Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

34.98°N 102.91°E / 34.98; 102.91

Gannan Prefecture
甘南州 · ཀན་ལྷོ་ཁུལ།
Autonomous prefecture
Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
甘南藏族自治州 · ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།
Labrang Monastery, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Labrang Monastery, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Location of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Gansu
Location of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Gansu
CountryChina
ProvinceGansu
Prefecture SeatHezuo
Government
 • TypeAutonomous prefecture
 • CCP SecretaryYu Chenghui
 • Congress ChairmanTashi Cao
 • GovernorZhao Lingyun
 • CPPCC ChairmanRinchen Thondup
Area
 • Total40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total689,132
 • Density17/km2 (44/sq mi)
 • Major Ethnic Groups
Tibetan−51.44%
Han−41.75%
Hui−6.43%
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-GS-30
Websitewww.gn.gansu.gov.cn
Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese甘南藏族自治州
Simplified Chinese甘南藏族自治州
Tibetan name
Tibetanཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།


Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 甘南藏族自治州; pinyin: Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Kan-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, ZYPY: Gainlho Poirig Ranggyong Kü) is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China, bordering Linxia to the north, Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east and Aba (Sichuan province) to the south. It includes Xiahe and the Labrang Monastery, Luqu, Maqu and other mostly Tibetan towns and villages. Gannan has an area of 40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi) and its capital is Hezuo city (Zoi). In the first year of the proclamation of Gannan Autonomous District, the district-seat was at the Labrang Town of Sangqu.

Population

According to the 2010 census, Gannan has 689,132 inhabitants[1] (population density: 17.14 inhabitants per km2).

Ethnic groups in Gannan, 2000 census
Nationality Population Percentage
Tibetan 329,278 51.44%
Han 267,260 41.75%
Hui 41,163 6.43%
Tu 939 0.15%
Dongxiang 258 0.04%
Manchu 257 0.04%
Salar 222 0.03%
Mongols 215 0.03%
Others 514 0.09%

Transport

In the prefecture is high-way G213. In 2013, the Gannan Xiahe Airport was opened.

Subdivisions

1 county level city, 7 counties.

Map

Note: Lianhuashan National Nature Reserve is part of Lintan County.
Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Tibetan Pinyin		 Population
(2010 Census)		 Area (km2) Density
(/km2)
Hezuo City
(Zoi City)		 合作市 Hézuò Shì གཙོས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། gtsos grong khyer
Zoi Chongkyir		 90,290 2,670 33.81
Lintan County 临潭县 Líntán Xiàn ལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་། lin than rdzong
Lintain Zong		 137,001 1,557 87.99
Jonê County
(Zhuoni County)		 卓尼县 Zhuóní Xiàn ཅོ་ནེ་རྫོང་། co ne rdzong
Jonê Zong		 100,522 5,694 17.65
Zhouqu County
(Zhugqu County)		 舟曲县 Zhōuqū Xiàn འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། 'brug chu rdzong
Zhugqu Zong		 132,108 3,010 43.88
Têwo County
(Diebu County)		 迭部县 Diébù Xiàn ཐེ་བོ་རྫོང་། the bo rdzong
Têwo Zong		 52,166 5,108 10.21
Maqu County 玛曲县 Mǎqū Xiàn རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། rma chu rdzong
Maqu Zong		 54,745 10,190 6.72
Luqu County 碌曲县 Lùqū Xiàn ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། klu chu rdzong
Gluqu Zong		 35,630 5,298 6.72
Xiahe County
(Sangqu County)		 夏河县 Xiàhé Xiàn བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་། bsang chu rdzong
Sangqu Zong		 86,670 6,674 12.98

Climate

Gannan, as illustrated by this chart for Xiahe, has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) that grades into an alpine climate (ETH) at the highest elevations. The climate is characterised by mild, rainy summers and frigid, but dry and sunny, winters.

Climate data for Xiahe County
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 5
(41)		 7
(45)		 10
(50)		 13
(55)		 17
(63)		 21
(70)		 19
(66)		 17
(63)		 15
(59)		 9
(48)		 8
(46)		 5
(41)		 12
(54)
Average low °C (°F) −18
(0)		 −16
(3)		 −12
(10)		 −8
(18)		 −6
(21)		 −2
(28)		 3
(37)		 1
(34)		 −3
(27)		 −7
(19)		 −12
(10)		 −16
(3)		 −8
(18)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 6
(0.2)		 15
(0.6)		 14
(0.6)		 62
(2.4)		 101
(4.0)		 105
(4.1)		 174
(6.9)		 120
(4.7)		 139
(5.5)		 44
(1.7)		 9
(0.4)		 3
(0.1)		 792
(31.2)
Source: [2]

See also

References
  1. Census 2012 http://www.geohive.com/cntry/cn-62.aspx Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

Further reading
  • A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 2. The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
  • Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3
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