Datong_Hui_and_Tu_Autonomous_County

Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County

Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County

Autonomous county in Qinghai, China

Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong County, or Serkhog County (simplified Chinese: 大通回族土族自治县; traditional Chinese: 大通回族土族自治縣; pinyin: Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང; or more frequently Tibetan: གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང; Monguor: Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan; Xiao'erjing: دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎) is an autonomous county of Hui and Tu peoples in Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai.[1][2][3][4][5]

"Mount Laoye" as seen from Datong
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Since 2009, a folk music "Flower Festival" has been held annually in late July on "Mount Laoye" (2928 m) in Datong town.[6]

Subdivisions

Datong County is divided into 9 towns, 9 townships, and 2 ethnic townships:

  • Qiaotou Town (桥头镇)
  • Chengguan Town (城关镇)
  • Tar Town (塔尔镇)
  • Huangjiazhai Town (黄家寨镇)
  • Changning Town (长宁镇)
  • Jingyang Town (景阳镇)
  • Duolin Town (多林镇)
  • Xinzhuang Town (新庄镇)
  • Qinglin Township (青林乡)
  • Xunrang Township (逊让乡)
  • Jile Township (极乐乡)
  • Shishan Township (石山乡)
  • Baoku Township (宝库乡)
  • Xiegou Township (斜沟乡)
  • Liangjiao Township (良教乡)
  • Hualin Township (桦林乡)
  • Xangba Tibetan Ethnic Township (向化藏族乡, ཞང་དཔའ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
  • Shobê Tibetan Ethnic Township (朔北藏族乡, ཧྲོ་པེ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)

Climate

More information Climate data for Datong (1993–2020 normals), Month ...

Transportation

  • China National Highway 227
  • Xining–Datong Expressway (Ningda Expressway)
  • Xining–Datong Railway (Ningda Railway, 宁大铁路), a 39-km long dead-end railway branch constructed in 1966-1968 and primarily serving a local coal mine. In the past, passenger service operated on the line, but ceased in 2008.
  • Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway (Datong West Station; 36.966168°N 101.672054°E / 36.966168; 101.672054), opened in December 2014. Very limited service.

See also

References

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    "༄༅༎མཐའ་ཚད་སྐྱོང་བ། དྲ་མིག་དམ་གཏོང་། ལམ་སྲོལ་འཛུགས་པ།--མི་དམངས་དྲ་བ།--人民网". tibet.people.com.cn 人民网藏语版. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
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    阳光西藏. "ལོ་༢༣བྲོས་བྱོལ་དུ་སོང་བའི་མི་གསོད་ལག་དམར་ཞིག་བཟུང་འདུག". Weixin Official Accounts Platform. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
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    "རྟ་ཐང་རྫོང་གིས་ཤུགས་ཆེན་པོས་མཐོ་སྒང་གི་ལྗང་མདོག་ལུང་པ་བསྐྲུན།-མཛེས་པའི་ཕ་ཡུལ།-མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་སྲིད་གཞུང་དྲ་བ།". www.qhtibetan.com. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
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    Qinghai to hold 3rd flower festival China Internet Information Center June 5, 2012
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    中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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    中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.

37.0939°N 101.459°E / 37.0939; 101.459

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