Zoigê County
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 | |
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 Baozuo township in Zoigê County | |
.png.webp) Zoigê County (pink) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Zoigê Location of the seat in Sichuan  Zoigê Zoigê (China) | |
| Coordinates (Zoigê County Cultural Pavilion (若尔盖县文化馆)): 33°34′30″N 102°57′43″E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| County seat | Dagcagoin |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10,620 km2 (4,100 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 76,712 |
| • Density | 7.2/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| • Major nationalities | Tibetan - 90.4% |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 624500 |
| Area code | 0837 |
| Website | www |
| Zoigê County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 若尔盖县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 若爾蓋縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Qiang name | |||||||
| Qiang | Zuxxjji | ||||||
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
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
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 (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| 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) |
| Average high °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) |
| Average low °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) | 5.3 | 6.8 | 11.4 | 14.2 | 18.7 | 19.5 | 17.3 | 15.7 | 17.8 | 15.3 | 5.7 | 3.3 | 151 |
| Average snowy days | 7.3 | 9.1 | 15.0 | 14.3 | 9.0 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 12.8 | 8.0 | 4.9 | 84.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 54 | 56 | 61 | 65 | 69 | 73 | 75 | 75 | 77 | 74 | 65 | 57 | 67 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 213.6 | 185.0 | 208.1 | 211.3 | 205.8 | 180.4 | 219.6 | 223.6 | 175.0 | 180.6 | 217.0 | 224.7 | 2,444.7 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 67 | 59 | 56 | 54 | 48 | 42 | 51 | 55 | 48 | 52 | 70 | 73 | 56 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China[5] | |||||||||||||
Transport
Administrative divisions
Ruo'ergai County has 7 towns and 6 townships:[6]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Dagcagoin Town (Dazhasi) |
达扎寺镇 | Dázhāsì Zhèn | སྟག་ཚ་དགོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stag tsha dgon grong rdal | 513232100 | |
| Tanggor Town (Tangke) |
唐克镇 | Tángkè Zhèn | ཐང་སྐོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thang skor grong rdal | 513232101 | |
| Xagdom Town (Hongxing) |
红星镇 | Hóngxīng Zhèn | བཞག་སྡོམ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bzhag sdom grong rdal | 513232102 | |
| Qammê Town (Xiaman) |
辖曼镇 | Xiámàn Zhèn | བྱམས་མེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | byams me grong rdal | 513232103 | |
| Baigyi Town (Baxi) |
巴西镇 | Bāxī Zhèn | དཔལ་སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dpal skyid grong rdal | 513232104 | |
| A'gyi Town (Axi) |
阿西镇 | Āxī Zhèn | ཨ་སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | a skyid grong rdal | 513232105 | |
| Têwo Town (Tiebu) |
铁布镇 | Tiěbù Zhèn | ཐེ་བོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | the bo grong rdal | 513232106 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Mêqu Township (Maixi) |
麦溪乡 | Màixī Xiāng | རྨེ་ཆུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rme chu yul tsho | 513232205 | |
| Lingwa Township (Nenwa) |
嫩哇乡 | Nènwā Xiāng | གླིང་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gling ba yul tsho | 513232206 | |
| Zhingwa Township (Zhanwa) |
占哇乡 | Zhànwā Xiāng | འབྲིང་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | 'bring ba yul tsho | 513232210 | |
| Gyangca Township (Jiangzha) |
降扎乡 | Jiàngzhā Xiāng | རྐྱང་ཚ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rkyang tsha yul tsho | 513232211 | |
| Qoijê Township (Qiuji) |
求吉乡 | Qiújí Xiāng | ཆོས་རྗེ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | chos rje yul tsho | 513232214 | |
| Pabso Township (Bobso, Baozuo) |
包座乡 | Bāozuò Xiāng | བབ་བཟོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | bab bzo yul tsho | 513232215 | |
References
- "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.
- "Profile of Zoigê County" (in Chinese). Official website of Ngawa Prefecture Government. Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- 若尔盖 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- 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.