Dulan_County
Dulan County
County in Qinghai, China
Dulan County (Mongolian: ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ; Tibetan: ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་; Chinese: 都兰县) is a county of east-central Qinghai province, China. It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Quick Facts ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ • 都兰县 • ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་Dulain, Dêrlam, Country ...
Dulan County
ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ • 都兰县 • ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ Dulain, Dêrlam | |
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Dulan County (light red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 36°18′N 98°05′E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haixi |
| County seat | Qagan Us |
| Area | |
| • Total | 45,270 km2 (17,480 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,194 m (10,479 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 68,273 |
| • Density | 1.5/km2 (3.9/sq mi) |
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| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 816100 |
| Website | www |
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Quick Facts Chinese name, Simplified Chinese ...
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| Simplified Chinese | 都兰县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 都蘭縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ or གཏེར་ལམ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||||||
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With an elevation of around 3,200 metres (10,000 ft), Dulan County has a subalpine semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk), with long, very cold and winters, and warm summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from early/mid October to mid/late April; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation, only December and January have an average high that is below freezing. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 60% in July to 81% in November, the county seat is very sunny, receiving 3,092 hours of bright sunshine annually; relative humidity in all months is below 50% and is for seven months below 40%. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −9.6 °C (14.7 °F) in January to 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 3.41 °C (38.1 °F). Over 70% of the annual precipitation of 218 mm (8.58 in) is delivered from May to August.
More information Climate data for Dulan County (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010), Month ...
| Climate data for Dulan County (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.7 (53.1) |
15.9 (60.6) |
20.0 (68.0) |
27.1 (80.8) |
28.0 (82.4) |
28.9 (84.0) |
31.8 (89.2) |
32.2 (90.0) |
30.3 (86.5) |
23.3 (73.9) |
16.1 (61.0) |
11.5 (52.7) |
32.2 (90.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.0 (28.4) |
1.6 (34.9) |
6.1 (43.0) |
12.0 (53.6) |
16.2 (61.2) |
19.4 (66.9) |
22.0 (71.6) |
21.8 (71.2) |
17.5 (63.5) |
10.6 (51.1) |
4.4 (39.9) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
10.8 (51.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.4 (15.1) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
5.1 (41.2) |
9.5 (49.1) |
13.0 (55.4) |
15.3 (59.5) |
14.8 (58.6) |
10.3 (50.5) |
3.3 (37.9) |
−3.1 (26.4) |
−8.1 (17.4) |
3.7 (38.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −14.7 (5.5) |
−11 (12) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
3.0 (37.4) |
6.9 (44.4) |
9.4 (48.9) |
8.7 (47.7) |
4.5 (40.1) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−13.2 (8.2) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −26.4 (−15.5) |
−22.2 (−8.0) |
−18.1 (−0.6) |
−12.6 (9.3) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
0.6 (33.1) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−12.6 (9.3) |
−18.8 (−1.8) |
−25.7 (−14.3) |
−26.4 (−15.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 4.2 (0.17) |
5.8 (0.23) |
7.6 (0.30) |
9.1 (0.36) |
31.1 (1.22) |
51.7 (2.04) |
57.5 (2.26) |
29.2 (1.15) |
19.3 (0.76) |
5.9 (0.23) |
5.2 (0.20) |
2.5 (0.10) |
229.1 (9.02) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 7.4 | 10.6 | 11.4 | 8.6 | 6.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 69.2 |
| Average snowy days | 5.6 | 5.4 | 6.4 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 37.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 41 | 36 | 33 | 30 | 37 | 48 | 51 | 47 | 45 | 37 | 37 | 38 | 40 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 225.1 | 213.5 | 247.1 | 268.5 | 269.6 | 246.8 | 254.9 | 258.6 | 242.4 | 264.7 | 238.8 | 227.6 | 2,957.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 72 | 69 | 66 | 68 | 62 | 57 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 77 | 79 | 76 | 68 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3][4] | |||||||||||||
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More information Climate data for Nuomuhong, Dulan (1991–2020 normals), Month ...
| Climate data for Nuomuhong, Dulan (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.5 (31.1) |
4.5 (40.1) |
9.8 (49.6) |
15.9 (60.6) |
20.5 (68.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
26.5 (79.7) |
25.9 (78.6) |
21.5 (70.7) |
14.3 (57.7) |
6.5 (43.7) |
0.4 (32.7) |
14.1 (57.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.9 (16.0) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
1.6 (34.9) |
7.8 (46.0) |
12.6 (54.7) |
16.4 (61.5) |
18.5 (65.3) |
17.5 (63.5) |
12.9 (55.2) |
5.3 (41.5) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
5.8 (42.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.4 (4.3) |
−11.1 (12.0) |
−5.6 (21.9) |
0.3 (32.5) |
5.2 (41.4) |
9.5 (49.1) |
11.8 (53.2) |
10.9 (51.6) |
6.4 (43.5) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−8.9 (16.0) |
−14.4 (6.1) |
−1.1 (30.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.1 (0.04) |
0.7 (0.03) |
0.8 (0.03) |
1.4 (0.06) |
7.5 (0.30) |
14.0 (0.55) |
12.8 (0.50) |
7.5 (0.30) |
4.9 (0.19) |
0.6 (0.02) |
0.3 (0.01) |
0.5 (0.02) |
52.1 (2.05) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.9 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 4.5 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 29.2 |
| Average snowy days | 2.8 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 12.6 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 39 | 30 | 26 | 24 | 29 | 39 | 44 | 41 | 39 | 33 | 34 | 38 | 35 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 223.8 | 220.3 | 264.6 | 284.0 | 288.3 | 262.7 | 267.3 | 264.7 | 244.4 | 259.3 | 243.9 | 227.1 | 3,050.4 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 72 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 66 | 60 | 61 | 64 | 67 | 76 | 81 | 76 | 70 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[5][6] | |||||||||||||
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Dulan County is divided into 4 towns and 4 townships.
More information Name, Simplified Chinese ...
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Mongolian (traditional script) | Mongolian (Cyrillic) | Administrative division code |
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| Qagan Us Town (Chahanwusu, Cahainwusu) |
察汉乌苏镇 | Cháhànwūsū Zhèn | ཚ་ཧན་བུའུ་སུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tsha han bu'u su'u grong rdal | ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ᠋ᠤᠰᠤᠨ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ | Цагааносон балгас | 632822100 |
| Xangdê Town (Xiangride, Dorboljin) |
香日德镇 | Xiāngrìdé Zhèn | ཤངས་སྡེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | shangs sde grong rdal | ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠯᠵᠢᠨ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ | Дөрвөлжин балгас | 632822101 |
| Xarag Town (Xaruha, Xarrika, Xiariha) |
夏日哈镇 | Xiàrìhā Zhèn | ཤ་རུ་ཧ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sha ru ha grong rdal | 632822102 | ||
| Zongja Town (Juun, Zongjia) |
宗加镇 | Zōngjiā Zhèn | ཙོང་ཇ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tsong ja grong rdal | ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ | Зүүн балгас | 632822103 |
| Townships | |||||||
| Qukoi Township (Reshui) |
热水乡 | Rèshuǐ Xiāng | ཆུ་ཁོལ་ཞང་། | chu khol zhang | 632822200 | ||
| Xang Township (Xiangjia) |
香加乡 | Xiāngjiā Xiāng | ᠱᠠᠩ ᠰᠤᠮᠤ | Шан сум | 632822201 | ||
| Guru Township (Guri, Gugri, Gouli) |
沟里乡 | Gōulǐ Xiāng | རྒུ་རུ་ཞང་། | rgu ru zhang | 632822202 | ||
| Barun Township (Balung, Balong) |
巴隆乡 | Bālóng Xiāng | པ་ལུང་ཞང་། | pa lung zhang | ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠰᠤᠮᠤ | Баруун сум | 632822203 |
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