Ngari Prefecture
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Ngari Prefecture
阿里地区 · མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ། Ali Prefecture | |
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ISO 3166 code | CN-XJ-25 |
Website | Ngari(Ali) Prefecture Government |
Ngari Prefecture (Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ་, Wylie: mnga' ris sa khul, ZYPY: ngari sakü) or Ali Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 阿里地区; traditional Chinese: 阿里地區; pinyin: Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Shiquanhe. It is one of the least densely populated areas in the world, with 0.3 people per kilometer (0.85 per mile).[citation needed]
History
Ngari was once the heart of the ancient kingdom of Guge. Later Ngari, along with Ü and Tsang, composed Ü-Tsang, one of the traditional provinces of Tibet, the others being Amdo and Kham.
The prefecture has close cultural links with
Geography and climate
The paved Xinjiang-Tibet Highway (新藏公路) passes through this area. There are well-known prehistoric petroglyphs near the far western town of Rutog.
The town of Ngari lies 4,500 metres (14,800 ft) above sea level in northwest Tibet some 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) west of the capital,
Ngari is best known for
Ngari has a
Climate data for Shiquanhe (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 6.4 (43.5) |
9.5 (49.1) |
14.5 (58.1) |
15.7 (60.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
25.2 (77.4) |
32.1 (89.8) |
26.4 (79.5) |
23.7 (74.7) |
16.7 (62.1) |
12.7 (54.9) |
7.1 (44.8) |
32.1 (89.8) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −4.0 (24.8) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
2.7 (36.9) |
8.1 (46.6) |
13.0 (55.4) |
18.5 (65.3) |
22.0 (71.6) |
20.8 (69.4) |
16.8 (62.2) |
8.8 (47.8) |
3.6 (38.5) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
9.0 (48.2) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.7 (10.9) |
−9.0 (15.8) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
0.9 (33.6) |
5.7 (42.3) |
11.3 (52.3) |
15.0 (59.0) |
14.2 (57.6) |
9.9 (49.8) |
1.3 (34.3) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−9.0 (15.8) |
1.6 (34.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.3 (−2.7) |
−16.6 (2.1) |
−12.3 (9.9) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
4.1 (39.4) |
8.5 (47.3) |
8.1 (46.6) |
2.8 (37.0) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−13.0 (8.6) |
−17.1 (1.2) |
−5.9 (21.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | −36.6 (−33.9) |
−30.2 (−22.4) |
−25.3 (−13.5) |
−17.9 (−0.2) |
−11.2 (11.8) |
−6.6 (20.1) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
−10.0 (14.0) |
−17.0 (1.4) |
−23.5 (−10.3) |
−32.9 (−27.2) |
−36.6 (−33.9) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.6 (0.06) |
1.7 (0.07) |
1.1 (0.04) |
1.3 (0.05) |
2.9 (0.11) |
5.8 (0.23) |
22.9 (0.90) |
25.3 (1.00) |
5.5 (0.22) |
1.7 (0.07) |
0.2 (0.01) |
0.6 (0.02) |
70.6 (2.78) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 7.0 | 8.7 | 3.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 31.3 |
Average snowy days | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 27.6 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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34 | 33 | 29 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 37 | 42 | 34 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 31 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 250.1 | 241.3 | 299.1 | 304.9 | 332.8 | 333.6 | 309.9 | 289.9 | 299.7 | 311.1 | 274.7 | 262.6 | 3,509.7 |
Percent possible sunshine | 78 | 77 | 80 | 78 | 77 | 78 | 72 | 71 | 82 | 90 | 88 | 85 | 80 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4][5] |
Subdivisions
Ngari Prefecture is subdivided into seven
# | Name | Chinese (S) | Hanyu Pinyin
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Tibetan
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Wylie | Tibetan pinyin | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) | |||
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1 | Gar County | 噶尔县 | Gá'ěr Xiàn | སྒར་རྫོང་། | sgar rdzong | Gar Zong | 16,901 | 13,179 | 1.28 | |||
2 | Burang County
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普兰县 | Pǔlán Xiàn | སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང་། | spu hreng rdzong | Burang Zong | 9,657 | 24,602 | 0.39 | |||
3 | Zanda County | 札达县 | Zhádá Xiàn | རྩ་མདའ་རྫོང་། | rtsa mda' rdzong | Zanda Zong | 6,883 | 18,083 | 0.38 | |||
4 | Rutog County | 日土县 | Rìtǔ Xiàn | རུ་ཐོག་རྫོང་། | ru thog rdzong | Rutog Zong | 9,738 | 77,096 | 0.12 | |||
5 | Gê'gyai County | 革吉县 | Géjí Xiàn | དགེ་རྒྱས་རྫོང་། | dge rgyas rdzong | Gê'gyai Zong | 15,483 | 46,117 | 0.33 | |||
6 | Gêrzê County
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改则县 | Gǎizé Xiàn | སྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | sger rtse rdzong | Gêrzê Zong | 22,177 | 135,025 | 0.16 | |||
7 | Coqên County | 措勤县 | Cuòqín Xiàn | མཚོ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | mtsho chen rdzong | Coqên Zong | 14,626 | 22,980 | 0.63 |
See also
Footnotes
- ^ "Kinnaur-Ngari Corridor: An Argument for The Revival of The Western Himalayan Silk Route - Himachal Watcher". 21 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ Tibet's fourth civil airport opens
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "55228: Shiquanhe (China)". ogimet.com. OGIMET. 27 March 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
Further reading
- Bellezza, John Vincent: Zhang Zhung. Foundations of Civilization in Tibet. A Historical and Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Monuments, Rock Art, Texts, and Oral Tradition of the Ancient Tibetan Upland. Denkschriften der phil.-hist. Klasse 368. Beitraege zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 61, Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2008.
- Ngari Prefecture Annals Editing Office (《阿里地区志》编辑室). 2009. Ngari Prefecture Annals. (in Chinese) (English language Table of Contents: pp. 1585-1600)
- Zeisler, Bettina. (2010). "East of the Moon and West of the Sun? Approaches to a Land with Many Names, North of Ancient India and South of Khotan." In: The Tibet Journal, Special issue. Autumn 2009 vol XXXIV n. 3-Summer 2010 vol XXXV n. 2. "The Earth Ox Papers", edited by Roberto Vitali, pp. 371–463.
External links
- Ngari
- Ngari (Tibet Online)
- 西藏阿里 ('Ngari, Tibet') (2002) (in Chinese)