Maqên County
County in Qinghai, China
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Maqên or Maqin County is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Maqên County
玛沁县 · རྨ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། Maqin | |
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Peak Amne Machin, the highest peak of the mountain range of the same name | |
.png) Maqên County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Maqên Location of the county seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates (Maqên County government): 34°28′41″N 100°14′20″E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Golog |
| County seat | Dawo (Dawu) |
| Area | |
• Total | 13,400 km2 (5,200 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,700 m (12,100 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 58,117 |
| • Density | 4.34/km2 (11.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Maqên County | |||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 玛沁县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪沁縣 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||
| Tibetan | རྨ་ཆེན་རྫོང | ||||||||
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Name
The county is named for Anyê Maqên, the Tibetan name for a revered local mountain.[citation needed]
Administrative divisions
Maqên is divided into two towns and six townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Dawo Town (Dawu) |
大武镇 | Dàwǔ Zhèn | རྟ་བོ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rta bo grong brdal | 632621100 | |
| Ra'gya Town (Lajia) |
拉加镇 | Lājiā Zhèn | རྭ་རྒྱ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rwa rgya grong brdal | 632621101 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Dawo Township (Dawu) |
大武乡 | Dàwǔ Xiāng | རྟ་བོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rta bo yul tsho | 632621200 | |
| Domkog Township (Dongqinggou) |
东倾沟乡 | Dōngqīnggōu Xiāng | སྡོམ་ཁོག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | sdom khog yul tsho | 632621201 | |
| Kangri Township (Xueshan) |
雪山乡 | Xuěshān Xiāng | གངས་རི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gangs ri yul tsho | 632621202 | |
| Damai Township (Xiadawu) |
下大武乡 | Xiàdàwǔ Xiāng | རྟ་སྨད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rta smad yul tsho | 632621203 | |
| Yigxung Township (Youyun) |
优云乡 | Yōuyún Xiāng | དབྱིག་གཞུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dbyig gzhung yul tsho | 632621204 | |
| Tanglag Township (Dangluo) |
当洛乡 | Dāngluò Xiāng | དྭངས་ལག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dwangs lag yul tsho | 632621205 | |
Climate
Maqên County has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dwc) bordering on an alpine climate (ETH).
| Climate data for Maqên County, elevation 3,719 m (12,201 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) | 10.1 (50.2) |
12.8 (55.0) |
17.8 (64.0) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.5 (72.5) |
24.5 (76.1) |
26.3 (79.3) |
25.1 (77.2) |
25.2 (77.4) |
21.5 (70.7) |
12.8 (55.0) |
10.9 (51.6) |
26.3 (79.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.3 (31.5) |
2.1 (35.8) |
5.6 (42.1) |
9.9 (49.8) |
12.8 (55.0) |
15.0 (59.0) |
17.4 (63.3) |
17.5 (63.5) |
14.6 (58.3) |
9.3 (48.7) |
4.5 (40.1) |
0.8 (33.4) |
9.1 (48.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.3 (11.7) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
1.4 (34.5) |
5.2 (41.4) |
8.5 (47.3) |
10.6 (51.1) |
10.1 (50.2) |
6.9 (44.4) |
1.2 (34.2) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−10.4 (13.3) |
0.4 (32.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.5 (−4.9) |
−16.8 (1.8) |
−11.1 (12.0) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
3.2 (37.8) |
5.0 (41.0) |
4.3 (39.7) |
1.6 (34.9) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
−12.7 (9.1) |
−19.2 (−2.6) |
−6.4 (20.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −33.1 (−27.6) |
−31.9 (−25.4) |
−29.1 (−20.4) |
−20.0 (−4.0) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−17.8 (0.0) |
−26.6 (−15.9) |
−33.1 (−27.6) |
−33.1 (−27.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.2 (0.13) |
4.6 (0.18) |
9.1 (0.36) |
20.5 (0.81) |
62.0 (2.44) |
98.9 (3.89) |
118.2 (4.65) |
100 (3.9) |
77.9 (3.07) |
30.8 (1.21) |
4.4 (0.17) |
1.4 (0.06) |
531 (20.87) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.1 | 5.5 | 8.2 | 10.7 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 20.2 | 18.4 | 18.0 | 13.3 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 142 |
| Average snowy days | 6.9 | 8.8 | 12.1 | 13.9 | 11.8 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 13.1 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 84.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 51 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 63 | 69 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 57 | 50 | 61 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 219.7 | 202.6 | 232.2 | 234.4 | 217.5 | 180.6 | 197.4 | 205.5 | 179.6 | 210.8 | 233.5 | 227.4 | 2,541.2 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 70 | 65 | 62 | 60 | 50 | 42 | 45 | 50 | 49 | 61 | 76 | 75 | 59 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
