Li County, Sichuan
Li County or Lixian (Chinese: 理县; Tibetan: ལིས་རྫོང་།; Qiang: pauɕuq), formerly known as Lifan (理番), is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China.
China National Highway G317 and the Zhaxiling River run through the whole territory.
Li County 理县 · ལིས་རྫོང་། · Bez Lixian | |
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 Bailong Waterfall in Bipenggou, Li County | |
.png) Li County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province | |
  Li County Location of the seat in Sichuan  Li County Li County (China) | |
| Coordinates (Li County government): 31°26′09″N 103°09′48″E / 31.4358°N 103.1633°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| County seat | Zhaxiling (Zagunao) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,318 km2 (1,667 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 36,926 |
| • Density | 8.6/km2 (22/sq mi) |
| • Major nationalities | Tibetan - 53.43% Qiang - 33.50% Han - 12.46% Hui - 0.41% |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Li County, Sichuan | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 理县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 理縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ལིས་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Qiang name | |||||||
| Qiang | Bez | ||||||
On May 12, 2008, the area was affected by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Geography
Li County is located from 30°54′43″N 102°32′46″E / 30.91194°N 102.54611°E (30.911944°, 102.546111°) to 31°12′12″N 103°30′30″E / 31.20333°N 103.50833°E (31.203333°, 103.508333°).
Climate
| Climate data for Lixian, elevation 1,897 m (6,224 ft), (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) | 20.9 (69.6) | 30.4 (86.7) | 31.7 (89.1) | 32.0 (89.6) | 33.4 (92.1) | 34.6 (94.3) | 35.8 (96.4) | 34.4 (93.9) | 33.6 (92.5) | 27.6 (81.7) | 24.4 (75.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 35.8 (96.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.8 (44.2) | 10.8 (51.4) | 15.4 (59.7) | 20.6 (69.1) | 23.1 (73.6) | 24.8 (76.6) | 27.3 (81.1) | 27.5 (81.5) | 23.2 (73.8) | 18.2 (64.8) | 13.4 (56.1) | 8.1 (46.6) | 18.3 (64.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) | 3.9 (39.0) | 8.1 (46.6) | 12.7 (54.9) | 15.8 (60.4) | 18.2 (64.8) | 20.6 (69.1) | 20.6 (69.1) | 17.1 (62.8) | 12.3 (54.1) | 7.2 (45.0) | 2.2 (36.0) | 11.6 (53.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.1 (26.4) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.3 (37.9) | 7.4 (45.3) | 10.8 (51.4) | 13.9 (57.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 13.3 (55.9) | 8.7 (47.7) | 3.2 (37.8) | −1.8 (28.8) | 7.3 (45.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −11.0 (12.2) | −10.9 (12.4) | −7.9 (17.8) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.2 (37.8) | 7.2 (45.0) | 9.3 (48.7) | 7.4 (45.3) | 5.2 (41.4) | −0.2 (31.6) | −5.3 (22.5) | −12.1 (10.2) | −12.1 (10.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.5 (0.30) | 12.4 (0.49) | 34.1 (1.34) | 62.2 (2.45) | 96.8 (3.81) | 108.1 (4.26) | 76.2 (3.00) | 68.8 (2.71) | 78.3 (3.08) | 63.2 (2.49) | 15.2 (0.60) | 4.1 (0.16) | 626.9 (24.69) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.8 | 8.3 | 13.0 | 16.9 | 19.6 | 21.0 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 7.3 | 3.9 | 162 |
| Average snowy days | 12.2 | 11.1 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 7.1 | 39.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 62 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 69 | 73 | 73 | 69 | 64 | 67 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 80.7 | 130.5 | 162.7 | 174.8 | 170.9 | 136.8 | 158.3 | 164.5 | 128.8 | 121.7 | 87.2 | 67.7 | 1,584.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 25 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 40 | 32 | 37 | 40 | 35 | 35 | 28 | 22 | 35 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
Li County oversees 6 towns and 5 townships.The county government is seated in the town of Zhaxiling.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Qiang | Administrative division code | |
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| Zhaxiling Town (Zagunao) | 杂谷脑镇 | Zágǔnǎo Zhèn | བཀྲ་ཤིས་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bkra shis gling grong rdal | Bawxiaen | 513222100 | |
| Nyaglo Town (Zagunao) | 米亚罗镇 | Mǐyàluó Zhèn | མྱག་ལོ་ཀྲེན། | myag lo kren | Miyalo | 513222101 | |
| Gubrago Town (Gu'ergou) | 古尔沟镇 | Gǔ'ěrgōu Zhèn | ཀུབ་ར་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kub ra mgo grong rdal | Guergeu | 513222102 | |
| Xuecheng Town (Xüchêng) | 薛城镇 | Xuēchéng Zhèn | ཞུའེ་ཁྲེང་ཀྲེན་། | zhuve khreng kren | 513222103 | ||
| Taoping Town | 桃坪镇 | Táopíng Zhèn | ཐའོ་ཕིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thavo phing grong rdal | Saqi | 513222104 | |
| Putou Town (Püdü) | 朴头镇 | Pǔtóu Zhèn | ཕུའི་འཏུའི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phuvi vtuvi grong rdal | 513222105 | ||
| Townships | |||||||
| Ganbao Township (Gainpu) | 甘堡乡 | Gānbǎo Xiāng | ཀམ་ཕུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kam phu yul tsho | 513222202 | ||
| Puxi Township (Puqi) | 蒲溪乡 | Púxī Xiāng | ཕུའུ་ཆི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | phuvu chi yul tsho | 513222203 | ||
| Bodogxugo Township (Shangmeng) | 上孟乡 | Shàngmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཀོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu ko yul tsho | 513222204 | ||
| Bodogxudo Township (Xiameng) | 下孟乡 | Xiàmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཏོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu to yul tsho | 513222205 | ||
| Tonghua Township | 通化乡 | Tōnghuà Xiāng | ཐོང་ཧྭ་ཞང་། | thong hwa zhang | 513222207 | ||
Demographics
As of 2018, Li County had a registered population of 43,375. 11,706 of the county's population, or 27%, is urbanized.
The county had a population of 42,494 in 1999.
Ethnic groups
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage |
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| Tibetan | 23,175 | 53.43% |
| Qiang | 14,531 | 33.50% |
| Han | 5,405 | 12.46% |
| Hui | 179 | 0.41% |
| Other | 85 | 0.20% |
Transport
Notes
External links
- (in Chinese) New County Government Website
- (in Chinese) Old County Government Website - Google translation
- (in Chinese) Li County (bashu.net) - Google translation
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