Zadoi County (Tibetan: རྫ་སྟོད་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 杂多县) is a county in the southwest of Qinghai Province, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. It is under the administration of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The county seat is in the Town of Qapugtang.
Zadoi County 杂多县 · རྫ་སྟོད་རྫོང་། Dzatö, Dzatoe, Zaduo | |
|---|---|
.png) Location of Zadoi County (red) within Yushu Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Zadoi Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 32°53′36″N 95°18′03″E / 32.8932°N 95.3007°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Yushu |
| County seat | Qapugtang |
| Area | |
| • Total | 35,000 km2 (14,000 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 68,759 |
| • Density | 2.0/km2 (5.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 815399 |
| Website | www |
| Zadoi County | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杂多县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 雜多縣 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | རྫ་སྟོད་རྫོང་། | ||||||
| |||||||
Administrative divisions
Zadoi County is divided to 1 town and 7 townships.[2]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town | ||||||
| Qapugtang Town (Sahuteng) | 萨呼腾镇 | Sàhūténg Zhèn | བྱ་ཕུག་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | bya phug thang grong brdal | 632722100 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Namsai Township (Angsai) | 昂赛乡 | Ángsài Xiāng | གནམ་སྲས་ཞང་། | gnam sras zhang | 632722200 | |
| Gyêdoi Township (Jieduo) | 结多乡 | Jiéduō Xiāng | ལྕི་སྟོད་ཞང་། | gnam sras zhang | 632722201 | |
| Adoi Township (Aduo) | 阿多乡 | Āduō Xiāng | ཨ་སྟོད་ཞང་། | a stod zhang | 632722202 | |
| Qirug Township (Suru, Surug) | 苏鲁乡 | Sūlǔ Xiāng | ཕྱི་རུག་ཞང་། | phyi rug zhang | 632722203 | |
| Chadam Township (Chadan) | 查旦乡 | Chádàn Xiāng | ཁྲ་འདམ་ཞང་། | khra 'dam zhang | 632722204 | |
| Mugxung Township (Moyun) | 莫云乡 | Mòyún Xiāng | སྨུག་གཞུང་ཞང་། | smug gzhung zhang | 632722205 | |
| Zaqên Township (Zhaqing) | 扎青乡 | Zhāqīng Xiāng | རྫ་ཆེན་ཞང་། | rdza chen zhang | 632722206 | |
Climate
| Climate data for Zadoi (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.2 (52.2) | 10.1 (50.2) | 15.1 (59.2) | 17.4 (63.3) | 23.4 (74.1) | 25.2 (77.4) | 25.6 (78.1) | 24.5 (76.1) | 22.1 (71.8) | 19.5 (67.1) | 12.7 (54.9) | 9.3 (48.7) | 25.6 (78.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −1.8 (28.8) | 0.9 (33.6) | 4.8 (40.6) | 9.1 (48.4) | 12.9 (55.2) | 15.9 (60.6) | 18.5 (65.3) | 18.4 (65.1) | 15.5 (59.9) | 9.5 (49.1) | 4.2 (39.6) | 0.4 (32.7) | 9.0 (48.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.1 (13.8) | −6.8 (19.8) | −2.7 (27.1) | 1.6 (34.9) | 5.6 (42.1) | 9.3 (48.7) | 11.6 (52.9) | 11.2 (52.2) | 8.1 (46.6) | 2.0 (35.6) | −4.1 (24.6) | −8.5 (16.7) | 1.4 (34.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −16.9 (1.6) | −13.7 (7.3) | −9.1 (15.6) | −4.5 (23.9) | 0.0 (32.0) | 4.4 (39.9) | 6.4 (43.5) | 5.9 (42.6) | 3.2 (37.8) | −3.1 (26.4) | −10.2 (13.6) | −15.4 (4.3) | −4.4 (24.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −34.4 (−29.9) | −31.3 (−24.3) | −26.2 (−15.2) | −17.8 (0.0) | −12.3 (9.9) | −6.6 (20.1) | −4.4 (24.1) | −7.7 (18.1) | −8.1 (17.4) | −22.1 (−7.8) | −25.5 (−13.9) | −34.9 (−30.8) | −34.9 (−30.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 9.4 (0.37) | 7.8 (0.31) | 10.3 (0.41) | 18.0 (0.71) | 56.8 (2.24) | 122.4 (4.82) | 106.2 (4.18) | 96.5 (3.80) | 76.2 (3.00) | 28.0 (1.10) | 4.4 (0.17) | 3.9 (0.15) | 539.9 (21.26) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.8 | 6.4 | 8.3 | 11.2 | 17.9 | 23.0 | 21.1 | 20.4 | 19.7 | 12.2 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 155.2 |
| Average snowy days | 8.6 | 8.5 | 11.3 | 14.3 | 13.3 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 12.8 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 86.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 48 | 44 | 44 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 60 | 47 | 42 | 55 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 173.9 | 163.4 | 182.3 | 202.4 | 212.0 | 190.4 | 218.6 | 210.0 | 199.8 | 212.1 | 207.2 | 185.4 | 2,357.5 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 54 | 52 | 49 | 52 | 49 | 45 | 51 | 51 | 55 | 61 | 67 | 60 | 54 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
