Shangri-La City
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Shangri-La
香格里拉市 · སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | ||
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Postal code 674400 | ||
Area code | 0887 | |
Website | xianggelila |
Shangri-La City | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Tibetan | སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ། | ||||||
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Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China. It is the capital and largest city of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is bordered by the city of Lijiang to the south and Sichuan province to the northwest, north, and east.
Name
The city was originally a county named Zhongdian (中甸县; Zhōngdiàn Xiàn); the Tibetan population referred to the area by its traditional name Gyalthang (
In the early morning of 11 January 2014, a fire broke out in the 1,000-year-old Dukezong Tibetan neighborhood. About 242 homes and shops were destroyed and 2,600 residents were displaced.[3] About half of the old town was destroyed by the fire, while the other half was spared. After the fire, residents were allowed back to their homes and shops. By the end of 2014 rebuilding had started and tourism started to return. Tourism was generally not affected by the fire, since the main sights in the old town, such as the prayer wheel and temples, were not damaged. Many of the other main sights are located outside of the old town.
Demographics and languages
The southern half of the city is inhabited by the
Administrative divisions
Shangri-La city has 4 towns, 6 townships and 1 ethnic township.[4]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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Towns | ||||||
Gyalthang Town (Jiantang) |
建塘镇 | Jiàntáng zhèn | རྒྱལ་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rgyal thang grong rdal | 533401101 | |
Yangthang Town (Xiaozhongdian) |
小中甸镇 (洋塘镇) |
Xiǎozhōngdiàn zhèn | ཡང་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | yang thang grong rdal | 533401102 | |
Hutiaoxia Town | 虎跳峡镇 | Hǔtiàoxiá zhèn | 533401103 | |||
Jinjiang Town | 金江镇 | Jīnjiāng zhèn | 533401104 | |||
Townships | ||||||
Shangjiang Township | 上江乡 | Shàngjiāng xiāng | 533401201 | |||
Luoji Township
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洛吉乡 | Luòjí xiāng | 533401203 | |||
Nyishar Township (Nixi) |
尼西乡 | Níxī xiāng | ནོར་སྐྱིད་ཞང་། | nyi shar zhang | 533401204 | |
Ketsak Township (Gezan) |
格咱乡 | Gézán xiāng | སྐད་ཚག་ཤང་། | skad tshag shang | 533401205 | |
Dorwarong Township (Torwarong, Dongwang) |
东旺乡 | Dōngwàng xiāng | གཏོར་བ་རོང་ཤང་། | gtor ba rong shang | 533401206 | |
Rongpagyurnga Township (Wujing) |
五境乡 | Wǔjìng xiāng | རོང་པ་སྒྱུར་ལྔ་ཤང་། | rong pa sgyur lnga shang | 533401207 | |
Ethnic township | ||||||
Sanba Naxi Ethnic Township | 三坝纳西族乡 | Sānbà Nàxīzú xiāng | 533401202 |
Climate
Shangri-La has either a dry-winter, warm-summer
Climate data for Shangri-La (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 20.4 (68.7) |
18.2 (64.8) |
21.5 (70.7) |
22.7 (72.9) |
24.2 (75.6) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.5 (77.9) |
23.8 (74.8) |
20.9 (69.6) |
18.8 (65.8) |
17.9 (64.2) |
26.0 (78.8) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.9 (44.4) |
7.8 (46.0) |
9.9 (49.8) |
13.0 (55.4) |
16.8 (62.2) |
19.7 (67.5) |
19.4 (66.9) |
19.2 (66.6) |
17.9 (64.2) |
14.9 (58.8) |
11.6 (52.9) |
8.9 (48.0) |
13.8 (56.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.0 (28.4) |
0.1 (32.2) |
3.0 (37.4) |
6.1 (43.0) |
10.1 (50.2) |
13.8 (56.8) |
14.0 (57.2) |
13.5 (56.3) |
12.1 (53.8) |
7.6 (45.7) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
6.6 (43.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −9.2 (15.4) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
0.6 (33.1) |
4.6 (40.3) |
9.4 (48.9) |
10.6 (51.1) |
10.1 (50.2) |
8.5 (47.3) |
2.3 (36.1) |
−4.6 (23.7) |
−8.9 (16.0) |
1.2 (34.2) |
Record low °C (°F) | −23.9 (−11.0) |
−20.5 (−4.9) |
−17.5 (0.5) |
−10 (14) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
1.1 (34.0) |
1.0 (33.8) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
−11.1 (12.0) |
−16.5 (2.3) |
−27.4 (−17.3) |
−27.4 (−17.3) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 12.2 (0.48) |
14.6 (0.57) |
30.6 (1.20) |
26.9 (1.06) |
44.5 (1.75) |
72.0 (2.83) |
159.9 (6.30) |
155.5 (6.12) |
80.1 (3.15) |
32.8 (1.29) |
8.7 (0.34) |
3.5 (0.14) |
641.3 (25.23) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 5.4 | 5.9 | 9.8 | 10.0 | 11.9 | 15.5 | 22.3 | 23.0 | 17.8 | 9.7 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 135.7 |
Average snowy days | 9.4 | 11.4 | 13.2 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 48 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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57 | 59 | 62 | 64 | 66 | 70 | 78 | 79 | 77 | 70 | 61 | 55 | 67 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 239.3 | 208.6 | 202.1 | 184.7 | 189.9 | 150.3 | 108.1 | 120.3 | 127.7 | 189.7 | 228.3 | 253.7 | 2,202.7 |
Percent possible sunshine | 73 | 65 | 54 | 48 | 45 | 36 | 26 | 30 | 35 | 54 | 71 | 79 | 51 |
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[5][6] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Weather China[7] |
National park
- Three Parallel Rivers of YunnanProtected Areas World Heritage Site.
Transport
- Shangri-La railway station on Lijiang–Shangri-La railway opened on 26 November 2023.[8] It takes 1h 20min to reach Lijiang by train, and about 5h to the provincial capital Kunming.[9]
- The city's airport is Diqing Shangri-La Airport. Covering an area of 225 hectares, it is one of the biggest airports in the northwest of Yunnan. There are flights to Kunming, Chengdu, Lhasa, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
- Taking a long-distance bus is also a major means to get to Shangri-La. It takes about four hours to get to Shangri-La from Lijiang by bus. Tourists who rent a car for the trip can also visit the Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hutiaoxia, 虎跳峡) and the First Bend of Yangtze River on the way.[10]
- Many travelers use the county town as a gateway into Pudacuo National Park, and Tiger Leaping Gorge.
- China National Highway 214
See also
- Shangri-La
- Shangri-La Beer
- Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas– UNESCO World Heritage Site
References
- ^ "Shangri-La (Xiānggélǐlā 香格里拉), chef-lieu de la préfecture autonome tibétaine de Diqing, Yunnan (Yúnnán 云南)". channaryetfrancoisashanghai.net (in French). Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "迪庆州第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Diqing Prefecture. 27 May 2021.
- ^ "Night fire burns for hours, destroys ancient Tibetan town in southwest China's Shangri-La county". Toledo Blade. 11 January 2014.
- ^ "国家统计局" (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ 1981–2010 extremes 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ 1991–2020 normals "Climate averages from 1991 to 2020". China Meteorological Administration. 24 April 2023. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023.
- ^ 1971–2000 extremes 香格里拉 – 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "丽香铁路 11月26日开通运营".
丽江至香格里拉铁路(以下简称丽香铁路)将于11月26日建成通车
- ^ "丽香铁路通车 动车直达"吉祥如意的地方". Xinhua. 26 November 2023.
- ^ "Shangri-la Transportation" ChinaTour.net Accessed 9 May 2014
Further reading
- Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2011). China's Ancient Tea Horse Road. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B005DQV7Q2
- Holas, Ashild. "Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition: A Place Called Shangrila" (Routledge Contemporary China Series). ISBN 8173871094, 9788173871092.