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Tongde County
同德县 · འབལ་རྫོང་།
Tongde County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Tongde County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Tongde is located in Qinghai
Tongde
Tongde
Location in Qinghai
Coordinates: 35°00′N 100°30′E / 35.000°N 100.500°E / 35.000; 100.500
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHainan
County seatGabasumdo
Area
 • Total
4,758 km2 (1,837 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total
60,268
 • Density13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.tongde.gov.cn
Tongde County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese同德县
Traditional Chinese同德縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTóngdé Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanཐུན་ཏེ་རྫོང་། or འབལ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliethun te rdzong or ʼbal rdzong
Tibetan PinyinTündê Zong or Bai Zong

Tongde County (Chinese: 同德县, Tibetan: འབལ་རྫོང་།) is a county of Qinghai province, China. It is under the administration of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Administrative divisions

Tongde County is made up of 2 towns and 3 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Gabasumdo Town
(Gabasongduo)
尕巴松多镇 Gǎbāsōngduō Zhèn རྐ་འབའ་སུམ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rka ʼbaʼ sum mdo grong rdal 632522100
Tanggo Town
(Tanggu)
唐谷镇 Tánggǔ Zhèn ཐང་མགོ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། thang mgo grong brdal 632522101
Townships
Balung Township
(Bagou)
巴沟乡 Bāgōu Xiāng འབའ་ལུང་ཞང་། ʼbaʼ lung zhang 632522200
Xoima Township
(Xiuma)
秀麻乡 Xiùmá Xiāng ཞོལ་མ་ཞང་། zhol ma zhang 632522201
Maqang Township
(Hebei)
河北乡 Héběi Xiāng རྨ་བྱང་ཞང་། rma byang zhang 632522202
  • Other: Provincial Grass Seed Breeding Farm (省牧草良种繁殖场)

Geography and climate

Tongde County has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc), with long, very cold and dry winters, and short, rainy, mild summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from mid/late September to mid May; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation (at an average 16.9 °C or 30.4 °F), only January has an average high that is below freezing. Despite frequent rain during summer, when a majority of days sees rain, no month has less than 50% of possible sunshine; with monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 51% in June to 81% in November, the county seat receives 2,806 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −13.0 °C (8.6 °F) in January to 11.7 °C (53.1 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 0.57 °C (33.0 °F). Over 70% of the annual precipitation of 426 mm (16.8 in) is delivered from June to September.

Climate data for Tongde County, elevation 3,148 m (10,328 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 12.7
(54.9)
13.1
(55.6)
18.9
(66.0)
25.5
(77.9)
25.4
(77.7)
26.6
(79.9)
29.8
(85.6)
28.0
(82.4)
26.4
(79.5)
21.7
(71.1)
14.5
(58.1)
10.2
(50.4)
29.8
(85.6)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 1.9
(35.4)
5.2
(41.4)
9.3
(48.7)
13.8
(56.8)
16.2
(61.2)
18.6
(65.5)
21.2
(70.2)
21.4
(70.5)
17.6
(63.7)
12.5
(54.5)
7.4
(45.3)
2.9
(37.2)
12.3
(54.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) −8.4
(16.9)
−4.6
(23.7)
0.1
(32.2)
5.2
(41.4)
8.7
(47.7)
12.0
(53.6)
14.2
(57.6)
13.7
(56.7)
9.9
(49.8)
3.9
(39.0)
−2.7
(27.1)
−7.7
(18.1)
3.7
(38.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −16.1
(3.0)
−12.5
(9.5)
−7.3
(18.9)
−2.0
(28.4)
2.4
(36.3)
6.5
(43.7)
8.6
(47.5)
8.0
(46.4)
4.8
(40.6)
−2.0
(28.4)
−9.6
(14.7)
−15.3
(4.5)
−2.9
(26.8)
Record low °C (°F) −37.2
(−35.0)
−30.7
(−23.3)
−27.0
(−16.6)
−18.3
(−0.9)
−10.3
(13.5)
−5.0
(23.0)
−2.5
(27.5)
−6.8
(19.8)
−9.6
(14.7)
−18.6
(−1.5)
−28.0
(−18.4)
−30.6
(−23.1)
−37.2
(−35.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.2
(0.09)
4.0
(0.16)
8.2
(0.32)
26.7
(1.05)
68.6
(2.70)
81.2
(3.20)
96.1
(3.78)
95.7
(3.77)
74.8
(2.94)
23.1
(0.91)
4.3
(0.17)
1.2
(0.05)
486.1
(19.14)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 2.5 3.3 4.5 7.5 15.4 18.2 18.1 16.2 17.0 8.8 2.3 1.2 115
Average snowy days 2.8 3.9 5.4 5.3 2.4 0.1 0.1 0 0.2 3.2 2.8 1.5 27.7
Average relative humidity (%) 34 34 35 44 55 63 66 66 67 58 45 35 50
Mean monthly sunshine hours 220.8 202.2 239.5 240.2 225.7 198.4 213.5 218.1 191.5 218.9 225.4 227.6 2,621.8
Percent possible sunshine 70 65 64 61 52 46 49 53 52 64 74 75 60
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4][5]

See also

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