宵镇 | Tōngxiāo Zhèn | ཐང་སྐྱིད་ཀྲེན། | thang skyid kren | 513329103 | |
| Sêr'oi Town (Sewei) |
色威镇 | Sèwēi Zhèn | གསེར་འོད་ཀྲེན། | gser 'od kren | 513329104 | |
| Yanglaxi Town (Youlaxi) |
尤拉西镇 | Yóulāxī Zhèn | གཡང་ལ་གཤིས་ཀྲེན། | g.yang la gshis kren | 513329105 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Sadoi Township (Shadui) |
沙堆乡 | Shāduī Xiāng | ས་སྟོད་ཤང་། | sa stod shang | 513329200 | |
| Ralang Township (Raolu) |
绕鲁乡 | Ràolǔ Xiāng | ར་ལངས་ཤང་། | ra langs shang | 513329203 | |
| Pangmai Township (Bangmai, Bomei) |
博美乡 | Bóměi Xiāng | བང་སྨད་ཤང་། | bang smad shang | 513329207 | |
| Zitogxi Township (Zituoxi) |
子拖西乡 | Zǐtuōxī Xiāng | རྩི་ཐོག་གཤིས་ཤང་། | rtsi thog gshis shang | 513329209 | |
| Baxi Township (Heping) |
和平乡 | Hépíng Xiāng | འབའ་གཤིས་ཤང་། | 'ba' gshis shang | 513329210 | |
| Norkog Township (Luogu) |
洛古乡 | Luógǔ Xiāng | ནོར་ཁོག་ཤང་། | nor khog shang | 513329211 | |
| Xanglongxi Township (Xionglongxi) |
雄龙西乡 | Xiónglóngxī Xiāng | ཤང་ལོང་གཤིས་ཤང་། | shang long gshis shang | 513329212 | |
| Mari Township | 麻日乡 | Márì Xiāng | མ་རིད་ཤང་། | ma rid shang | 513329213 | |
| Yangnü Township (Youyi) |
友谊乡 | Yǒuyì Xiāng | གཡང་ནུས་ཤང་། | g.yang nus shang | 513329215 | |
| Xindo Township (Yinduo) |
银多乡 | Yínduō Xiāng | བཞི་མདོ་ཤང་། | bzhi mdo shang | 513329217 | |
Climate
edit| Climate data for Xinlong, elevation 3,000 m (9,800 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 24.1 (75.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
29.1 (84.4) |
30.2 (86.4) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.6 (92.5) |
33.2 (91.8) |
33.0 (91.4) |
32.2 (90.0) |
28.5 (83.3) |
24.2 (75.6) |
21.4 (70.5) |
33.6 (92.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.5 (50.9) |
12.9 (55.2) |
15.5 (59.9) |
18.8 (65.8) |
22.2 (72.0) |
23.6 (74.5) |
23.9 (75.0) |
24.2 (75.6) |
22.2 (72.0) |
18.6 (65.5) |
14.7 (58.5) |
10.9 (51.6) |
18.2 (64.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.2 (29.8) |
1.7 (35.1) |
5.0 (41.0) |
8.6 (47.5) |
12.3 (54.1) |
14.5 (58.1) |
15.3 (59.5) |
15.0 (59.0) |
12.8 (55.0) |
8.4 (47.1) |
3.1 (37.6) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
7.9 (46.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −10.0 (14.0) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.1 (41.2) |
9.0 (48.2) |
10.3 (50.5) |
9.8 (49.6) |
7.6 (45.7) |
2.0 (35.6) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
0.9 (33.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.0 (−2.2) |
−16.0 (3.2) |
−13.8 (7.2) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
0.3 (32.5) |
3.0 (37.4) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−19.2 (−2.6) |
−19.2 (−2.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.2 (0.05) |
3.6 (0.14) |
11.4 (0.45) |
29.4 (1.16) |
63.1 (2.48) |
142.6 (5.61) |
142.8 (5.62) |
113.5 (4.47) |
105.1 (4.14) |
34.5 (1.36) |
4.5 (0.18) |
1.3 (0.05) |
653 (25.71) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.5 | 2.7 | 7.4 | 11.7 | 16.2 | 22.7 | 21.9 | 19.2 | 18.3 | 11.4 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 137.8 |
| Average snowy days | 3.3 | 5.3 | 7.8 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 27 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 36 | 37 | 44 | 50 | 57 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 65 | 49 | 40 | 55 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 165.6 | 148.2 | 161.3 | 170.2 | 181.8 | 158.1 | 155.1 | 160.3 | 153.4 | 164.2 | 167.2 | 164.6 | 1,950 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 51 | 47 | 43 | 44 | 43 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 47 | 53 | 52 | 45 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[6][7] | |||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
- ^ nyag rong rdzong. Buddhist Digital Information Center. Accessed August 6, 2017
- ^ "Jazi". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ "ja bzi dgon". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ Dorje, Sangngak (2013). "Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
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