Li County 理县 ·ལིས་རྫོང་། · Bez Lixian | |
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![]() Bailong Waterfall in Bipenggou, Li County | |
![]() Li County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan province | |
Coordinates (Li County government):31°26′09″N103°09′48″E / 31.4358°N 103.1633°E /31.4358; 103.1633 | |
Country | China |
Province | Sichuan |
Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
County seat | Zhaxiling (Zagunao) |
Area | |
• Total | 4,318 km2 (1,667 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 36,926 |
• Density | 8.6/km2 (22/sq mi) |
• Majornationalities | Tibetan - 53.43% Qiang - 33.50% Han - 12.46% Hui - 0.41% |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Li County, Sichuan | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 理县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 理縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ལིས་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Qiang name | |||||||
Qiang | Bez | ||||||
Li County orLixian (Chinese:理县;Tibetan:ལིས་རྫོང་།;Qiang:pauɕuq), formerly known asLifan (理番), is acounty inNgawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture,Sichuan, China.China National HighwayG317 and theZhaxiling River run through the whole territory.[2]
On May 12, 2008, the area was affected by the2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Li County is located from30°54′43″N102°32′46″E / 30.91194°N 102.54611°E /30.91194; 102.54611 (30.911944°, 102.546111°) to31°12′12″N103°30′30″E / 31.20333°N 103.50833°E /31.20333; 103.50833 (31.203333°, 103.508333°).[2]
Climate data for Lixian, elevation 1,897 m (6,224 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) | 20.9 (69.6) | 30.4 (86.7) | 31.7 (89.1) | 32.0 (89.6) | 33.4 (92.1) | 34.6 (94.3) | 35.8 (96.4) | 34.4 (93.9) | 33.6 (92.5) | 27.6 (81.7) | 24.4 (75.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 35.8 (96.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.8 (44.2) | 10.8 (51.4) | 15.4 (59.7) | 20.6 (69.1) | 23.1 (73.6) | 24.8 (76.6) | 27.3 (81.1) | 27.5 (81.5) | 23.2 (73.8) | 18.2 (64.8) | 13.4 (56.1) | 8.1 (46.6) | 18.3 (64.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) | 3.9 (39.0) | 8.1 (46.6) | 12.7 (54.9) | 15.8 (60.4) | 18.2 (64.8) | 20.6 (69.1) | 20.6 (69.1) | 17.1 (62.8) | 12.3 (54.1) | 7.2 (45.0) | 2.2 (36.0) | 11.6 (53.0) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.1 (26.4) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.3 (37.9) | 7.4 (45.3) | 10.8 (51.4) | 13.9 (57.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 13.3 (55.9) | 8.7 (47.7) | 3.2 (37.8) | −1.8 (28.8) | 7.3 (45.1) |
Record low °C (°F) | −11.0 (12.2) | −10.9 (12.4) | −7.9 (17.8) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.2 (37.8) | 7.2 (45.0) | 9.3 (48.7) | 7.4 (45.3) | 5.2 (41.4) | −0.2 (31.6) | −5.3 (22.5) | −12.1 (10.2) | −12.1 (10.2) |
Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 7.5 (0.30) | 12.4 (0.49) | 34.1 (1.34) | 62.2 (2.45) | 96.8 (3.81) | 108.1 (4.26) | 76.2 (3.00) | 68.8 (2.71) | 78.3 (3.08) | 63.2 (2.49) | 15.2 (0.60) | 4.1 (0.16) | 626.9 (24.69) |
Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.8 | 8.3 | 13.0 | 16.9 | 19.6 | 21.0 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 7.3 | 3.9 | 162 |
Average snowy days | 12.2 | 11.1 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 7.1 | 39.1 |
Averagerelative humidity (%) | 62 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 69 | 73 | 73 | 69 | 64 | 67 |
Mean monthlysunshine hours | 80.7 | 130.5 | 162.7 | 174.8 | 170.9 | 136.8 | 158.3 | 164.5 | 128.8 | 121.7 | 87.2 | 67.7 | 1,584.6 |
Percentagepossible sunshine | 25 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 40 | 32 | 37 | 40 | 35 | 35 | 28 | 22 | 35 |
Source:China Meteorological Administration[3][4] |
Li County oversees 6towns and 5townships.[5][6][note 1]The county government is seated in the town of Zhaxiling.[7]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Qiang | Administrative division code | |
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Towns | |||||||
Zhaxiling Town (Zagunao) | 杂谷脑镇 | Zágǔnǎo Zhèn | བཀྲ་ཤིས་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bkra shis gling grong rdal | Bawxiaen | 513222100 | |
Nyaglo Town (Miyaluo) | 米亚罗镇 | Mǐyàluó Zhèn | མྱག་ལོ་ཀྲེན། | myag lo kren | Miyalo | 513222101 | |
Gubrago Town (Gu'ergou) | 古尔沟镇 | Gǔ'ěrgōu Zhèn | ཀུབ་ར་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kub ra mgo grong rdal | Guergeu | 513222102 | |
Xuecheng Town (Xüchêng) | 薛城镇 | Xuēchéng Zhèn | ཞུའེ་ཁྲེང་ཀྲེན་། | zhuve khreng kren | 513222103 | ||
Taoping Town | 桃坪镇 | Táopíng Zhèn | ཐའོ་ཕིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thavo phing grong rdal | Saqi | 513222104 | |
Putou Town (Püdü) | 朴头镇 | Pǔtóu Zhèn | ཕུའི་འཏུའི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phuvi vtuvi grong rdal | 513222105 | ||
Townships | |||||||
Ganbao Township (Gainpu) | 甘堡乡 | Gānbǎo Xiāng | ཀམ་ཕུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kam phu yul tsho | 513222202 | ||
Puxi Township (Puqi) | 蒲溪乡 | Púxī Xiāng | ཕུའུ་ཆི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | phuvu chi yul tsho | 513222203 | ||
Bodogxugo Township (Shangmeng) | 上孟乡 | Shàngmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཀོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu ko yul tsho | 513222204 | ||
Bodogxudo Township (Xiameng) | 下孟乡 | Xiàmèng Xiāng | འབོ་ཏོག་ཤུ་ཏོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbo tog shu to yul tsho | 513222205 | ||
Tonghua Township | 通化乡 | Tōnghuà Xiāng | ཐོང་ཧྭ་ཞང་། | thong hwa zhang | 513222207 |
As of 2018, Li County had a registered population of 43,375.[8] 11,706 of the county's population, or 27%, is urbanized.[8]
The county had a population of 42,494 in 1999.[9]
Ethnicity | Population | Percentage |
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Tibetan | 23,175 | 53.43% |
Qiang | 14,531 | 33.50% |
Han | 5,405 | 12.46% |
Hui | 179 | 0.41% |
Other | 85 | 0.20% |