Bairi County 天祝藏族自治县 ·དཔའ་རིས་རྫོང་ Tianzhu | |
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| དཔའ་རིས་བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང༌། ·天祝藏族自治县 Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County | |
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.png) Bairi County (red) within Wuwei City (yellow) and Gansu | |
  Bairi County Location in Gansu Show map of Gansu Bairi County Bairi County (China) Show map of China | |
| Coordinates:36°58′18″N103°08′31″E / 36.9718°N 103.1419°E /36.9718; 103.1419 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Prefecture-level city | Wuwei |
| County seat | Rabgyai (Huazangsi) |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,149 km2 (2,760 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 4,874 m (15,991 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 2,040 m (6,690 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 151,031 |
| • Density | 21.13/km2 (54.72/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 733200 |
| Website | www |
| Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 天祝藏族自治县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 天祝藏族自治縣 | ||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 华锐 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 華銳 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | དཔའ་རིས་བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང༌། | ||||||
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Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County (Tibetan:དཔའ་རིས་བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང༌།), also known asTianzhu from its Chinese name (Chinese:天祝藏族自治县), is in theprefecture-level city ofWuwei in the central part ofGansu province, China, borderingQinghai province to the south and west. It has an area of 7,147 km2 (2,759 sq mi) and approximately 230,000 inhabitants (2003). Its administrative seat isRabgyai Town (Huazangsi).
The Chinese name "Tianzhu" was named by a Tibetan lamaLuo Haoxue (罗好学) in 1936, deriving from the combination of "Tiantang" (天堂寺, akaChortentang Monastery) and "Zhugong" (祝贡寺, akaDrigung Monastery), the Chinese translation of the two largest lamaseries in the county.[2]
The Tibetan name Bairi (དཔའ་རིས།) is pronouncedBairi inStandard Tibetan, and pronouncedHwari in the localAmdo Tibetan andHuarui (华锐) in Chinese.[3]
An alternative Tibetan name isTenzhu (ཐེན་ཀྲུའུ།), which is a transcription of the Chinese name Tianzhu.
The county was established as the Tianzhu District ofYongdeng County in 1949, but became an autonomous county ofWuwei in the next year. In 1955, Tianzhu was moved under the administration ofZhangye as the firstautonomous county in China.[3] Between 1958 and 1961,Gulang County was part of Tianzhu. In 1961 the county was placed under Wuwei again.[4]
Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County is divided to 14towns, 5townships.[4][5]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Rabgyai Town (Huazangsi) | 华藏寺镇 | Huázàngsì Zhèn | རབ་རྒྱས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rab rgyas grong rdal | 620623100 | |
| Zhaxilung Town (Dachaigou) | 打柴沟镇 | Dǎcháigōu Zhèn | བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bkra shis lung grong rdal | 620623101 | |
| Tawain Town (Anyuan) | 安远镇 | Ānyuǎn Zhèn | ཏཱ་བན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tā ban grong rdal | 620623102 | |
| Kêsangnyagkai Town (Tanshanling) | 炭山岭镇 | Tànshānlǐng Zhèn | ཁེས་བཟང་ཉག་གའི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khes bzang nyag gaʼi grong rdal | 620623103 | |
| Pachi Town (Haxi) | 哈溪镇 | Hāxī Zhèn | ཕ་ཁྲི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | pha khri grong rdal | 620623104 | |
| Sêrzü Town (Saishisi) | 赛什斯镇 | Sàishísī Zhèn | སེར་རྩུད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ser rtsud grong rdal | 620623105 | |
| Yarlung Town (Shimen) | 石门镇 | Shímén Zhèn | ཡར་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | yar lung grong rdal | 620623106 | |
| Daglung Town (Songshan) | 松山镇 | Sōngshān Zhèn | སྟག་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stag lung grong rdal | 620623107 | |
| Qoidêntang Town (Tiantang) | 天堂镇 | Tiāntáng Zhèn | མཆོད་རྟེན་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mchod rten thang grong rdal | 620623108 | |
| Torxi Town (Duoshi) | 朵什镇 | Duǒshí Zhèn | དོར་ཞི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dor zhi grong rdal | 620623109 | |
| Xamar Town (Xidatan) | 西大滩镇 | Xīdàtān Zhèn | ཞྭ་དམར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | zhwa dmar grong rdal | 620623110 | |
| Zhaxiquglung Town (Zhuaxixiulong) | 抓喜秀龙镇 | Zhuāxǐxiùlóng Zhèn | བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཕྱུག་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bkra shis phyug lung grong rdal | 620623111 | |
| Gyayag Town (Dahonggou) | 大红沟镇 | Dàhónggōu Zhèn | རྒྱ་ཡག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rgya yag grong rdal | 620623112 | |
| Sabda'gyai Town (Qilian) | 祁连镇 | Qílián Zhèn | སྲབ་མདའ་བརྒྱད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | srab mda' brgyad grong rdal | 620623113 | |
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| Dongpoin Township (Dongping) | 东坪乡 | Dōngpíng Xiāng | སྟོང་བོན་ཞང་། | stong bon zhang | 620623201 | |
| Sêralung Township (Sailalong) | 赛拉隆乡 | Sàilālóng Xiāng | སེ་ར་ལུང་ཞང་། | se ra lung zhang | 620623202 | |
| Gyiyangtang Township (Dongdatan) | 东大滩乡 | Dōngdàtān Xiāng | སྐྱིད་ཡངས་ཐང་ཞང་། | skyid yangs thang zhang | 620623203 | |
| Horxugkya Township (Maozang) | 毛藏乡 | Máozàng Xiāng | ཧོར་ཤུག་ཁྱ་ཞང་། | hor shug khya zhang | 620623208 | |
| Dainma Township (Danma) | 旦马乡 | Dànmǎ Xiāng | འདན་མ་ཞང་། | 'dan ma zhang | 620623210 | |
The county is mountainous, being located at the tripoint of theTibet Plateau, theLoess Plateau and theInner Mongolia Plateau, with elevations ranging from 2040 m to 4874 m. It is divided into the watersheds of theShiyang River and theYellow River and crossed by theWushao Mountain. South of the Wushao Mountain, the climate iscontinental and north of it, the climate issemi-arid. The land is mostly covered by grasslands and forests.[4]
| Climate data for Bairi, elevation 2,485 m (8,153 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1991–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.4 (56.1) | 15.9 (60.6) | 22.2 (72.0) | 24.6 (76.3) | 27.5 (81.5) | 27.8 (82.0) | 33.9 (93.0) | 30.8 (87.4) | 25.1 (77.2) | 22.2 (72.0) | 16.0 (60.8) | 12.8 (55.0) | 33.9 (93.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.6 (30.9) | 2.4 (36.3) | 7.8 (46.0) | 13.1 (55.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 20.7 (69.3) | 22.9 (73.2) | 21.7 (71.1) | 16.7 (62.1) | 11.9 (53.4) | 6.0 (42.8) | 0.6 (33.1) | 11.7 (53.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.9 (12.4) | −7.2 (19.0) | −1.0 (30.2) | 5.0 (41.0) | 9.6 (49.3) | 14.0 (57.2) | 16.0 (60.8) | 14.7 (58.5) | 10.0 (50.0) | 4.1 (39.4) | −3.0 (26.6) | −9.7 (14.5) | 3.5 (38.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −17.6 (0.3) | −13.9 (7.0) | −7.6 (18.3) | −2.2 (28.0) | 2.5 (36.5) | 7.4 (45.3) | 9.4 (48.9) | 9.0 (48.2) | 4.9 (40.8) | −1.3 (29.7) | −8.6 (16.5) | −16.1 (3.0) | −2.8 (26.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −30.0 (−22.0) | −25.5 (−13.9) | −24.9 (−12.8) | −15.7 (3.7) | −6.5 (20.3) | −1.7 (28.9) | 2.8 (37.0) | 0.7 (33.3) | −1.5 (29.3) | −10.1 (13.8) | −20.3 (−4.5) | −28.0 (−18.4) | −30.0 (−22.0) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 2.7 (0.11) | 5.1 (0.20) | 6.8 (0.27) | 17.5 (0.69) | 43.9 (1.73) | 59.5 (2.34) | 64.9 (2.56) | 90.1 (3.55) | 62.8 (2.47) | 26.2 (1.03) | 7.3 (0.29) | 2.2 (0.09) | 389 (15.33) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.8 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 7.6 | 11.4 | 13.8 | 13.4 | 15.2 | 17.4 | 9.9 | 5.8 | 4.4 | 113.5 |
| Average snowy days | 6.1 | 8.2 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 4.6 | 7.5 | 6.0 | 47.6 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 53 | 52 | 48 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 65 | 71 | 76 | 70 | 64 | 55 | 59 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 228.7 | 216.6 | 242.6 | 232.2 | 230.4 | 202.6 | 211.5 | 185.3 | 166.6 | 204.3 | 214.7 | 226.2 | 2,561.7 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 74 | 70 | 65 | 59 | 53 | 46 | 48 | 45 | 46 | 60 | 71 | 76 | 59 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[6][7] | |||||||||||||
| Climate data for Wuqiaoling, Bairi, elevation 3,045 m (9,990 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) | −4.9 (23.2) | −2.5 (27.5) | 1.5 (34.7) | 7.0 (44.6) | 11.2 (52.2) | 15.0 (59.0) | 17.2 (63.0) | 16.2 (61.2) | 11.9 (53.4) | 6.6 (43.9) | 1.4 (34.5) | −3.2 (26.2) | 6.5 (43.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.3 (11.7) | −9.1 (15.6) | −4.7 (23.5) | 1.2 (34.2) | 5.7 (42.3) | 10.0 (50.0) | 12.3 (54.1) | 11.1 (52.0) | 6.7 (44.1) | 0.9 (33.6) | −4.8 (23.4) | −9.5 (14.9) | 0.7 (33.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −16.1 (3.0) | −13.9 (7.0) | −9.1 (15.6) | −3.4 (25.9) | 1.0 (33.8) | 5.6 (42.1) | 8.0 (46.4) | 7.1 (44.8) | 3.0 (37.4) | −2.9 (26.8) | −9.2 (15.4) | −14.3 (6.3) | −3.7 (25.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 3.0 (0.12) | 5.2 (0.20) | 11.7 (0.46) | 19.1 (0.75) | 41.9 (1.65) | 70.3 (2.77) | 91.0 (3.58) | 93.2 (3.67) | 66.4 (2.61) | 22.6 (0.89) | 4.9 (0.19) | 2.0 (0.08) | 431.3 (16.97) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 5.4 | 8.0 | 11.5 | 11.4 | 14.1 | 14.7 | 16.6 | 17.7 | 17.0 | 11.7 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 138.1 |
| Average snowy days | 9.2 | 11.3 | 15.7 | 13.8 | 11.2 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 4.4 | 13.0 | 8.9 | 7.9 | 97.3 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 49 | 53 | 55 | 54 | 58 | 61 | 68 | 73 | 74 | 65 | 52 | 47 | 59 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 232.4 | 221.9 | 239.7 | 235.1 | 235.5 | 211.8 | 213.4 | 193.1 | 176.3 | 218.4 | 237.0 | 236.2 | 2,650.8 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 75 | 72 | 64 | 59 | 53 | 48 | 48 | 47 | 48 | 64 | 79 | 80 | 61 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[6][7] | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Population | Percentage |
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| Han | 139,190 | 62.88% |
| Tibetan | 66,125 | 29.87% |
| Tu | 12,633 | 5.71% |
| Hui | 1,986 | 0.9% |
| Mongol | 961 | 0.43% |
| Manchu | 213 | 0.1% |
| Dongxiang | 90 | 0.04% |
| Uyghur | 40 | 0.02% |
| Miao | 23 | 0.01% |
| Others | 86 | 0.04% |
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