Tongren 同仁市 ·ཐུང་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། Rebgong | |
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 Tongren from above | |
.png) Tongren (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Tongren Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates (Tongren County government):35°30′58″N102°01′06″E / 35.5161°N 102.0183°E /35.5161; 102.0183 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Huangnan |
| Municipal seat | Longwu (Rongwo) |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,275 km2 (1,264 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,480 m (8,140 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 101,519 |
| • Density | 31.00/km2 (80.28/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 811399 |
| Area code | 0973 |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese | 同仁市 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཐུན་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།orརེབ་གོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | ||||||
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Tongren (Tibetan:ཐུན་རིན་,Wylie:thun rin;Chinese:同仁;pinyin:Tóngrén), known to Tibetans asRebgong (Tibetan:རེབ་གོང་, རེབ་ཀོང་ or རེབ་སྐོང་,Amdo Tibetan pronunciation:[ɾɛʋkoŋ])[2] in the historic region ofAmdo, is the capital and second smallest administrative subdivision by area withinHuangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture inQinghai, China.
The city has an area of 3465 square kilometers and a population of ~80,000 (2002), 75%Tibetan. The economy of the city includes agriculture andaluminium mining.
Tongren is made up of 3towns and 8townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Longwu Town (Rongwo Town) | 隆务镇 | Lóngwù Zhèn | རོང་བོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rong bo grong rdal | 632301100 | |
| Bao'an Town (Tokya Town) | 保安镇 | Bǎo'ān Zhèn | ཐོ་ཀྱཱ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tho kyā grong rdal | 632301101 | |
| Dowa Town | 多哇镇 | Duōwā Zhèn | མདོ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mdo ba grong rdal | 632301102 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Lancai Township (Loinqê Township) | 兰采乡 | Láncǎi Xiāng | བློན་ཆོས་ཞང་། | blon chos zhang | 632301200 | |
| Shuangpengxi Township (Xo'ongjê Township) | 双朋西乡 | Shuāngpéngxī Xiāng | ཞོ་འོང་དཔྱེལ་ཞང་། | zho 'ong dpyel zhang | 632301201 | |
| Zainmo Township (Zhamao Township) | 扎毛乡 | Zhāmáo Xiāng | བཙན་མོ་ཞང་། | btsan mo zhang | 632301202 | |
| Hornag Township (Huangnaihai Township) | 黄乃亥乡 | Huángnǎihài Xiāng | ཧོར་ནག་ཞང་། | hor nag zhang | 632301203 | |
| Qokog Township (Qukuhu Township) | 曲库乎乡 | Qǔkùhū Xiāng | ཆུ་ཁོག་ཞང་། | chu khog zhang | 632301204 | |
| Nyaintog Township (Nianduhu Township) | 年都乎乡 | Niándūhū Xiāng | གཉན་ཐོག་ཞང་། | gnyan thog zhang | 632301205 | |
| Garzê Township (Guashize Township) | 瓜什则乡 | Guāshízé Xiāng | འགར་རྩེ་ཞང་། | 'gar rtse zhang | 632301206 | |
| Gyaiwo Township (Jiawu Township) | 加吾乡 | Jiāwú Xiāng | རྒྱལ་བོ་ཞང་། | rgyal bo zhang | 632301207 | |
TheAmdo Tibetan is thelingua franca of Tongren and the surrounding region, which is populated byTibetan andHui people, as well as someHan Chinese andMongols.[3]
TheWutun language, a Chinese-Bonan-Tibetanmixed language, is spoken by some 2,000 people in the two villages of Upper and Lower Wutun, located on the eastern bank of the Rongwo River.[3]
The city has a number ofTibetan Buddhist temples andgompas, including the large and significantRongwo Monastery of theGelug school. It is known as a center ofthangka painting.Regong arts were named on theUNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2009.
In October 2010 there werereports of large demonstrations in Tongren by Tibetan students who reportedly shouted the slogans, “equality of ethnic groups” and “freedom of language."[4]
Tongren has a highlandhumid continental climate (KöppenDwb).
| Climate data for Tongren, elevation 2,475 m (8,120 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) | 15.1 (59.2) | 21.6 (70.9) | 27.0 (80.6) | 32.7 (90.9) | 30.9 (87.6) | 31.3 (88.3) | 35.0 (95.0) | 34.2 (93.6) | 32.5 (90.5) | 23.4 (74.1) | 19.8 (67.6) | 13.9 (57.0) | 35.0 (95.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.5 (34.7) | 5.5 (41.9) | 11.0 (51.8) | 16.4 (61.5) | 19.3 (66.7) | 22.0 (71.6) | 24.1 (75.4) | 23.7 (74.7) | 19.0 (66.2) | 14.0 (57.2) | 8.5 (47.3) | 3.0 (37.4) | 14.0 (57.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −6.1 (21.0) | −2.5 (27.5) | 2.9 (37.2) | 8.5 (47.3) | 12.2 (54.0) | 15.3 (59.5) | 17.4 (63.3) | 16.7 (62.1) | 12.5 (54.5) | 6.8 (44.2) | 0.6 (33.1) | −4.7 (23.5) | 6.6 (43.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −11.6 (11.1) | −8.4 (16.9) | −3.1 (26.4) | 2.1 (35.8) | 6.3 (43.3) | 9.9 (49.8) | 12.0 (53.6) | 11.5 (52.7) | 8.1 (46.6) | 1.9 (35.4) | −4.7 (23.5) | −10.1 (13.8) | 1.2 (34.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −22.6 (−8.7) | −19.5 (−3.1) | −15.0 (5.0) | −9.3 (15.3) | −3.7 (25.3) | 1.2 (34.2) | 4.3 (39.7) | 2.3 (36.1) | −0.9 (30.4) | −10.5 (13.1) | −16.4 (2.5) | −21.5 (−6.7) | −22.6 (−8.7) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 2.8 (0.11) | 4.2 (0.17) | 10.5 (0.41) | 24.5 (0.96) | 56.9 (2.24) | 59.4 (2.34) | 84.3 (3.32) | 77.8 (3.06) | 68.6 (2.70) | 25.4 (1.00) | 4.1 (0.16) | 1.0 (0.04) | 419.5 (16.51) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 3 | 3.3 | 5.2 | 7.8 | 12.8 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 13.9 | 14.3 | 8.5 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 103.6 |
| Average snowy days | 4.4 | 5.3 | 6.7 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 29 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 41 | 41 | 42 | 45 | 53 | 60 | 64 | 65 | 68 | 61 | 48 | 41 | 52 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 205.4 | 197.1 | 219.9 | 228.2 | 220.8 | 203.3 | 219.3 | 210.0 | 172.0 | 197.1 | 210.6 | 211.9 | 2,495.6 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 66 | 63 | 59 | 58 | 51 | 47 | 50 | 51 | 47 | 57 | 69 | 70 | 57 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[5][6] | |||||||||||||
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