Tianjun County 天峻县 ·ᠲᠢᠶᠡᠨ ᠵᠢᠶᠦ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠠ·ཐེམ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། Têmqên | |
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.png) Location of Tianjun County (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Tianjun Location of the city centre in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates:37°55′N98°39′E / 37.917°N 98.650°E /37.917; 98.650 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haixi |
| County seat | Xinyuan |
| Area | |
• Total | 25,989 km2 (10,034 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 23,203 |
| • Density | 0.89/km2 (2.3/sq mi) |
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| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 天峻县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 天峻縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཐེམ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠲᠢᠶᠡᠨ ᠵᠢᠶᠦ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠠ | ||||||
Tianjun County, in Tibetan Themchen, is a county ofQinghai Province, China, borderingGansu Province to the north. It is under the administration of theHaixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The county seat in Xinyuan Town.
Tianjun County is divided into 3towns and 7townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Mongolian (traditional script) | Mongolian (Cyrillic) | Administrative division code |
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| Xinyuan Town (Xêyoin) | 新源镇 | Xīnyuán Zhèn | ཤེས་ཡོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | shes yon grong rdal | 632823100 | ||
| Muri Town (Muli, Mêri) | 木里镇 | Mùlǐ Zhèn | མེ་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | me ri grong rdal | 632823101 | ||
| Jianghe Town (Jongqu) | 江河镇 | Jiānghé Zhèn | ཅོང་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | cong chu grong rdal | 632823102 | ||
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| Karmar Township (Kuai'erma) | 快尔玛乡 | Kuài'ěrmǎ Xiāng | མཁར་དམར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | mkhar dmar yul tsho | 632823200 | ||
| Zhugkyung Township (Zhouqun) | 舟群乡 | Zhōuqún Xiāng | འབྲུག་ཁྱུང་ཤང་། | 'brug khyung shang | 632823201 | ||
| Chagmar Township (Zhihema) | 织合玛乡 | Zhīhémǎ Xiāng | བྲག་དམར་ཤང་། | brag dmar shang | 632823202 | ||
| Sur Township (Suru, Suli) | 苏里乡 | Sūlǐ Xiāng | སུ་རུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | su ru yul tsho | 632823203 | ||
| Sênggê Township (Sengge, Shengge) | 生格乡 | Shēnggé Xiāng | སེང་གེ་ཤང་། | seng ge shang | 632823204 | ||
| Yangkêng Township (Yangkang) | 阳康乡 | Yángkāng Xiāng | གཡང་ཁེངས་ཤང་། | g.yang khengs shang | 632823205 | ||
| Lungmar Township (Longmen) | 龙门乡 | Lóngmén Xiāng | ལུང་དམར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | lung dmar yul tsho | 632823206 | ||
| Climate data for Tianjun, elevation 3,417 m (11,211 ft), (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −3.6 (25.5) | −0.4 (31.3) | 4.0 (39.2) | 9.4 (48.9) | 12.9 (55.2) | 15.5 (59.9) | 17.7 (63.9) | 17.5 (63.5) | 14.0 (57.2) | 8.5 (47.3) | 2.6 (36.7) | −2.0 (28.4) | 8.0 (46.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −12.9 (8.8) | −9.7 (14.5) | −4.9 (23.2) | 1.2 (34.2) | 5.3 (41.5) | 8.8 (47.8) | 11.1 (52.0) | 10.6 (51.1) | 6.5 (43.7) | −0.2 (31.6) | −6.6 (20.1) | −11.1 (12.0) | −0.2 (31.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.7 (−5.3) | −17.7 (0.1) | −12.7 (9.1) | −6.6 (20.1) | −1.8 (28.8) | 2.7 (36.9) | 5.4 (41.7) | 4.8 (40.6) | 0.9 (33.6) | −6.8 (19.8) | −13.7 (7.3) | −18.3 (−0.9) | −7.0 (19.3) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 1.4 (0.06) | 1.8 (0.07) | 6.4 (0.25) | 13.1 (0.52) | 47.7 (1.88) | 79.0 (3.11) | 96.7 (3.81) | 85.7 (3.37) | 44.2 (1.74) | 8.8 (0.35) | 1.5 (0.06) | 0.4 (0.02) | 386.7 (15.24) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.1 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 6.8 | 11.3 | 16.5 | 18.4 | 17.0 | 11.5 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 96.2 |
| Average snowy days | 3.2 | 3.8 | 6.6 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 44.4 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 39 | 37 | 37 | 42 | 55 | 65 | 70 | 70 | 67 | 51 | 37 | 36 | 51 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 240.6 | 232.8 | 263.8 | 266.4 | 258.8 | 226.9 | 233.6 | 229.9 | 220.4 | 262.2 | 249.5 | 242.2 | 2,927.1 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 78 | 75 | 70 | 67 | 59 | 52 | 53 | 55 | 60 | 77 | 83 | 82 | 68 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||
The county is served by theQinghai–Tibet Railway; itsTianjun railway station is located near the county seat, Xinyuan Town.
Large coalfields are worked near Muli Town in the northern part of the county, at the elevation around 4,000 m above the sea level.[4] The Muli coal fields are connected with theHa'ergai railway station on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway by a 195 km (121 mi) long branch railway, whose two sections are known as the Tsaidar Railway (柴达尔铁路) and the Tsaidar-Muli Railway (柴木铁路).
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