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Gannan Prefecture
甘南州 · ཀན་ལྷོ་ཁུལ། | |
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| Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州 · ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། | |
 Labrang Monastery, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
 Location of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture within Gansu | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Prefecture Seat | Hezuo |
| Government | |
| • Type | Autonomous prefecture |
| • CCP Secretary | Yu Chenghui |
| • Congress Chairman | Tashi Cao |
| • Governor | Zhao Lingyun |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Rinchen Thondup |
| Area | |
| • Total | 40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi) |
| Population (2010[citation needed]) | |
| • Total | 689,132 |
| • Density | 17/km2 (44/sq mi) |
| • Major Ethnic Groups | Tibetan−51.44% Han−41.75% Hui−6.43% |
| GDP[1] | |
| • Total | CN¥ 12.7 billion US$ 2.0 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 17,990 US$ 2,888 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-GS-30 |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 甘南藏族自治州 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘南藏族自治州 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། | ||||||||||
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Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 甘南藏族自治州; pinyin: Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Kan-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, ZYPY: Gainlho Poirig Ranggyong Kü) is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China, bordering Linxia to the north, Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east and Aba (Sichuan province) to the south. It includes Xiahe and the Labrang Monastery, Luqu, Maqu and other mostly Tibetan towns and villages. Gannan has an area of 40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi) and its capital is Hezuo city (Zoi). In the first year of the proclamation of Gannan Autonomous District, the district-seat was at the Labrang Town of Sangqu.
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Population
According to the 2010 census, Gannan has 689,132 inhabitants[2] (population density: 17.14 inhabitants per km2).
Ethnic groups in Gannan, 2000 census
| Nationality | Population | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Tibetan | 329,278 | 51.44% |
| Han | 267,260 | 41.75% |
| Hui | 41,163 | 6.43% |
| Tu | 939 | 0.15% |
| Dongxiang | 258 | 0.04% |
| Manchu | 257 | 0.04% |
| Salar | 222 | 0.03% |
| Mongols | 215 | 0.03% |
| Others | 514 | 0.09% |
Transport
In the prefecture is high-way G213. In 2013, the Gannan Xiahe Airport was opened.
Subdivisions
1 county level city, 7 counties.
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| Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie Tibetan Pinyin |
Population (2010 Census) |
Area (km2) | Density (/km2) |
| Hezuo City (Zoi City) |
合作市 | Hézuò Shì | གཙོས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | gtsos grong khyer Zoi Chongkyir |
90,290 | 2,670 | 33.81 |
| Lintan County | 临潭县 | Líntán Xiàn | ལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་། | lin than rdzong Lintain Zong |
137,001 | 1,557 | 87.99 |
| Jonê County (Zhuoni County) |
卓尼县 | Zhuóní Xiàn | ཅོ་ནེ་རྫོང་། | co ne rdzong Jonê Zong |
100,522 | 5,694 | 17.65 |
| Zhouqu County (Zhugqu County) |
舟曲县 | Zhōuqū Xiàn | འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | 'brug chu rdzong Zhugqu Zong |
132,108 | 3,010 | 43.88 |
| Têwo County (Diebu County) |
迭部县 | Diébù Xiàn | ཐེ་བོ་རྫོང་། | the bo rdzong Têwo Zong |
52,166 | 5,108 | 10.21 |
| Maqu County | 玛曲县 | Mǎqū Xiàn | རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | rma chu rdzong Maqu Zong |
54,745 | 10,190 | 6.72 |
| Luqu County | 碌曲县 | Lùqū Xiàn | ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | klu chu rdzong Gluqu Zong |
35,630 | 5,298 | 6.72 |
| Xiahe County (Sangqu County) |
夏河县 | Xiàhé Xiàn | བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | bsang chu rdzong Sangqu Zong |
86,670 | 6,674 | 12.98 |
Climate
Gannan, as illustrated by this chart for Xiahe, has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) that grades into an alpine climate (ETH) at the highest elevations. The climate is characterised by mild, rainy summers and frigid, but dry and sunny, winters.
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5 (41) |
7 (45) |
10 (50) |
13 (55) |
17 (63) |
21 (70) |
19 (66) |
17 (63) |
15 (59) |
9 (48) |
8 (46) |
5 (41) |
12 (54) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −18 (0) |
−16 (3) |
−12 (10) |
−8 (18) |
−6 (21) |
−2 (28) |
3 (37) |
1 (34) |
−3 (27) |
−7 (19) |
−12 (10) |
−16 (3) |
−8 (18) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6 (0.2) |
15 (0.6) |
14 (0.6) |
62 (2.4) |
101 (4.0) |
105 (4.1) |
174 (6.9) |
120 (4.7) |
139 (5.5) |
44 (1.7) |
9 (0.4) |
3 (0.1) |
792 (31.2) |
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See also
References
- ^ 甘肃省统计局、国家统计局甘肃调查总队 (November 2016). 《甘肃发展年鉴－2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7894-0.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Census 2012 http://www.geohive.com/cntry/cn-62.aspx Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
Further reading
- A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo - Volume 2. The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo, White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001. ISBN 974-480-049-6
- Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-019615-3
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