Gertse County སྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་། •改则县 Gêrzê, Gaize, Kai-tse | |
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 Map showing Gêrzê County (purple, upper right) in Ngari Prefecture | |
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| Coordinates:32°18′04″N84°03′32″E / 32.301°N 84.059°E /32.301; 84.059 | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari |
| Established date[1][2][3][4] | October 1960 |
| County seat | Gêrzê[3] |
| Township-level divisions[1] | 1town, 6townships |
| Area | |
• Total | 135,025 km2 (52,133 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[5] | |
• Total | 25,327 |
| • Density | 0.18757/km2 (0.48581/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Tibetan[4] |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 859200[6] |
| Website | gz |
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| Simplified Chinese | 改则县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 改則縣 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | སྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||
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Gertse County[7] (Tibetan:སྒེར་རྩེ་རྫོང་།),Gêrzê County[6][8][9][10]orGaize County (Chinese:改则县)[11] is a county located inNgari Prefecture in the northwest of theTibet Autonomous Region, China, borderingXinjiang to the north.[3]
Gêrzê is theTibetan word for a special type of local-style dwelling built on the peak of a mountain.[1]
The area was originally inhabited by nomadic tribes.[3]
In the aftermath of theannexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China in the early 1950s,People's Liberation Army troops were stationed in Gêrzê.[12]
On May 3, 1960, the Gêrzê County Committee of theChinese Communist Party was established. On October 1, 1960, the Gêrzê County government was established.[1][2][3][4]
At 2:01 AM on February 21, 2020, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck in Gêrzê County (epicenter:34°34′N85°41′E / 34.56°N 85.68°E /34.56; 85.68).[13]
At 2:12 AM on March 10, 2020, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck in Gêrzê County (epicenter:32°50′N85°31′E / 32.84°N 85.52°E /32.84; 85.52) followed by a 3.7 magnitude and a 3.4 magnitudeaftershock. No casualties were reported.[14]
On May 8, 2020, eight suspects were arrested and eighty-nine antelope skins were confiscated in connection with reportedTibetan antelope poaching in the county.[15]
Gêrzê County is bordered to the north byKeriya County (Yutian) inHotan Prefecture (Hetian), Xinjiang and to the west byRutog County.[16] There are numerous lakes in Gêrzê County includingTong Tso.Thermal springs in Gêrzê County include Lugu[9] (70 °C;33°24′24″N84°08′12″E / 33.40667°N 84.13667°E /33.40667; 84.13667; altitude 4,528 m (14,856 ft)), Nagezhong (60 °C;32°18′N84°12′E / 32.300°N 84.200°E /32.300; 84.200; altitude 4,550 m (14,930 ft)) and Yarlhaingari (60 °C;33°00′48″N86°01′36″E / 33.01333°N 86.02667°E /33.01333; 86.02667; altitude 4,880 m (16,010 ft)).[17]
Gêrzê County has acold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification:BSk), with strong dry-wintersubarctic climate tendencies (Köppen:Dwc).
| Climate data for Gêrzê, elevation 4,279 m (14,039 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) | 8.3 (46.9) | 10.5 (50.9) | 14.5 (58.1) | 15.9 (60.6) | 22.0 (71.6) | 26.1 (79.0) | 27.6 (81.7) | 25.0 (77.0) | 22.6 (72.7) | 17.2 (63.0) | 12.9 (55.2) | 8.3 (46.9) | 27.6 (81.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.7 (27.1) | −0.3 (31.5) | 3.8 (38.8) | 8.5 (47.3) | 13.0 (55.4) | 18.2 (64.8) | 20.4 (68.7) | 18.6 (65.5) | 16.2 (61.2) | 8.6 (47.5) | 3.3 (37.9) | −0.5 (31.1) | 8.9 (48.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.1 (12.0) | −8.2 (17.2) | −4.1 (24.6) | 0.7 (33.3) | 5.2 (41.4) | 10.5 (50.9) | 13.2 (55.8) | 11.9 (53.4) | 9.1 (48.4) | 0.6 (33.1) | −5.8 (21.6) | −9.9 (14.2) | 1.0 (33.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.3 (−4.5) | −17.6 (0.3) | −13.4 (7.9) | −7.9 (17.8) | −2.7 (27.1) | 3.1 (37.6) | 6.7 (44.1) | 6.2 (43.2) | 2.1 (35.8) | −7.5 (18.5) | −14.6 (5.7) | −19.2 (−2.6) | −7.1 (19.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −44.0 (−47.2) | −42.4 (−44.3) | −32.1 (−25.8) | −20.0 (−4.0) | −15.7 (3.7) | −9.2 (15.4) | −3.3 (26.1) | −3.6 (25.5) | −9.5 (14.9) | −23.5 (−10.3) | −34.9 (−30.8) | −44.6 (−48.3) | −44.6 (−48.3) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 0.9 (0.04) | 0.6 (0.02) | 1.1 (0.04) | 2.2 (0.09) | 8.3 (0.33) | 25.1 (0.99) | 61.8 (2.43) | 71.6 (2.82) | 21.5 (0.85) | 3.7 (0.15) | 0.7 (0.03) | 0.2 (0.01) | 197.7 (7.8) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 3.9 | 7.3 | 13.6 | 15.4 | 6.7 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 55.6 |
| Average snowy days | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 7.8 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 37.4 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 27 | 24 | 23 | 27 | 32 | 39 | 47 | 56 | 43 | 29 | 25 | 24 | 33 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 232.4 | 222.9 | 258.2 | 271.1 | 305.2 | 303.0 | 284.1 | 257.4 | 280.4 | 295.7 | 260.1 | 253.0 | 3,223.5 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 72 | 71 | 69 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 66 | 63 | 77 | 85 | 84 | 81 | 73 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[18][19] | |||||||||||||
Gêrzê county is divided into 1town and 6townships:[4][20][2]
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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| Gêrzê Town | 改则镇 | Gǎizé zhèn | སྒེར་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sger rtse grong rdal |
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| Oma Township[9] | 物玛乡 | Wùmǎ xiāng | འོ་མ་ཤང་། | 'o ma shang |
| Shenchen Township | 先遣乡 | Xiānqiǎn xiāng | ཤན་ཆེན་ཤང་། | shan chen shang |
| Marmê Township | 麻米乡 | Mámǐ xiāng | མར་མེ་ཤང་། | mar me shang |
| Dongco Township | 洞措乡 | Dòngcuò xiāng | སྟོང་མཚོ་ཤང་། | stong mtsho shang |
| Gomo Township[9] | 古姆乡 | Gǔmǔ xiāng | ཁྲ་མདོངས་ཤང་། | kra mdongs shang |
| Chabug Township | 察布乡 | Chábù xiāng | བྲག་པོ་ཤང་། | brag po shang |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 2000 | 17,502 | — |
| 2010 | 22,177 | +2.40% |
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As of 1996[update], the residents of the county wereTibetan.[4] In 1999, the population of the county was 16,623.[21]
The main economic activity in Gêrzê County isanimal husbandry[14] which includes the raising ofyak,dzo, sheep, goats, and horses. The county also has wild yak, wild donkeys, wild sheep, bears andTibetan antelope.[3]
Historical maps including Gêrzê:
改则县隶属阿里地区，全县总面积135025平方公里，辖1镇6乡。2015年总人口46930人。
"改则"藏语意为"特殊的民居建于山顶"。1960年，设立改则县。
５月３日，中共改则县委员会在门董成立，{...}１０月１日，改则县人民政府在门董成立，{...}９月，改则县撤区并乡工作结束。撤区并乡后，改则县行政区调整为６乡１镇、７４个行政村、１个居委会。
2000年第五次人口普查，改则县常住总人口17502人，其中{...}2010年第六次人口普查，改则县常住总人口22177人，其中，改则镇5072人，物玛乡2315人，先遣乡1825人，麻米乡4363人，洞措乡2571人，古姆乡2312人，察布乡3719人。
改则སྒེར་རྩེ Gêrzê邮政编码：859200
Gêrzê County
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统计用区划代码 名称 542526100000 改则镇 542526200000 物玛乡 542526201000 先遣乡 542526202000 麻米乡 542526203000 洞措乡 542526204000 古姆乡 542526205000 察布乡
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