Bayi District
Bayi
巴宜区 • བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས། Chagyib, Nyingchi | |
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Tibetan | བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས། | ||||||
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Bayi or Chagyib District (巴宜区 or བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས།), formerly Nyingchi County, is a
, the administrative capital of Nyingchi, is located within the district.Geography
Bayi is located in the middle reaches of the
There are many scenic places in or near Bayi.
"The Seche La Mountain Scenic Spot, in the east of Nyingchi County, is a part of the Nyainqentanglha Mountain Range, the watershed of the Nyang River and the Polung Zangbo River. The Sichuan-Tibetan Highway passes by. Standing at the mountain pass at 4,728 meters above sea level, one can admire the sunrise, sea of clouds, endless forest and the grand Namjagbarwa Peak."[3]
Güncang township and Pelung Township by the Sichuan-Tibet Highway are home to the Moinba ethnic group.[4]
Administrative divisions
Bayi District contains 2 subdistricts, 4 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin
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Tibetan
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Wylie | Population (2010)[5] | Notes |
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Subdistricts | ||||||
Baimagang Subdistrict | 白玛岗街道 | Báimǎgǎng Jiēdào | པད་མ་སྒང་ཁྲོམ་ལམ་། | pad ma sgang khrom lam | split from Chagyib Town in 2016. | |
Jomo Subdistrict | 觉木街道 | Juémù Jiēdào | ཇོ་མོ་ཁྲོམ་ལམ་། | jo mo khrom lam | split from Chagyib Town in 2016. | |
Towns | ||||||
Nyingchi Town | 林芝镇 | Línzhī zhèn | ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nying khri grong rdal | 3,267 | |
Bêba Town | 百巴镇 | Bǎibā zhèn | སྤྲེ་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | spre pa grong rdal | 3,748 | |
Chagyib Town (Bayi) |
八一镇 | Bāyī zhèn | བྲག་ཡིབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | brag yib grong rdal | 39,110 | Former Bayi Subdistrict |
Lunang Town
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鲁朗镇 | Lǔlǎng zhèn | ཀླུ་ནང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | klu nang grong rdal | 1,588 | |
Townships | ||||||
Puqu Township | 布久乡 | Bùjiǔ xiāng | བུ་ཆུ་ཤང་། | bu chu shang | 3,128 | |
Mairi Township | 米瑞乡 | Mǐruì xiāng | སྨད་རི་ཤང་། | smad ri shang | 2,247 | |
Ethnic township | ||||||
Güncang Monba Ethnic Township | 更章门巴族乡 | Gēngzhāng Ménbāzú xiāng | དགུན་ཚང་མོན་པ་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། | dgun tshang mon pa mi rigs shang | 1,614 |
Culture
Buchu Monastery is located about 28 km (17 mi) south of Bayi Town. Lamaling Monastery is located in Puqu Township.[6]
"The
Climate
Bayi District has a mild
Climate data for Nyingchi County (1971−2000) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.3 (46.9) |
9.5 (49.1) |
13.0 (55.4) |
16.4 (61.5) |
19.2 (66.6) |
21.4 (70.5) |
22.1 (71.8) |
22.0 (71.6) |
20.3 (68.5) |
17.3 (63.1) |
13.4 (56.1) |
9.8 (49.6) |
16.1 (60.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5 (23) |
−2.7 (27.1) |
0.6 (33.1) |
3.4 (38.1) |
6.7 (44.1) |
10.3 (50.5) |
11.5 (52.7) |
11.0 (51.8) |
9.5 (49.1) |
5.3 (41.5) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
3.8 (38.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.6 (0.06) |
4.4 (0.17) |
17.0 (0.67) |
47.1 (1.85) |
74.3 (2.93) |
125.2 (4.93) |
133.9 (5.27) |
123.3 (4.85) |
114.6 (4.51) |
39.9 (1.57) |
5.3 (0.21) |
1.4 (0.06) |
688.0 (27.09) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.8 | 6.0 | 11.5 | 17.3 | 19.6 | 23.0 | 22.8 | 21.5 | 22.2 | 14.0 | 4.0 | 1.7 | 166.4 |
Source: Weather China |
Transport
Plans exist for the construction of a railway from Lhasa to Nyingchi. Construction work is expected to start in September 2014, and to take 6 years.[8]
Gallery
References
- ^ "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.
- ^ a b "Tibet travel guide of Nyingchi Region, Bayi Town". Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
- ^ a b c "The Seche La Mountain Scenic Spot". Tibet Travel Service, Tibet Tour. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
- ^ "Moinba Ethnic Group and its customs". Tibet Travel Guide-Let's Travel Tibet. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
- ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.
- ^ "Puqu Lama Ling Monastery". Tibet Travel Guide-Let's Travel Tibet. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
- ^ "Benri Mountain". At0086.com. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
- ^ 拉萨至林芝铁路预计今年九月开建. huochepiao.com. 2014-01-15. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014. (Construction of the Lhasa-Nyingchi railway is planned to start in September of this year), 2014-1-15