Darlag County
达日县 · དར་ལག་རྫོང
Dari
Darlag County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Darlag County (light red) within Golog Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Darlag is located in Qinghai
Darlag
Darlag
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 33°24′N 99°20′E / 33.400°N 99.333°E / 33.400; 99.333
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureGolog
County seatGyümai
Area
  Total14,800 km2 (5,700 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
  Total40,197
  Density2.7/km2 (7.0/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.dari.gov.cn
Darlag County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese达日县
Traditional Chinese達日縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanདར་ལག་རྫོང

Darlag County (Tibetan: དར་ལག་རྫོང; Chinese: 达日县) is a county of southeastern Qinghai province, China, bordering Sichuan to the south and west. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The county seat is in the Town of Gyümai.

Geography and Climate

With an elevation of around 3,970 metres (13,020 ft), Darlag County has an alpine climate (Köppen ET), bordering on a subalpine climate (Köppen Dwc), with long, very cold winters, and short, rainy, cool summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from mid September to late May; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation, average highs are only below freezing from mid/late November thru early March. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 47% in June to 70% in November, the county seat receives 2,467 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −12.0 °C (10.4 °F) in January to 9.8 °C (49.6 °F) in July, while the annual mean is −0.53 °C (31.0 °F). Over 70% of the annual precipitation of 558 mm (22.0 in) is delivered from June to September.

Climate data for Darlag County (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 11.9
(53.4)
10.4
(50.7)
14.7
(58.5)
18.3
(64.9)
21.6
(70.9)
21.9
(71.4)
24.3
(75.7)
24.4
(75.9)
23.3
(73.9)
20.9
(69.6)
10.6
(51.1)
10.1
(50.2)
24.4
(75.9)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −2.4
(27.7)
0.1
(32.2)
3.4
(38.1)
7.7
(45.9)
11.3
(52.3)
14.1
(57.4)
16.6
(61.9)
16.5
(61.7)
13.6
(56.5)
7.7
(45.9)
2.6
(36.7)
−1.2
(29.8)
7.5
(45.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) −11.8
(10.8)
−8.4
(16.9)
−4.2
(24.4)
0.7
(33.3)
4.5
(40.1)
8.0
(46.4)
10.1
(50.2)
9.5
(49.1)
6.5
(43.7)
0.6
(33.1)
−5.9
(21.4)
−10.9
(12.4)
−0.1
(31.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −19.5
(−3.1)
−15.8
(3.6)
−10.4
(13.3)
−4.9
(23.2)
−0.7
(30.7)
3.3
(37.9)
5.0
(41.0)
4.2
(39.6)
1.7
(35.1)
−4.1
(24.6)
−12.2
(10.0)
−18.5
(−1.3)
−6.0
(21.2)
Record low °C (°F) −31.4
(−24.5)
−30.3
(−22.5)
−26.4
(−15.5)
−16.1
(3.0)
−10.8
(12.6)
−4.8
(23.4)
−3.4
(25.9)
−5.2
(22.6)
−7.8
(18.0)
−17.8
(0.0)
−25.5
(−13.9)
−34.0
(−29.2)
−34.0
(−29.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 6.8
(0.27)
8.3
(0.33)
16.3
(0.64)
28.8
(1.13)
66.7
(2.63)
112.6
(4.43)
113.0
(4.45)
96.3
(3.79)
80.5
(3.17)
34.2
(1.35)
5.8
(0.23)
3.4
(0.13)
572.7
(22.55)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 7.0 7.8 12.0 14.1 19.3 21.6 20.4 18.1 19.4 14.9 5.3 4.3 164.2
Average snowy days 8.8 10.3 14.8 16.2 15.6 3.7 0.8 0.8 4.9 14.6 7.1 6.2 103.8
Average relative humidity (%) 50 49 52 56 63 69 70 70 72 67 55 49 60
Mean monthly sunshine hours 192.3 178.9 209.8 225.5 214.0 186.5 216.3 216.1 189.1 198.8 208.1 203.5 2,438.9
Percent possible sunshine 61 57 56 57 49 43 50 53 52 57 68 66 56
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3][4]

Administrative divisions

Darlag is divided into 1 town and 9 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Town
Gyümai Town
(Jimai)
吉迈镇 Jímài Zhèn རྒྱུ་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ། rgyu smad grong rdal 632624100
Townships
Marzhing Township
(Manzhang)
满掌乡 Mǎnzhǎng Xiāng སྨར་འབྲིང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། smar 'bring yul tsho 632624200
Dêrnang Township
(De'ang)
德昂乡 Dé'áng Xiāng སྡེར་ནང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། sder nang yul tsho 632624201
Oisêr Township
(Wosai)
窝赛乡 Wōsài Xiāng འོད་ཟེར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། 'od zer yul tsho 632624202
Boiba Township
(Moba)
莫坝乡 Mòbà Xiāng འབོ་པ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། 'bo pa yul tsho 632624203
Boingor Doima Township
(Shanghongke)
上红科乡 Shànghóngkē Xiāng དཔོན་སྒོར་སྟོད་མ་ཞང་། dpon sgor stod ma zhang 632624204
Boingor Mangma Township
(Xiahongke)
下红科乡 Xiàhóngkē Xiāng དཔོན་སྐོར་སྨང་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། dpon sgor smang ma yul tsho 632624205
Zugzhün Township
(Jianshe)
建设乡 Jiànshè Xiāng འཛུགས་སྐྲུན་ཡུལ་ཚོ། 'dzugs skrun yul tsho 632624206
Sangrima Township
(Sangrima, Sangruma)
桑日麻乡 Sāngrìmá Xiāng གསང་རི་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། gsang ri ma yul tsho 632624207
Dagtog Township
(Tehetu)
特合土乡 Tèhétǔ Xiāng སྟག་ཐོག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། stag thog yul tsho 632624208

See also

References

  1. "果洛州第七次全国人口普查公报(第二号)——县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Hainan Prefecture. 2021-07-09.
  2. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集(1971-2000年). China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
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