Guinan County (Chinese: 贵南县; Tibetan: མང་ར་རྫོང་།) is a county in the east of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The seat of Guinan County is in the Town of Mangqu.
Guinan County 贵南县 • མང་ར་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Guinan County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Guinan Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 35°35′13″N 100°44′53″E / 35.587°N 100.748°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Hainan |
| County seat | Mangqu |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,647 km2 (2,566 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
| • Total | 71,841 |
| • Density | 11/km2 (28/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Guinan County | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 贵南县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 貴南縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | མང་ར་རྫོང་། or ཀོས་ནན་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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Administrative divisions
Guinan is made up of 3 towns and 3 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Mangqu Town | 茫曲镇 | Mángqǔ Zhèn | མང་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mang chu grong rdal | 632525100 | |
| Gomangxung Town (Guomaying) | 过马营镇 | Guòmǎyíng Zhèn | མགོ་མང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mgo mang grong rdal | 632525101 | |
| Sumdo Town (Senduo) | 森多镇 | Sēnduō Zhèn | སུམ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sum mdo grong rdal | 632525102 | |
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| Qamdo Township (Shagou) | 沙沟乡 | Shāgōu Xiāng | བྱ་མདོ་ཞང་། | bya mdo zhang | 632525200 | |
| Mangra Township (Mangla) | 茫拉乡 | Mánglā Xiāng | མང་ར་ཞང་། | mang ra zhang | 632525202 | |
| Tarxü Township (Taxiu) | 塔秀乡 | Tǎxiù Xiāng | ཐར་ཤུལ་ཞང་། | thar shul zhang | 632525203 | |
Climate
| Climate data for Guinan (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) | 16.1 (61.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 22.3 (72.1) | 27.7 (81.9) | 26.6 (79.9) | 27.9 (82.2) | 31.8 (89.2) | 31.2 (88.2) | 29.5 (85.1) | 22.4 (72.3) | 15.7 (60.3) | 13.0 (55.4) | 31.8 (89.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 0.1 (32.2) | 3.8 (38.8) | 8.2 (46.8) | 13.1 (55.6) | 16.2 (61.2) | 18.7 (65.7) | 21.0 (69.8) | 21.0 (69.8) | 17.1 (62.8) | 11.8 (53.2) | 6.5 (43.7) | 1.6 (34.9) | 11.6 (52.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.6 (12.9) | −6.3 (20.7) | −1.0 (30.2) | 4.8 (40.6) | 8.9 (48.0) | 12.0 (53.6) | 14.0 (57.2) | 13.4 (56.1) | 9.2 (48.6) | 2.8 (37.0) | −4.4 (24.1) | −9.7 (14.5) | 2.8 (37.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −17.9 (−0.2) | −13.8 (7.2) | −8.2 (17.2) | −2.6 (27.3) | 2.1 (35.8) | 5.9 (42.6) | 8.0 (46.4) | 7.3 (45.1) | 3.6 (38.5) | −3.2 (26.2) | −11.2 (11.8) | −16.9 (1.6) | −3.9 (25.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −28.9 (−20.0) | −27.2 (−17.0) | −21.6 (−6.9) | −15.7 (3.7) | −6.7 (19.9) | −2.5 (27.5) | −0.1 (31.8) | −1.2 (29.8) | −5.8 (21.6) | −14.9 (5.2) | −22.4 (−8.3) | −27.3 (−17.1) | −28.9 (−20.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.2 (0.09) | 3.4 (0.13) | 8.5 (0.33) | 22.9 (0.90) | 61.9 (2.44) | 80.5 (3.17) | 100.2 (3.94) | 96.6 (3.80) | 59.6 (2.35) | 19.7 (0.78) | 2.6 (0.10) | 1.5 (0.06) | 459.6 (18.09) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.0 | 2.5 | 4.4 | 6.8 | 13.0 | 16.4 | 17.1 | 15.2 | 13.4 | 7.0 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 101.9 |
| Average snowy days | 3.7 | 3.6 | 5.8 | 6.6 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 31.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 39 | 39 | 45 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 69 | 69 | 59 | 47 | 43 | 53 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 222.0 | 211.1 | 237.8 | 242.4 | 237.1 | 211.7 | 226.0 | 228.9 | 193.6 | 226.1 | 229.7 | 226.6 | 2,693 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 71 | 68 | 63 | 61 | 54 | 49 | 51 | 55 | 53 | 66 | 75 | 75 | 62 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||