Jiantang
Town in Yunnan, China
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Jiantang or Gyaitang (Gyälthang) is a town in northern Yunnan, seat of Shangri-La County and Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
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Jiantang
建塘镇 · རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྡལ། | |
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Historical center of Jiantang | |
  Jiantang | |
| Coordinates: 27°50′N 99°42′E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Prefecture | Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture |
| County | Shangri-La County |
| Elevation | 3,282 m (10,768 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
| Jiantang | |||||||
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| Chinese | 建塘 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རྒྱལ་ཐང། | ||||||
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Languages
Khams Tibetan and Southwestern Mandarin are the main languages spoken in the town. Selibu is a Mandarin–Tibetan mixed language spoken by approximately 900 ethnic Hui people in the town.[1]
Climate
Jiantang has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb) with little to no rainfall from November to April and moderate to heavy rainfall from May to October.
| Climate data for Jiantang | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.4 (45.3) |
7.9 (46.2) |
10.7 (51.3) |
13.5 (56.3) |
17.1 (62.8) |
18.3 (64.9) |
18.4 (65.1) |
18.1 (64.6) |
16.9 (62.4) |
14.6 (58.3) |
11.2 (52.2) |
8.6 (47.5) |
13.6 (56.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.3 (32.5) |
1.4 (34.5) |
4.2 (39.6) |
7.2 (45.0) |
11.1 (52.0) |
13.5 (56.3) |
14.1 (57.4) |
13.6 (56.5) |
12.3 (54.1) |
8.9 (48.0) |
4.4 (39.9) |
1.4 (34.5) |
7.7 (45.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.7 (19.9) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
1.0 (33.8) |
5.1 (41.2) |
8.7 (47.7) |
9.9 (49.8) |
9.2 (48.6) |
7.8 (46.0) |
3.3 (37.9) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
1.9 (35.4) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 5 (0.2) |
11 (0.4) |
22 (0.9) |
36 (1.4) |
59 (2.3) |
127 (5.0) |
194 (7.6) |
171 (6.7) |
102 (4.0) |
61 (2.4) |
13 (0.5) |
6 (0.2) |
807 (31.6) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[2] | |||||||||||||
