Gonghe County
Gonghe County (Chinese: 共和县; Tibetan: གསེར་ཆེན་རྫོང་།), also known as Kungho, is a county of Qinghai Province, China under the administration of Hainan Prefecture.
The seat of Gonghe County is in the town of Qabqa.
Gonghe County 共和县 · གསེར་ཆེན་རྫོང་། Kungho | |
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.png) Gonghe County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Gonghe Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates (Gonghe County government): 36°17′03″N 100°37′10″E / 36.2842°N 100.6194°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Hainan |
| County seat | Qabqa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 16,364 km2 (6,318 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 133,409 |
| • Density | 8.2/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 共和县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 共和縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | གསེར་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Administrative divisions
Gonghe County is made up of 7 towns and 4 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Qabqa Town (Qiabuqia) | 恰卜恰镇 | Qiàbǔqià Zhèn | ཆབ་ཆ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | chab cha grong brdal | 632521100 | |
| Rigmoin Town (Daotanghe) | 倒淌河镇 | Dàotǎnghé Zhèn | རིག་སྨོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rig smon grong rdal | 632521101 | |
| Cai'ngagag Town (Longyangxia) | 龙羊峡镇 | Lóngyángxiá Zhèn | ཚལ་རྔ་འགག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tshal rnga 'gag grong rdal | 632521102 | |
| Tanggarma Town (Tanggemu) | 塘格木镇 | Tánggémù Zhèn | ཐང་དཀར་མ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | thang dkar ma grong brdal | 632521103 | |
| Danagma Town (Heimahe) | 黑马河镇 | Hēimǎhé Zhèn | རྟ་ནག་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rta nag ma grong rdal | 632521104 | |
| Sênag Town (Zhênag, Zhiunag, Shinaihai) | 石乃亥镇 | Shínǎihài Zhèn | སྤྲེའུ་ནག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | spre'u nag grong rdal | 632521105 | |
| Jangxê Town (Jangsi, Jiangxigou, Jings) | 江西沟镇 | Jiāngxīgōu Zhèn | ཅང་ཤེས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | cang shes grong rdal | 632521106 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Sazhubxi Township | 沙珠玉乡 | Shāzhūyù Xiāng | ས་གྲུ་བཞི་ཞང་། | sa gru bzhi zhang | 632521202 | |
| Têgê Township (Tiegai, Deegee) | 铁盖乡 | Tiěgài Xiāng | ཐེ་གེ་ཞང་། | the ge zhang | 632521203 | |
| Êrdi Township (Niandi, Irt) | 廿地乡 | Niàndì Xiāng | ཨེར་སྟི་ཞང་། | er sti zhang | 632521204 | |
| Qoijê Township (Qieji) | 切吉乡 | Qièjí Xiāng | ཆོས་རྗེ་ཞང་། | chos rje zhang | 632521205 | |
Others:
- Hainan Prefecture Green Industry Development Park Management Zone Committee (海南州绿色产业发展园区管理区委员会)
- Tanggarma Farm (巴卡台农场)
- Anzhi Farm (安置农场)
- Tiebujia Grassland Improvement Station (铁卜加草改站)
Demographics
In 2006, 55% of the population were Tibetans, with Han, Hui, Mongolian and Salar minorities.
Economy
Gonghe is rich in grassland, used for animal husbandry. Crops such as wheat, barley, peas, potatoes, beans, oilseed and oats are also grown.
Geography
The county is located along Qinghai Lake. Local grasslands have been at risk of desertification, combated by newly planted grassland and forests.
Climate
| Climate data for Gonghe County (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.8 (53.2) | 16.3 (61.3) | 23.2 (73.8) | 29.8 (85.6) | 27.9 (82.2) | 28.4 (83.1) | 33.7 (92.7) | 32.2 (90.0) | 29.4 (84.9) | 21.5 (70.7) | 15.4 (59.7) | 10.2 (50.4) | 33.7 (92.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 0.1 (32.2) | 4.3 (39.7) | 9.3 (48.7) | 14.7 (58.5) | 17.9 (64.2) | 20.7 (69.3) | 22.8 (73.0) | 22.5 (72.5) | 18.2 (64.8) | 12.9 (55.2) | 6.9 (44.4) | 1.5 (34.7) | 12.7 (54.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.4 (16.9) | −4.2 (24.4) | 1.3 (34.3) | 7.0 (44.6) | 11.0 (51.8) | 14.3 (57.7) | 16.4 (61.5) | 15.7 (60.3) | 11.4 (52.5) | 5.2 (41.4) | −1.9 (28.6) | −7.3 (18.9) | 5.0 (41.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −14.9 (5.2) | −10.9 (12.4) | −5.3 (22.5) | 0.3 (32.5) | 4.7 (40.5) | 8.5 (47.3) | 10.7 (51.3) | 10.2 (50.4) | 6.3 (43.3) | −0.7 (30.7) | −8.2 (17.2) | −13.6 (7.5) | −1.1 (30.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −25.9 (−14.6) | −23.4 (−10.1) | −18.9 (−2.0) | −12.6 (9.3) | −5.4 (22.3) | −0.7 (30.7) | 3.1 (37.6) | 1.2 (34.2) | −3.4 (25.9) | −13.0 (8.6) | −23.8 (−10.8) | −24.8 (−12.6) | −25.9 (−14.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.7 (0.07) | 1.8 (0.07) | 5.6 (0.22) | 15.0 (0.59) | 41.2 (1.62) | 57.5 (2.26) | 76.8 (3.02) | 71.3 (2.81) | 48.2 (1.90) | 12.8 (0.50) | 2.3 (0.09) | 1.0 (0.04) | 335.2 (13.19) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.4 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 5.0 | 11.0 | 14.4 | 15.5 | 14.5 | 13.0 | 5.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 88.8 |
| Average snowy days | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 23.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 37 | 35 | 38 | 47 | 55 | 60 | 61 | 64 | 55 | 44 | 43 | 49 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 229.9 | 224.4 | 255.4 | 261.3 | 259.4 | 236.4 | 246.1 | 250.2 | 216.8 | 243.7 | 240.8 | 234.8 | 2,899.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 74 | 72 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 54 | 56 | 61 | 59 | 71 | 79 | 78 | 66 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
See also
References
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