Banma County or Baima County is a county of southeastern Qinghai Province, China, bordering Sichuan to the south. It is the southernmost county-level division under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party passed through Banma in 1936 during the Long March.[2] The seat of Baima county is in Sêlêtang.[2]
Banma County 班玛县 · པདམ་རྫོངས། Baima | |
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| Nickname: Pema (པདམ།) | |
 Banma County (division numbered "2") in Golog Prefecture | |
  Banma Location in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 32°56′05″N 100°44′09″E / 32.93472°N 100.73583°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Golog |
| County seat | Sêlêtang |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,376 km2 (2,462 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 31,794 |
| • Density | 5.0/km2 (13/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 班玛县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 班瑪縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | པདམ་རྫོངས། | ||||||||||
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It is home to Bennak, a Nyingma monastery of the Pelyul tradition, founded in 1824, which was visited by noted female teacher Sera Khandro.[3] A 1992 work indicates that the 22 monasteries in the county are predominantly Nyingma.[4][5]
Administrative divisions
Banma is divided into one town and eight townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Sêlêtang Town (Sailaitang, Sêraitang) | 赛来塘镇 | Sàiláitáng Zhèn | སེ་ལེ་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | se le thang grong brdal | 632622100 | |
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| Dokongma Township (Duogongma) | 多贡麻乡 | Duōgòngmá Xiāng | མདོ་གོང་མ་ཞང་། | mdo gong ma zhang | 632622200 | |
| Markog Township (Makehe) | 马可河乡 | Mǎkěhé Xiāng | སྨར་ཁོག་ཞང་། | mdo gong ma zhang | 632622201 | |
| Gyimkar Township (Jika, Kyimkar) | 吉卡乡 | Jíkǎ Xiāng | གྱི་མཁར་ཞང་། | gyi mkhar zhang | 632622202 | |
| Dagkar Township (Daka) | 达卡乡 | Dákǎ Xiāng | སྟག་མཁར་ཞང་། | stag mkhar zhang | 632622203 | |
| Chubqên Township (Zhiqin) | 知钦乡 | Zhīqīn Xiāng | གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཞང་། | grub chen zhang | 632622204 | |
| Jagritang Township (Jiangritang) | 江日堂乡 | Jiāngrìtáng Xiāng | ལྕགས་རི་ཐང་ཞང་། | lcags ri thang zhang | 632622205 | |
| Yartang Township (Ya'ertang) | 亚尔堂乡 | Yà'ěrtáng Xiāng | ཡར་ཐང་ཞང་། | yar thang zhang | 632622206 | |
| Dimda Township (Dengta) | 灯塔乡 | Dēngtǎ Xiāng | དྷི་མདའ་ཞང་། | dhi mda' zhang | 632622207 | |
Climate
| Climate data for Banma (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) | 15.9 (60.6) | 16.9 (62.4) | 19.4 (66.9) | 23.6 (74.5) | 26.1 (79.0) | 24.7 (76.5) | 28.6 (83.5) | 27.5 (81.5) | 26.3 (79.3) | 23.7 (74.7) | 15.9 (60.6) | 15.0 (59.0) | 28.6 (83.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.6 (38.5) | 5.7 (42.3) | 8.7 (47.7) | 12.4 (54.3) | 15.6 (60.1) | 18.0 (64.4) | 20.1 (68.2) | 20.1 (68.2) | 17.3 (63.1) | 12.1 (53.8) | 8.0 (46.4) | 4.6 (40.3) | 12.2 (53.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −7.0 (19.4) | −4.0 (24.8) | −0.1 (31.8) | 4.1 (39.4) | 7.7 (45.9) | 10.8 (51.4) | 12.4 (54.3) | 11.8 (53.2) | 9.1 (48.4) | 3.9 (39.0) | −2.0 (28.4) | −6.3 (20.7) | 3.4 (38.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.3 (4.5) | −11.9 (10.6) | −7.0 (19.4) | −2.5 (27.5) | 1.6 (34.9) | 5.5 (41.9) | 6.9 (44.4) | 6.2 (43.2) | 3.9 (39.0) | −1.5 (29.3) | −9.0 (15.8) | −14.2 (6.4) | −3.1 (26.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −27.1 (−16.8) | −26.2 (−15.2) | −18.9 (−2.0) | −15.7 (3.7) | −5.7 (21.7) | −2.8 (27.0) | −1.2 (29.8) | −3.8 (25.2) | −6.0 (21.2) | −11.5 (11.3) | −21.3 (−6.3) | −26.8 (−16.2) | −27.1 (−16.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5.0 (0.20) | 9.2 (0.36) | 19.0 (0.75) | 35.8 (1.41) | 85.8 (3.38) | 131.5 (5.18) | 112.0 (4.41) | 101.5 (4.00) | 103.0 (4.06) | 49.6 (1.95) | 6.8 (0.27) | 2.8 (0.11) | 662 (26.08) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.3 | 6.6 | 10.4 | 13.5 | 20.0 | 22.4 | 20.6 | 18.7 | 20.1 | 15.2 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 159.5 |
| Average snowy days | 6.5 | 9.3 | 14.9 | 13.5 | 5.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 10.0 | 7.5 | 4.7 | 73 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 46 | 46 | 51 | 55 | 61 | 69 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 67 | 53 | 46 | 59 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 196.7 | 177.5 | 198.8 | 211.1 | 198.4 | 167.7 | 188.2 | 190.5 | 164.9 | 171.9 | 198.4 | 204.2 | 2,268.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 62 | 57 | 53 | 54 | 46 | 39 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 49 | 64 | 66 | 52 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[6][7] | |||||||||||||