Guide County 贵德县 •ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) Guide County (light red) within Hainan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Guide Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates:35°59′20″N101°28′16″E / 35.989°N 101.471°E /35.989; 101.471 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Hainan |
| County seat | Qusib (Heyin) |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,504 km2 (1,353 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 5,011 m (16,440 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 2,710 m (8,890 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 105,645 |
| • Density | 30.15/km2 (78.09/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 贵德县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 貴德縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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Guide County (Chinese:贵德县,Tibetan:ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་།) is a county in the east ofQinghai Province, China. It is under the administration ofHainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In Tibetan it is known asTrika. In 2015 it had a population of 108,800, of which 37.8%Tibetans, and 16.1%other ethnic minorities.[2] In 2018 the population was 110,900.[3]
It is located along the Yellow River, surrounded by hilly terrain on either side of the river valley.[2]
Guide was first established during theYuan dynasty. The area became part ofMing Dynasty China in 1370.[citation needed] In 1953 it was placed under jurisdiction of Hainan prefecture.[4]
The city's earthen walls and buildings were built between 1375 and 1380. The city was enlarged in 1590. After the founding of the People's Republic, the moats were filled in and the North and South gates were pulled down, as well as the towers. In 2010 work commenced to restore the gates and towers.[5][additional citation(s) needed]
Guide is known in Qinghai as a fruit producing county, in particular for pear cultivation, as it has a relatively mild climate. TheLaxiwa Dam in Guide is the largest hydropower station on the upper reaches of the Yellow River.[3]
Guide governs over 4towns, 2townships, and 1ethnic township.[3][6] The county seat is in Qusib (Heyin).[2]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Qusib Town (Masib, Heyin) | 河阴镇 | Héyīn Zhèn | ཆུ་སྲིབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu srib grong brdal | 632523100 | |
| Qurub Town (Hexi) | 河西镇 | Héxī Zhèn | ཆུ་རུབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu rub grong brdal | 632523101 | |
| Lasêwa Town (Laxiwa) | 拉西瓦镇 | Lāxīwǎ Zhèn | ལ་ཟེ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | la ze ba grong brdal | 632523102 | |
| Changmar Town (Changmu) | 常牧镇 | Chángmù Zhèn | འཕྲང་དམར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'phrang dmar grong brdal | 632523103 | |
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| Quxar Township (Hedong) | 河东乡 | Hédōng Xiāng | ཆུ་ཤར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | chu shar yul tsho | 632523200 | |
| Garji Township (Garing, Garang) | 尕让乡 | Gǎràng Xiāng | དཀར་བརྗིད་ཞང་། | dkar brjid zhang | 632523202 | |
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| Gabroin Hui Ethnic Township (Gabroinxung, Xinjie) | 新街回族乡 | Xīnjiē Huízú Xiāng | ཀབ་རོན་ཧོས་རིགས་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kab ron hos rigs yul tsho | 632523201 | |
| Climate data for Guide, elevation 2,273 m (7,457 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.2 (57.6) | 18.4 (65.1) | 27.9 (82.2) | 35.0 (95.0) | 30.5 (86.9) | 32.9 (91.2) | 38.7 (101.7) | 35.6 (96.1) | 31.1 (88.0) | 25.6 (78.1) | 19.4 (66.9) | 12.9 (55.2) | 38.7 (101.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.9 (39.0) | 7.8 (46.0) | 13.3 (55.9) | 18.6 (65.5) | 21.6 (70.9) | 24.3 (75.7) | 26.5 (79.7) | 26.1 (79.0) | 21.5 (70.7) | 16.4 (61.5) | 10.7 (51.3) | 5.2 (41.4) | 16.3 (61.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −5.1 (22.8) | −1.0 (30.2) | 4.7 (40.5) | 10.3 (50.5) | 14.0 (57.2) | 17.2 (63.0) | 19.4 (66.9) | 18.9 (66.0) | 14.1 (57.4) | 7.8 (46.0) | 1.1 (34.0) | −4.0 (24.8) | 8.1 (46.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −11.8 (10.8) | −7.8 (18.0) | −2.2 (28.0) | 2.8 (37.0) | 6.7 (44.1) | 10.2 (50.4) | 12.7 (54.9) | 12.5 (54.5) | 8.6 (47.5) | 1.8 (35.2) | −5.4 (22.3) | −10.5 (13.1) | 1.5 (34.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −21.8 (−7.2) | −19.1 (−2.4) | −15.1 (4.8) | −9.2 (15.4) | −3.5 (25.7) | 1.3 (34.3) | 4.1 (39.4) | 3.2 (37.8) | −2.1 (28.2) | −12.0 (10.4) | −14.5 (5.9) | −20.2 (−4.4) | −21.8 (−7.2) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 0.5 (0.02) | 0.5 (0.02) | 2.7 (0.11) | 14.6 (0.57) | 32.7 (1.29) | 41.3 (1.63) | 50.5 (1.99) | 54.7 (2.15) | 42.7 (1.68) | 14.2 (0.56) | 2.1 (0.08) | 0.3 (0.01) | 256.8 (10.11) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.1 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 8.9 | 11.7 | 12.2 | 11.1 | 11.4 | 5.6 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 71.3 |
| Average snowy days | 2.2 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 11.2 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 42 | 39 | 38 | 42 | 51 | 58 | 60 | 61 | 66 | 61 | 50 | 46 | 51 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 215.9 | 209.1 | 241.8 | 255.2 | 258.9 | 238.7 | 250.5 | 252.6 | 209.3 | 225.5 | 226.1 | 220.6 | 2,804.2 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 69 | 67 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 55 | 57 | 61 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 64 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[7][8] | |||||||||||||
The Guide General Aviation Airport started construction in 2018.[9]
Guide County travel guide from Wikivoyage
Media related toGuide County at Wikimedia Commons
