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Xinlong County
新龙县 · ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་།
Nyagrong, Nyarong
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Location of Xinlong County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
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 Xinlong County
Location in Sichuan
Xinlong County
Location in China
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| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Rinoi (Rulong) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,570 km2 (3,310 sq mi) |
| Population
(2020)
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| • Total | 45,698 |
| • Density | 5.332/km2 (13.811/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 新龙县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新龍縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Xinlong or Nyagrong County (Chinese: 新龙县; Tibetan: ཉག་རོང་རྫོང་།) is a county in the west of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Xinlong County is part of historical region of Nyarong.
Jazi (Nyarong Jazi Gon; Jazi Gon Sangngak Dechen Choling; gya bzi dgon, gya dgon, ja bzi dgon gsang sngags bde chen chos gling; Chinese: 甲孜寺; pinyin: Jiǎzī Sì) is a Nyingma monastery in Xilong County that was founded in 1866. Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa (1901–1975) studied here as a young boy, before going to Tromge Monastery.
Administrative divisions
Xinlong County is divided into 6 towns and 10 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Rinoi Town (Rinang, Rulong) |
如龙镇 | Rúlóng Zhèn | རི་བསྣོལ་ཀྲེན། | ri bsnol kren | 513329100 | |
| Lharima Town (Larima, Lagruma) |
拉日马镇 | Lārìmǎ Zhèn | ལྷ་རི་མ་ཀྲེན། | lha ri ma kren | 513329101 | |
| Dagin Town (Dagain, Dagai) |
大盖镇 | Dàgài Zhèn | བརྡ་ཀིན་ཀྲེན། | brda kin kren | 513329102 | |
| Tanggyi Town (Tongxiao) |
通宵镇 | Tōngxiāo Zhèn | ཐང་སྐྱིད་ཀྲེན། | thang skyid kren | 513329103 | |
| Sêr'oi Town (Sewei) |
色威镇 | Sèwēi Zhèn | གསེར་འོད་ཀྲེན། | gser 'od kren | 513329104 | |
| Yanglaxi Town (Youlaxi) |
尤拉西镇 | Yóulāxī Zhèn | གཡང་ལ་གཤིས་ཀྲེན། | g.yang la gshis kren | 513329105 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Sadoi Township (Shadui) |
沙堆乡 | Shāduī Xiāng | ས་སྟོད་ཤང་། | sa stod shang | 513329200 | |
| Ralang Township (Raolu) |
绕鲁乡 | Ràolǔ Xiāng | ར་ལངས་ཤང་། | ra langs shang | 513329203 | |
| Pangmai Township (Bangmai, Bomei) |
博美乡 | Bóměi Xiāng | བང་སྨད་ཤང་། | bang smad shang | 513329207 | |
| Zitogxi Township (Zituoxi) |
子拖西乡 | Zǐtuōxī Xiāng | རྩི་ཐོག་གཤིས་ཤང་། | rtsi thog gshis shang | 513329209 | |
| Baxi Township (Heping) |
和平乡 | Hépíng Xiāng | འབའ་གཤིས་ཤང་། | 'ba' gshis shang | 513329210 | |
| Norkog Township (Luogu) |
洛古乡 | Luógǔ Xiāng | ནོར་ཁོག་ཤང་། | nor khog shang | 513329211 | |
| Xanglongxi Township (Xionglongxi) |
雄龙西乡 | Xiónglóngxī Xiāng | ཤང་ལོང་གཤིས་ཤང་། | shang long gshis shang | 513329212 | |
| Mari Township | 麻日乡 | Márì Xiāng | མ་རིད་ཤང་། | ma rid shang | 513329213 | |
| Yangnü Township (Youyi) |
友谊乡 | Yǒuyì Xiāng | གཡང་ནུས་ཤང་། | g.yang nus shang | 513329215 | |
| Xindo Township (Yinduo) |
银多乡 | Yínduō Xiāng | བཞི་མདོ་ཤང་། | bzhi mdo shang | 513329217 | |
Climate
| Climate data for Xinlong, elevation 3,000 m (9,800 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) | 24.1 (75.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
29.1 (84.4) |
30.2 (86.4) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.6 (92.5) |
33.2 (91.8) |
33.0 (91.4) |
32.2 (90.0) |
28.5 (83.3) |
24.2 (75.6) |
21.4 (70.5) |
33.6 (92.5) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 10.5 (50.9) |
12.9 (55.2) |
15.5 (59.9) |
18.8 (65.8) |
22.2 (72.0) |
23.6 (74.5) |
23.9 (75.0) |
24.2 (75.6) |
22.2 (72.0) |
18.6 (65.5) |
14.7 (58.5) |
10.9 (51.6) |
18.2 (64.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.2 (29.8) |
1.7 (35.1) |
5.0 (41.0) |
8.6 (47.5) |
12.3 (54.1) |
14.5 (58.1) |
15.3 (59.5) |
15.0 (59.0) |
12.8 (55.0) |
8.4 (47.1) |
3.1 (37.6) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
7.9 (46.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −10.0 (14.0) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.1 (41.2) |
9.0 (48.2) |
10.3 (50.5) |
9.8 (49.6) |
7.6 (45.7) |
2.0 (35.6) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
0.9 (33.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −19.0 (−2.2) |
−16.0 (3.2) |
−13.8 (7.2) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
0.3 (32.5) |
3.0 (37.4) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−19.2 (−2.6) |
−19.2 (−2.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.2 (0.05) |
3.6 (0.14) |
11.4 (0.45) |
29.4 (1.16) |
63.1 (2.48) |
142.6 (5.61) |
142.8 (5.62) |
113.5 (4.47) |
105.1 (4.14) |
34.5 (1.36) |
4.5 (0.18) |
1.3 (0.05) |
653 (25.71) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.5 | 2.7 | 7.4 | 11.7 | 16.2 | 22.7 | 21.9 | 19.2 | 18.3 | 11.4 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 137.8 |
| Average snowy days | 3.3 | 5.3 | 7.8 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 27 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 36 | 37 | 44 | 50 | 57 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 65 | 49 | 40 | 55 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 165.6 | 148.2 | 161.3 | 170.2 | 181.8 | 158.1 | 155.1 | 160.3 | 153.4 | 164.2 | 167.2 | 164.6 | 1,950 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 51 | 47 | 43 | 44 | 43 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 47 | 53 | 52 | 45 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
See also
In Spanish: Xinlong para niños
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