Garzê County
Garzê County
甘孜县 • དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་། Kardze, Ganzi | |
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 View of Garzê Town | |
.png) Location of Garzê County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Garzê County Location of the seat in Sichuan  Garzê County Garzê County (China) | |
| Coordinates: 31°37′23″N 100°00′04″E / 31.623°N 100.001°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Garzê Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,364 km2 (2,843 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 5,688 m (18,661 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 3,325 m (10,909 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 72,698 |
| • Density | 9.9/km2 (26/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 624000 |
| Website | www |
| Garzê County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘孜县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 甘孜縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Garzê County or Kardze County[2] (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།, Wylie: dkar mdzes rdzong), called Ganzi County in Chinese (Chinese: 甘孜县; pinyin: Gānzī xiàn), is one of the 18 subdivisions of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in northwestern Sichuan province, China. The Yalong River passes just south of the town Garzê, also known as Ganzi, the capital town of the county, which has some 16,920 inhabitants (2010),[3] many of them ethnic Tibetans, and is famous for its Tibetan lamasery. Historically, it is part of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham and now defunct province of Xikang (or Sikang). It lies on the northern section of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway.
Geography and climate
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Due to its elevation, Garzê County has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb) and subarctic climate, with cold but very dry winters, and warm summers with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −3.9 °C (25.0 °F) in January to 14.2 °C (57.6 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 5.93 °C (42.7 °F). Over two-thirds of the annual precipitation of 646 mm (25.4 in) occurs from June thru September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 49% in July to 74% in November and December, the county seat receives abundant, outside of summer, sunshine, totalling 2,620 hours annually. The diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 14.5 °C (26.1 °F) annually.
| Climate data for Garzê County, elevation 3,394 m (11,135 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.7 (69.3) |
20.6 (69.1) |
25.3 (77.5) |
27.0 (80.6) |
28.9 (84.0) |
30.5 (86.9) |
29.7 (85.5) |
30.7 (87.3) |
28.0 (82.4) |
25.9 (78.6) |
21.3 (70.3) |
18.2 (64.8) |
30.7 (87.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) |
8.7 (47.7) |
11.6 (52.9) |
15.1 (59.2) |
18.7 (65.7) |
20.5 (68.9) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.8 (71.2) |
19.8 (67.6) |
15.1 (59.2) |
10.6 (51.1) |
6.9 (44.4) |
14.7 (58.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.5 (25.7) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
3.2 (37.8) |
6.9 (44.4) |
10.9 (51.6) |
13.4 (56.1) |
14.5 (58.1) |
14.2 (57.6) |
11.8 (53.2) |
6.9 (44.4) |
0.9 (33.6) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
6.3 (43.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −10.5 (13.1) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
0.3 (32.5) |
4.5 (40.1) |
8.1 (46.6) |
9.3 (48.7) |
8.8 (47.8) |
6.7 (44.1) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
−10.0 (14.0) |
0.2 (32.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −26.5 (−15.7) |
−22.6 (−8.7) |
−16.4 (2.5) |
−9.6 (14.7) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
0.7 (33.3) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
−21.4 (−6.5) |
−26.0 (−14.8) |
−26.5 (−15.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5.0 (0.20) |
9.9 (0.39) |
20.9 (0.82) |
36.4 (1.43) |
79.0 (3.11) |
139.3 (5.48) |
121.0 (4.76) |
94.8 (3.73) |
104.4 (4.11) |
52.1 (2.05) |
10.3 (0.41) |
3.4 (0.13) |
676.5 (26.62) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.8 | 5.6 | 8.8 | 13.4 | 18.2 | 22.7 | 20.8 | 18.2 | 18.4 | 13.6 | 4.8 | 2.7 | 151 |
| Average snowy days | 5.4 | 7.9 | 11.0 | 8.3 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 49.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 42 | 43 | 46 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 68 | 64 | 53 | 47 | 56 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 215.3 | 195.0 | 215.5 | 212.8 | 223.5 | 197.8 | 200.6 | 198.9 | 204.2 | 213.7 | 229.7 | 232.6 | 2,539.6 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 67 | 62 | 58 | 54 | 52 | 47 | 47 | 49 | 56 | 61 | 73 | 74 | 58 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[4][5][6] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China[7] | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
[edit]Garzê County is divided into 3 towns and 18 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Garzê Town (Ganzi) |
甘孜镇 | Gānzī Zhèn | དཀར་མཛེས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dkar mdzes grong rdal | 513328100 | |
| Calung Town (Chalong) |
查龙镇 | Chálóng Zhèn | ཚྭ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tshwa lung grong rdal | 513328101 | |
| Dainma Town (Laima) |
来马镇 | Láimǎ Zhèn | འདན་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'dan ma grong rdal | 513328102 | |
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| Garrag Township (Gala) |
呷拉乡 | Gālā Xiāng | དཀར་རགས་ཤང་། | dkar rags shang | 513328200 | |
| Sêrqudêng Township (Sexidi) |
色西底乡 | Sèxīdǐ Xiāng | གསེར་ཆུ་སྟེང་ཤང་། | gser chu steng shang | 513328201 | |
| Dando Township (Nanduo) |
南多乡 | Nánduō Xiāng | མདའ་མདོ་ཤང་། | mda' mdo shang | 513328202 | |
| Sêrkar Township (Shengkang) |
生康乡 | Shēngkāng Xiāng | གསེར་མཁར་ཤང་། | gser mkhar shang | 513328203 | |
| Konglam Township (Kolam, Gonglong) |
贡隆乡 | Gònglóng Xiāng | གོང་ལམ་ཤང་། | gong lam shang | 513328204 | |
| Zakog Township (Zhake) |
扎科乡 | Zhākē Xiāng | རྫ་ཁོག་ཤང་། | rdza khog shang | 513328205 | |
| Qêsêr Township (Xise) |
昔色乡 | Xīsè Xiāng | བྱེ་གསེར་ཤང་། | bye gser shang | 513328207 | |
| Kargang Township (Kagong) |
卡攻乡 | Kǎgōng Xiāng | མཁར་སྒང་ཤང་། | mkhar sgang shang | 513328208 | |
| Ringo Township (Renguo) |
仁果乡 | Rénguǒ Xiāng | རི་མགོ་ཤང་། | ri mgo shang | 513328209 | |
| Doba Township (Tuoba) |
拖坝乡 | Tuōbà Xiāng | ལྟོ་པ་ཤང་། | lto pa shang | 513328210 | |
| Tingka Township | 庭卡乡 | Tíngkǎ Xiāng | ཐིང་ཁ་ཤང་། | thing kha shang | 513328212 | |
| Xarqog Township (Xiaxiong) |
下雄乡 | Xiàxióng Xiāng | ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཤང་། | shar phyogs shang | 513328213 | |
| Sitangda Township (Sitongda) |
四通达乡 | Sìtōngdá Xiāng | ཟི་ཐང་མདའ་ཤང་། | zi thang mda' shang | 513328214 | |
| Dotog Township (Dodi, Duodu) |
夺多乡 | Duóduō Xiāng | རྡོ་ཐོག་ཤང་། | rdo thog shang | 513328215 | |
| Nyikog Township (Nike) |
泥柯乡 | Níkē Xiāng | ཉི་ཁོག་ཤང་། | nyi khog shang | 513328216 | |
| Caza Township (Chazha) |
茶扎乡 | Cházhā Xiāng | ཚ་རྩྭ་ཤང་། | tsha rtswa shang | 513328217 | |
| Dadoi Township (Dade) |
大德乡 | Dàdé Xiāng | ཟླ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | zla stod shang | 513328218 | |
| Kyaglung Township (Karlung, Kalong) |
卡龙乡 | Kǎlóng Xiāng | འཁྱགས་ལུང་ཤང་། | 'khyags lung shang | 513328219 | |
Transport
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ^ Tibet 2002: A Year Book. London: Tibet Information Network. 2003. p. 149. ISBN 0-9541961-5-5 – via archive.org.
- ^ City Population. "Gānzī Zhèn (Gānzī Xiàn)". Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ "Sina Visitor System" 【高温进入鼎盛阶段】今天高温榜被重庆四川陕西站点包揽，重庆巫溪43.8℃全国第一。今天河北河南山西陕西四川有63站气温打破8月最高纪录，其中西安泾河39.7℃也创当地8月最高纪录。陕西紫阳42.4℃、四川雅江38.2℃创观测史最高气温纪录。今天14个省会直辖市出现高温。郑州拿下第46个高温日，追平全年高温日数最多纪录。未来2天高温依然强悍，在四川盆地还会看到40℃以上高温，部分地区依然可能出现破纪录的情况。黄河长江之间一带，要警惕高温中暑的风险。8月6日以后，随着降雨增多南压，陕西山西河南一带的高温缩减。但是后期随着形势变化，8月7日以后，华南降水减少，高温可能发展增多，也就是立秋后，呈现高温重心南落的趋势。比如西安明天报出41℃，可能继续破8月纪录，8月6日降至36℃普通高温，8月7日退出高温圈。郑州明天将迎来今年第47个高温日，打破纪录，并且高温可能延续到8月7日，全年高温日数纪录可能刷新为50天。8月8日郑州退出高温，8月9日最高气温可能降至30℃以下。广州和南宁8月8日以后，连续报出高温。 (in Simplified Chinese). weatherman_信欣 on Weibo. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- ^ 甘孜 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
External links
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Ganzi.
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