Nyagqu County
雅江县 · ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།
Yajiang, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka
Location of Yajiang County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Location of Yajiang County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Yajiang is located in Sichuan
Yajiang
Yajiang
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Yajiang is located in China
Yajiang
Yajiang
Yajiang (China)
Coordinates: 30°01′55″N 101°00′50″E / 30.032°N 101.014°E / 30.032; 101.014
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureGarzê
County seatQuka Town (Hekou)
Area
  Total7,558 km2 (2,918 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
  Total51,162
  Density6.8/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.yajiang.gov.cn
Yajiang County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese雅江县
Traditional Chinese雅江縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།

Nyagqu County (Tibetan: ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: nyag chu rdzong, ZYPY: Nyagqu Zong, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka) or Yajiang County (Chinese: 雅江县; pinyin: Yǎjiāng Xiàn), named after Nyagchukha in Tibetan, is a county of the traditional Kham Region of eastern Tibet. It is currently under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the west of Sichuan Province, China.

Administrative divisions

Yajiang County is divided into 6 towns and 10 township.

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Quka Town
(Hekou)
河口镇 Hékǒu Zhèn ཆུ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། chu kha grong rdal 513325100
Garra Town
(Gala)
呷拉镇 Gālā Zhèn མགར་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། mgar ra grong rdal 513325101
Golog Town
(Xi'eluo)
西俄洛镇 Xī'éluò Zhèn མགོ་ལོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། mgo log grong rdal 513325102
Horlung Town
(Honglong)
红龙镇 Hónglóng Zhèn ཧོར་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། hor lung grong rdal 513325103
Malhaco Town
(Marlamco, Malangcuo)
麻郎措镇 Málángcuò Zhèn མ་ལྷ་མཚོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། ma lha mtsho grong rdal 513325104
Bosêrxoi Town
(Bosihe)
波斯河镇 Bōsīhé Zhèn སྤོ་སེར་ཤོད་གྲོང་རྡལ། spo ser shod grong rdal 513325105
Townships
Karringbo Township
(Bajiaolou)
八角楼乡 Bājiǎolóu Xiāng མཁར་རིང་པོ་ཤང་། mkhar ring po shang 513325201
Pugbarong Township
(Pubarong)
普巴绒乡 Pǔbāróng Xiāng ཕུགས་པ་རོང་ཤང་། phugs pa rong shang 513325202
Chongsum Township
(Zhusang)
祝桑乡 Zhùsāng Xiāng གྲོང་གསུམ་ཤང་། grong gsum shang 513325203
Mignor Township
(Milong)
米龙乡 Mǐlóng Xiāng མིག་ནོར་ཤང་། mig nor shang 513325204
Banyugrong Township
(Bayirong)
八衣绒乡 Bāyīróng Xiāng སྤ་སྨྱུག་རོང་ཤང་། spa smyug rong shang 513325205
Nyayüxab Township
(Yayihe)
牙衣河乡 Yáyīhé Xiāng ཉ་ཡུལ་ཞབས་ཤང་། nya yul zhabs shang 513325208
Dêca Township
(Decha)
德差乡 Déchā Xiāng སྡེ་ཚྭ་ཤང་། sde tshwa shang 513325211
Kogla Township
(Kela)
柯拉乡 Kēlā Xiāng ཁོག་ལ་ཤང་། khog la shang 513325213
Chuka Township
(Waduo)
瓦多乡 Wǎduō Xiāng གྲུ་ཁ་ཤང་། gru kha shang 513325214
Misang Township
(Murong)
木绒乡 Mùróng Xiāng མི་བཟང་ཤང་། mi bzang shang 513325215

Climate

Climate data for Yajiang (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 26.6
(79.9)
28.1
(82.6)
33.5
(92.3)
32.6
(90.7)
35.8
(96.4)
35.7
(96.3)
35.4
(95.7)
35.4
(95.7)
33.3
(91.9)
29.6
(85.3)
26.1
(79.0)
23.3
(73.9)
35.8
(96.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 13.8
(56.8)
16.9
(62.4)
19.3
(66.7)
22.0
(71.6)
25.3
(77.5)
26.5
(79.7)
26.6
(79.9)
26.7
(80.1)
24.4
(75.9)
21.1
(70.0)
16.6
(61.9)
13.1
(55.6)
21.0
(69.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) 2.3
(36.1)
5.9
(42.6)
9.3
(48.7)
12.4
(54.3)
15.7
(60.3)
17.4
(63.3)
17.8
(64.0)
17.6
(63.7)
15.3
(59.5)
11.2
(52.2)
5.7
(42.3)
1.4
(34.5)
11.0
(51.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −5.3
(22.5)
−2.3
(27.9)
1.5
(34.7)
5.1
(41.2)
8.7
(47.7)
12.0
(53.6)
13.0
(55.4)
12.8
(55.0)
10.7
(51.3)
5.5
(41.9)
−0.9
(30.4)
−5.1
(22.8)
4.6
(40.4)
Record low °C (°F) −13.4
(7.9)
−9.8
(14.4)
−6.7
(19.9)
−1.5
(29.3)
1.1
(34.0)
5.1
(41.2)
6.1
(43.0)
5.3
(41.5)
2.4
(36.3)
−2.4
(27.7)
−7.6
(18.3)
−13.9
(7.0)
−13.9
(7.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 0.6
(0.02)
2.3
(0.09)
13.3
(0.52)
38.8
(1.53)
74.4
(2.93)
165.0
(6.50)
173.1
(6.81)
146.0
(5.75)
135.1
(5.32)
39.2
(1.54)
8.0
(0.31)
1.5
(0.06)
797.3
(31.38)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 0.8 1.6 5.6 11.2 14.6 22.1 21.5 19.6 18.7 10.0 3.3 1.0 130
Average snowy days 1.7 1.7 1.3 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 1.1 6.7
Average relative humidity (%) 35 33 39 48 54 68 74 72 75 68 55 45 56
Mean monthly sunshine hours 117.6 156.8 176.5 172.2 188.8 161.9 156.5 167.0 154.0 171.0 143.0 86.9 1,852.2
Percent possible sunshine 36 50 47 44 45 39 37 41 42 49 45 28 42
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

References

  1. "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.
  2. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  3. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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