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Gannan Prefecture 甘南州 ·ཀན་ལྷོ་ཁུལ། | |
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| Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州 ·ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། | |
 Labrang Monastery, Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
.png) Location of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture withinGansu | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Prefecture Seat | Hezuo |
| Government | |
| • Type | Autonomous prefecture |
| • CCP Secretary | Yu Chenghui |
| • Congress Chairman | Tashi Cao |
| • Governor | Zhao Lingyun |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Rinchen Thondup |
| Area | |
• Total | 40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi) |
| Population (2010[citation needed]) | |
• Total | 689,132 |
| • Density | 16.850/km2 (43.641/sq mi) |
| • Major Ethnic Groups | Tibetan−51.44% Han−41.75% Hui−6.43% |
| GDP[1] | |
| • Total | CN¥ 12.7 billion US$ 2.0 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 17,990 US$ 2,888 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-GS-30 |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 甘南藏族自治州 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘南藏族自治州 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། | ||||||||||
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Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese:甘南藏族自治州;pinyin:Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu;Tibetan:ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་,Wylie:Kan-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul,ZWPY:Gainlho Poirig Ranggyong Kü) is anautonomous prefecture in southernGansu Province, China, borderingLinxia to the north,Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east andAba (Sichuan province) to the south. It includesXiahe and theLabrang Monastery, Luqu, Maqu and other mostly Tibetan towns and villages. Gannan has an area of 40,898 km2 (15,791 sq mi) and its capital isHezuo city (Zoi). In the first year of the proclamation of Gannan Autonomous District, the district-seat was at the Labrang Town ofSangqu.
According to the2010 census, Gannan has 689,132 inhabitants[2] (population density: 17.14 inhabitants per km2).
| Nationality | Population | Percentage |
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| Tibetan | 329,278 | 51.44% |
| Han | 267,260 | 41.75% |
| Hui | 41,163 | 6.43% |
| Tu | 939 | 0.15% |
| Dongxiang | 258 | 0.04% |
| Manchu | 257 | 0.04% |
| Salar | 222 | 0.03% |
| Mongols | 215 | 0.03% |
| Others | 514 | 0.09% |
HighwayG213 runs through this prefecture. In 2013, theGannan Xiahe Airport was opened.
1 county level city, 7 counties.
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 ※ ＊ ＊ Lianhuashan National Nature Reserve Note: Lianhuashan National Nature Reserve is part ofLintan County. | |||||||
| Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie Tibetan Pinyin | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) |
| Hezuo City (Zoi City) | 合作市 | Hézuò Shì | གཙོས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | gtsos grong khyer Zoi Chongkyir | 90,290 | 2,670 | 33.81 |
| Lintan County | 临潭县 | Líntán Xiàn | ལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་། | lin than rdzong Lintain Zong | 137,001 | 1,557 | 87.99 |
| Jonê County (Zhuoni County) | 卓尼县 | Zhuóní Xiàn | ཅོ་ནེ་རྫོང་། | co ne rdzong Jonê Zong | 100,522 | 5,694 | 17.65 |
| Zhouqu County (Zhugqu County) | 舟曲县 | Zhōuqū Xiàn | འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | 'brug chu rdzong Zhugqu Zong | 132,108 | 3,010 | 43.88 |
| Têwo County (Diebu County) | 迭部县 | Diébù Xiàn | ཐེ་བོ་རྫོང་། | the bo rdzong Têwo Zong | 52,166 | 5,108 | 10.21 |
| Maqu County | 玛曲县 | Mǎqū Xiàn | རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | rma chu rdzong Maqu Zong | 54,745 | 10,190 | 6.72 |
| Luqu County | 碌曲县 | Lùqū Xiàn | ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | klu chu rdzong Gluqu Zong | 35,630 | 5,298 | 6.72 |
| Xiahe County (Sangqu County) | 夏河县 | Xiàhé Xiàn | བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | bsang chu rdzong Sangqu Zong | 86,670 | 6,674 | 12.98 |
Gannan, as illustrated by this chart for Xiahe, has an alpinesubarctic climate (KöppenDwc) that grades into an alpine climate (ETH) at the highest elevations. The climate is characterised by mild, rainy summers and frigid, but dry and sunny, winters.
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5 (41) | 7 (45) | 10 (50) | 13 (55) | 17 (63) | 21 (70) | 19 (66) | 17 (63) | 15 (59) | 9 (48) | 8 (46) | 5 (41) | 12 (54) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −18 (0) | −16 (3) | −12 (10) | −8 (18) | −6 (21) | −2 (28) | 3 (37) | 1 (34) | −3 (27) | −7 (19) | −12 (10) | −16 (3) | −8 (18) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 6 (0.2) | 15 (0.6) | 14 (0.6) | 62 (2.4) | 101 (4.0) | 105 (4.1) | 174 (6.9) | 120 (4.7) | 139 (5.5) | 44 (1.7) | 9 (0.4) | 3 (0.1) | 792 (31.2) |
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