Golog Prefecture 果洛州 ·མགོ་ལོག་ཁུལ། | |
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果洛藏族自治州 ·མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
 Eastern Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
 Location of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates:34°07′N99°19′E / 34.117°N 99.317°E /34.117; 99.317 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture seat | Maqên County (Dawu) |
| Area | |
• Total | 74,246 km2 (28,667 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 215,600 |
| • Density | 2.904/km2 (7.521/sq mi) |
| GDP[1] | |
| • Total | CN¥ 3.6 billion US$ 0.6 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 18,238 US$ 2,928 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-QH-26 |
| Website | www |
Golog (Golok[2] orGuoluo)Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese:果洛藏族自治州;pinyin:Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu;Tibetan:མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་,Wylie:Mgo-log Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) is anautonomous prefecture occupying the southeastern corner ofQinghai province,China. The prefecture has anarea of 76,312 km2 (29,464 sq mi) and itsseat is located inMaqên County. Due to its special geographical location and natural environment, the entire autonomous preference has been included in the Chinese largest natural environmental protection area — theSanjiangyuan National Park.[3]
Golog Prefecture is located in the southeastern part ofQinghai, in the upper basin of theYellow River.Gyaring Lake andNgoring Lake on the western edge of the prefecture are considered to be the source of theYellow River. However, these lakes do receive water from rivers that flow from locations even further west, inQumarleb County of theYushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
The lay of the land of the prefecture is largely determined by theAmne Machin mountain range (max elevation 6,282 m), which runs in the general northwest- to-southeast direction across the entire prefecture, and beyond. The existence of the ridge results in one of the great bends of theYellow River, which first flows for several hundreds of kilometers toward the east and southeast along through the entire Golog Prefecture, along the southern side of the Amne Machin Range, until it reaches the borders of Gansu and Sichuan; it and then turns almost 180 degrees and flows toward the northwest for 200–300 km (120–190 mi) through several prefectures of the northeastern Qinghai, forming a section of the northeastern border of the Golog prefecture.
Several sections of theSanjiangyuan ("Sources of Three Rivers") National Nature Reserve are within the prefecture.
| Climate data for Maqên County | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 10.1 (50.2) | 12.8 (55.0) | 17.8 (64.0) | 21.9 (71.4) | 22.5 (72.5) | 24.5 (76.1) | 26.3 (79.3) | 25.1 (77.2) | 25.2 (77.4) | 21.5 (70.7) | 12.8 (55.0) | 10.9 (51.6) | 26.3 (79.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.5 (31.1) | 1.6 (34.9) | 5.4 (41.7) | 9.5 (49.1) | 12.6 (54.7) | 14.8 (58.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 14.1 (57.4) | 9.1 (48.4) | 4.1 (39.4) | 0.7 (33.3) | 8.8 (47.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.9 (10.6) | −8.8 (16.2) | −4.0 (24.8) | 0.9 (33.6) | 5.0 (41.0) | 8.2 (46.8) | 10.2 (50.4) | 9.5 (49.1) | 6.4 (43.5) | 0.9 (33.6) | −6.3 (20.7) | −11.1 (12.0) | −0.1 (31.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −21.4 (−6.5) | −17.7 (0.1) | −11.6 (11.1) | −6.2 (20.8) | −1.3 (29.7) | 2.7 (36.9) | 4.6 (40.3) | 3.6 (38.5) | 1.1 (34.0) | −4.5 (23.9) | −13.8 (7.2) | −20.2 (−4.4) | −7.1 (19.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −33.1 (−27.6) | −31.9 (−25.4) | −29.1 (−20.4) | −20.0 (−4.0) | −12.8 (9.0) | −6.0 (21.2) | −4.0 (24.8) | −5.5 (22.1) | −7.5 (18.5) | −17.8 (0.0) | −26.6 (−15.9) | −33.1 (−27.6) | −33.1 (−27.6) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 2.8 (0.11) | 4.3 (0.17) | 8.2 (0.32) | 19.4 (0.76) | 55.3 (2.18) | 99.4 (3.91) | 115.1 (4.53) | 92.5 (3.64) | 79.5 (3.13) | 32.1 (1.26) | 3.5 (0.14) | 1.6 (0.06) | 513.7 (20.21) |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration,[4] | |||||||||||||
According to the 2000census, Guoluo has 137,940 inhabitants with a population density of 1.81 inhabitants/km2.
| Nationality | Population | Percentage |
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| Tibetan | 126,395 | 91.63% |
| Han | 9,096 | 6.59% |
| Hui | 1,529 | 1.11% |
| Salar | 329 | 0.24% |
| Tu | 302 | 0.22% |
| Others | 289 | 0.21% |
The prefecture is subdivided into sixcounty-level divisions: sixcounties:
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| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie Tibetan Pinyin | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) |
| 1 | Maqên County (Maqin County) | 玛沁县 | Mǎqìn Xiàn | རྨ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | rma chen rdzong Maqên Zong | 51,245 | 13,636 | 3.75 |
| 2 | Baima County (Banma County) | 班玛县 | Bānmǎ Xiàn | པད་མ་རྫོང་ | pad ma rdzong Baima Zong | 27,185 | 6,452 | 4.21 |
| 3 | Gadê County (Gande County) | 甘德县 | Gāndé Xiàn | དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང་ | dga' bde rdzong Gadê Zong | 34,840 | 7,143 | 4.87 |
| 4 | Darlag County (Dari County) | 达日县 | Dárì Xiàn | དར་ལག་རྫོང་ | dar lag rdzong Tarlag Zong | 30,995 | 15,385 | 2.01 |
| 5 | Jigzhi County (Jiuzhi County) | 久治县 | Jiǔzhì Xiàn | གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་རྫོང་ | gcig sgril rdzong Jigzhi Zong | 26,081 | 8,696 | 2.99 |
| 6 | Madoi County (Maduo County) | 玛多县 | Mǎduō Xiàn | རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང་ | rma stod rdzong Madoi Zong | 11,336 | 25,000 | 0.45 |
Construction forGuoluo Maqin Airport began in September 2012 and the airport opened on 1 July 2016.[5]
3,000 km (1,900 mi) of new roads are expected to be built by 2015.[6]
On 30 August 2017, a massive landslide buried nine people in Golok Machen region of north eastern Tibet.
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