Lhari County
嘉黎县 • ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Location of Lhari County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
  Lhari Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region  Lhari Lhari (China) | |
| Coordinates: 31°05′22″N 92°54′02″E / 31.08944°N 92.90056°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
| County seat | Arza |
| Area | |
• Total | 13,068.68 km2 (5,045.85 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 38,797 |
| • Density | 2.9687/km2 (7.6889/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Lhari County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 嘉黎县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 嘉黎縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Lhari County (Tibetan: ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 嘉黎县) is a small county within the prefecture-level city of Nagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
The 11th Dalai Lama was born in Lhari County, as were both of the rival candidates for the position of the current Panchen Lama.[2]
Administrative divisions
The county contains the following 2 towns and 8 townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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| Towns | ||||
| Arza Town | 阿扎镇 | Ãzhā zhèn | ཨར་རྩ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ar rtsa grong rdal |
| Lhari Town | 嘉黎镇 | Jiālí zhèn | ལྷ་རི་་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lha ri grong rdal |
| Townships | ||||
| Nyiwu Township (Drongyül) |
尼屋乡 | Níwū xiāng | སྙིའུ་ཤང་། | snyi'u shang |
| Dzabbel Township (Zabbe) |
藏比乡 | Zàngbǐ xiāng | རྫབ་འབེལ་ཤང་། | rdzab 'bel shang |
| Codoi Township | 措多乡 | Cuòduō xiāng | ཚོ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | tsho stod shang |
| Xarma Township | 夏玛乡 | Xiàmǎ xiāng | ཤར་མ་ཤང་། | shar ma shang |
| Lingti Township | 林堤乡 | Líndī xiāng | གླིང་མཐིལ་ཤང་། | gling mthil shang |
| Mitika Township (Midikha, Cora, Tsora) |
麦地卡乡 | Màidìkǎ xiāng | སྨི་ཏི་ཁ་ཤང་། | smi ti kha shang |
| Rongdoi Township (Rongtö) |
绒多乡 | Róngduō xiāng | རོང་སྟོད་ཤང་། | rong stod shang |
| Goqung Township (Kochung) |
鸽群乡 | Gēqún xiāng | ཀོ་ཆུང་ཤང་། | ko chung shang |
Climate
| Climate data for Lhari, elevation 4,489 m (14,728 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1991–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 12.1 (53.8) |
11.6 (52.9) |
16.8 (62.2) |
18.5 (65.3) |
19.0 (66.2) |
21.0 (69.8) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.4 (72.3) |
20.6 (69.1) |
17.8 (64.0) |
13.3 (55.9) |
13.2 (55.8) |
23.0 (73.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −1.1 (30.0) |
0.5 (32.9) |
3.1 (37.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.8 (58.6) |
16.1 (61.0) |
15.9 (60.6) |
13.9 (57.0) |
9.1 (48.4) |
4.0 (39.2) |
1.0 (33.8) |
7.9 (46.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.1 (13.8) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
3.8 (38.8) |
7.7 (45.9) |
9.1 (48.4) |
8.6 (47.5) |
6.5 (43.7) |
1.6 (34.9) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
0.1 (32.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −17.9 (−0.2) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−5.6 (21.9) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
2.7 (36.9) |
4.2 (39.6) |
3.8 (38.8) |
1.8 (35.2) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−16.5 (2.3) |
−5.8 (21.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −29.8 (−21.6) |
−31.1 (−24.0) |
−27.2 (−17.0) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−17.1 (1.2) |
−24.2 (−11.6) |
−30.2 (−22.4) |
−31.1 (−24.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.5 (0.30) |
12.6 (0.50) |
24.1 (0.95) |
38.5 (1.52) |
83.0 (3.27) |
152.1 (5.99) |
153.6 (6.05) |
132.6 (5.22) |
111.2 (4.38) |
37.9 (1.49) |
11.3 (0.44) |
5.1 (0.20) |
769.5 (30.31) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 7.2 | 8.6 | 13.2 | 15.5 | 19.2 | 23.1 | 23.8 | 22.0 | 20.5 | 13.1 | 5.9 | 4.1 | 176.2 |
| Average snowy days | 11.6 | 12.8 | 18.2 | 20.4 | 20.7 | 6.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 6.7 | 16.8 | 9.4 | 8.0 | 134.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 49 | 49 | 54 | 59 | 64 | 69 | 72 | 73 | 72 | 63 | 53 | 48 | 60 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 209.1 | 196.0 | 218.4 | 214.7 | 224.0 | 190.8 | 174.1 | 181.7 | 187.8 | 228.5 | 227.9 | 219.2 | 2,472.2 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 65 | 62 | 58 | 55 | 53 | 45 | 41 | 45 | 51 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 57 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] all-time extreme temperature[5] | |||||||||||||
Gallery
References
- ^ "那曲市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Nagqu. 2021-07-09.
- ^ Zhong, Zhang (1995-12-29). "Six-Year-Old Becomes The 11th Panchen Lama". China Tibet Information Center. Archived from the original on 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ "Extreme Temperatures Around the World". Retrieved 2025-08-01.
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