Jainca County

Summary

Jainca County, Chentsa County or Jainzha County (Tibetan: གཅན་ཚ།, Wylie: gcan tsha; Chinese: 尖扎县; pinyin: Jiānzhā Xiàn) is a county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China, to Tibetans in the area known as Malho Prefecture, part of Amdo. There are six townships, three towns and a total of 79 administrative villages in Chentsa county. The county has an area of 1714 square kilometres and a population of ~50,000 (2001), 67% Tibetan. The county seat is the town of Markhu Thang.

Jainca
尖扎县 · གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་།
Chentsa, Jainzha
Lijiaxia lake in Janica
Lijiaxia lake in Janica
Jainca County (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Jainca County (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Jainca is located in Qinghai
Jainca
Jainca
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 35°56′18″N 102°02′00″E / 35.93833°N 102.03333°E / 35.93833; 102.03333
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHuangnan
County seatMarkhu Thang
Area
 • Total1,714 km2 (662 sq mi)
Elevation
1,990 m (6,530 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total58,173
 • Density34/km2 (88/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
811200
Area code0973
Websitewww.jianzha.gov.cn
Jainca County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese尖扎县
Traditional Chinese尖扎縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanགཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་།

Administrative divisions edit

Jainca County is made up of 3 towns and 6 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Markhu Thang Town
(Markutang, Magitang, Maketang)
马克堂镇 Mǎkètáng Zhèn མར་ཁུ་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ། mar khu thang grong brdal 632322100
Kangyang Town
(Dongna)
康扬镇 Kāngyáng Zhèn གདོང་སྣ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། gdong sna grong brdal 632322101
Kamra Town
(Kanbula)
坎布拉镇 Kǎnbùlā Zhèn ཁམས་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། khams ra grong rdal 632322102
Townships
Gya'gya Township
(Jiajia)
贾加乡 Jiǎjiā Xiāng སྐྱ་རྒྱ་ཞང་། skya rgya zhang 632322200
Cozhug Township
(Cuozhou)
措周乡 Cuòzhōu Xiāng ཚོ་དྲུག་ཞང་། tsho drug zhang 632322201
Nangra Township
(Angla)
昂拉乡 Ánglā Xiāng སྣང་ར་ཞང་། snang ra zhang 632322202
Nangkog Township
(Nengke)
能科乡 Néngkē Xiāng ནང་ཁོག་ཞང་། nang khog zhang 632322203
Dêngso Township
(Dangshun)
当顺乡 Dàngshùn Xiāng སྟེང་སོ་ཞང་། steng so zhang 632322204
Jaincatang Township
(Jianzhatan)
尖扎滩乡 Jiānzhātān Xiāng གཅན་ཚ་ཐང་ཞང་། gcan tsha thang zhang 632322205

Climate edit

Jainca County has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) and it set the record high temperature of Qinghai[citation needed], at 40.3 °C (104.5 °F), on July 24, 2000.

Climate data for Jainca County (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 12.7
(54.9)
18.2
(64.8)
29.5
(85.1)
34.5
(94.1)
31.6
(88.9)
33.1
(91.6)
40.3
(104.5)
36.0
(96.8)
31.9
(89.4)
26.0
(78.8)
18.9
(66.0)
12.8
(55.0)
40.3
(104.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 3.1
(37.6)
7.2
(45.0)
13.0
(55.4)
18.9
(66.0)
22.2
(72.0)
25.2
(77.4)
27.2
(81.0)
26.3
(79.3)
21.4
(70.5)
16.2
(61.2)
10.3
(50.5)
4.5
(40.1)
16.3
(61.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) −4.7
(23.5)
−0.6
(30.9)
5.2
(41.4)
11.1
(52.0)
14.9
(58.8)
18.2
(64.8)
20.1
(68.2)
19.3
(66.7)
14.8
(58.6)
8.9
(48.0)
2.2
(36.0)
−3.5
(25.7)
8.8
(47.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −10.5
(13.1)
−6.6
(20.1)
−0.8
(30.6)
4.6
(40.3)
8.6
(47.5)
12.0
(53.6)
14.2
(57.6)
13.8
(56.8)
10.0
(50.0)
3.6
(38.5)
−3.7
(25.3)
−9.2
(15.4)
3.0
(37.4)
Record low °C (°F) −18.8
(−1.8)
−16.4
(2.5)
−13.7
(7.3)
−6.8
(19.8)
−1.5
(29.3)
3.5
(38.3)
5.6
(42.1)
6.9
(44.4)
1.2
(34.2)
−7.5
(18.5)
−14.0
(6.8)
−18.7
(−1.7)
−18.8
(−1.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 0.8
(0.03)
1.0
(0.04)
4.4
(0.17)
15.5
(0.61)
46.5
(1.83)
55.0
(2.17)
74.7
(2.94)
77.6
(3.06)
59.2
(2.33)
18.5
(0.73)
1.3
(0.05)
0.3
(0.01)
354.8
(13.97)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.0 1.4 3.2 5.3 10.0 13.3 13.4 12.1 12.9 7.1 1.5 0.5 81.7
Average snowy days 2.1 2.8 3.9 1.3 0.1 0 0 0 0 0.7 2.1 1.6 14.6
Average relative humidity (%) 39 37 38 39 48 54 59 60 64 58 46 41 49
Mean monthly sunshine hours 205.4 203.9 233.3 243.5 246.4 230.1 239.0 229.2 186.8 210.4 213.0 207.7 2,648.7
Percent possible sunshine 66 66 62 62 56 53 54 56 51 61 70 69 61
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "黄南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 Huangnan Prefecture. 2021-07-01.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

External links edit

  • Official website of Jainca County Government