Xiangcheng_County,_Sichuan
Xiangcheng County, Sichuan
County in Sichuan, China
Xiangcheng County or Qagchêng (Chinese: 乡城县; Tibetan: ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་།) is a county in the west of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Yunnan province to the south. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
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Quick Facts 乡城县 · ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་།Qagchêng, Country ...
Xiangcheng County
乡城县 · ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་། Qagchêng | |
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.png) Location of Xiangcheng County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Xiangcheng Location of the seat in Sichuan Show map of Sichuan Xiangcheng Xiangcheng (China) Show map of China | |
| Coordinates: 29.2825°N 99.6081°E / 29.2825; 99.6081 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Shambala |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,016 km2 (1,937 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 31,407 |
| • Density | 6.3/km2 (16/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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Quick Facts Chinese name, Simplified Chinese ...
| Xiangcheng County, Sichuan | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 乡城县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄉城縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Xiangcheng County is divided into 3 towns and 7 townships.
More information Name, Simplified Chinese ...
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Shambala Town (Xambala, Xiangbala) |
香巴拉镇 | Xiāngbālā Zhèn | ཤམ་བྷ་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sham bha la grong rdal | 513336100 | |
| Chêngdoi Town (Qingde) |
青德镇 | Qīngdé Zhèn | ཕྲེང་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phreng stod grong rdal | 513336101 | |
| Radag Town (Reda) |
热打镇 | Rèdǎ Zhèn | རྭ་རྟགས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rwa rtags grong rdal | 513336103 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Sakong Township (Shagong) |
沙贡乡 | Shāgòng Xiāng | ས་གོང་ཤང་། | sa gong shang | 513336201 | |
| Siwa Township (Shuiwa) |
水洼乡 | Shuǐwā Xiāng | བསིལ་བ་ཤང་། | bsil ba shang | 513336202 | |
| Ragwa Township (Ranwu) |
然乌乡 | Ránwū Xiāng | རག་ཝ་ཤང་། | rag wa shang | 513336205 | |
| Dongsum Township (Dongsong) |
洞松乡 | Dòngsōng Xiāng | གདོང་གསུམ་ཤང་། | gdong gsum shang | 513336206 | |
| Dêmo Township (Dingbo) |
定波乡 | Dìngbō Xiāng | བདེ་མོ་ཤང་། | bde mo shang | 513336208 | |
| Zhodog Township (Zhengdou) |
正斗乡 | Zhèngdǒu Xiāng | སྒྲོ་མདོག་ཤང་། | sgro mdog shang | 513336209 | |
| Bayü Township (Baiyi) |
白依乡 | Báiyī Xiāng | དཔའ་ཡུལ་ཤང་། | dpa' yul shang | 513336210 | |
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More information Climate data for Xiangcheng, elevation 2,844 m (9,331 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010), Month ...
| Climate data for Xiangcheng, elevation 2,844 m (9,331 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) | 22.0 (71.6) |
22.7 (72.9) |
27.4 (81.3) |
29.7 (85.5) |
30.5 (86.9) |
32.5 (90.5) |
34.4 (93.9) |
31.8 (89.2) |
31.0 (87.8) |
27.3 (81.1) |
23.5 (74.3) |
20.6 (69.1) |
34.4 (93.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) |
14.1 (57.4) |
16.6 (61.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
23.1 (73.6) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.5 (76.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
22.9 (73.2) |
20.4 (68.7) |
16.6 (61.9) |
13.3 (55.9) |
19.4 (66.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) |
5.1 (41.2) |
8.1 (46.6) |
11.5 (52.7) |
15.6 (60.1) |
18.6 (65.5) |
17.7 (63.9) |
16.9 (62.4) |
15.6 (60.1) |
11.8 (53.2) |
6.7 (44.1) |
3.0 (37.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.3 (22.5) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
0.4 (32.7) |
4.2 (39.6) |
8.4 (47.1) |
12.3 (54.1) |
13.1 (55.6) |
12.5 (54.5) |
10.7 (51.3) |
5.0 (41.0) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
4.4 (39.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −14.4 (6.1) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−6.3 (20.7) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
3.6 (38.5) |
5.1 (41.2) |
5.6 (42.1) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−8.3 (17.1) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−14.4 (6.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.6 (0.06) |
1.4 (0.06) |
5.9 (0.23) |
11.0 (0.43) |
26.5 (1.04) |
73.8 (2.91) |
159.9 (6.30) |
130.4 (5.13) |
69.2 (2.72) |
15.3 (0.60) |
2.6 (0.10) |
0.5 (0.02) |
498.1 (19.6) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.3 | 1.6 | 4.0 | 7.2 | 9.1 | 14.7 | 22.3 | 21.1 | 14.0 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 102.9 |
| Average snowy days | 2.4 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 10.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 34 | 34 | 39 | 44 | 47 | 56 | 70 | 73 | 69 | 56 | 43 | 36 | 50 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 200.5 | 184.3 | 202.2 | 196.7 | 203.5 | 176.3 | 140.7 | 145.2 | 140.3 | 176.2 | 189.5 | 204.7 | 2,160.1 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 61 | 58 | 54 | 51 | 48 | 42 | 33 | 36 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 64 | 50 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
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- NH 47-11 (Taocheng)
- NH 47-15 (Tejung)
- "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.
- 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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