Zêkog 泽库县 ·རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། | |
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Zêkog County (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
| Coordinates:35°05′N101°30′E / 35.083°N 101.500°E /35.083; 101.500 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Huangnan |
| County seat | Chak Qu Town |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,494 km2 (2,507 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,660 m (12,010 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 75,659 |
| • Density | 11.65/km2 (30.17/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 811400 |
| Area code | 0973 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 泽库县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 澤庫縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Zêkog County (Tibetan:རྩེ་ཁོག་རྫོང,Tibetan pronunciation:[tse˥˥kʰo˥˨],Amdo Tibetan pronunciation:[(ʂ)tsekʰok];Chinese:泽库县) is the second largest administrative subdivision by area withinHuangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in easternQinghai Province, China, borderingGansu to the east. The county has an area of 6,658 square kilometres or 2,571 square miles and a population of ~50,000 (2001), mainlyTibetan. Thecounty seat is the town ofChak Qu, whose altitude is approximately 3,700 metres or 12,100 feet above sea level.
Zêkog County is made up of 4towns and 3townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Zêkog Town (Zêqu, Chak Qu, Zequ) | 泽曲镇 | Zéqǔ Zhèn | རྩེ་ཆུ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rtse chu grong brdal | 632323100 | |
| Mêxü Town (Maixiu) | 麦秀镇 | Màixiù Zhèn | དམེ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dme shul grong rdal | 632323101 | |
| Hor Town (Heri) | 和日镇 | Hérì Zhèn | ཧོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hor grong rdal | 632323102 | |
| Nyinqug Town (Nyinxug, Ningxiu) | 宁秀镇 | Níngxiù Zhèn | ཉིན་ཤུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nyin shug grong rdal | 632323103 | |
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| Poingya Township (Wangjia) | 王加乡 | Wángjiā Xiāng | བོན་བརྒྱ་ཞང་། | rtse chu grong brdal | 632323202 | |
| Jisa Township (Xibusha) | 西卜沙乡 | Xībùshā Xiāng | དཔྱི་ས་ཞང་། | dpyi sa zhang | 632323203 | |
| Dogarmo Township (Duohemao) | 多禾茂乡 | Duōhémào Xiāng | རྡོ་དཀར་མོ་ཞང་། | rdo dkar mo zhang | 632323204 | |
Zêkog County has analpine climate (KöppenETH) due to very high elevation.
| Climate data for Zêkog County, elevation 3,663 m (12,018 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 10.7 (51.3) | 12.3 (54.1) | 16.5 (61.7) | 21.6 (70.9) | 21.4 (70.5) | 22.8 (73.0) | 25.2 (77.4) | 23.2 (73.8) | 22.9 (73.2) | 19.0 (66.2) | 14.5 (58.1) | 10.9 (51.6) | 25.2 (77.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.6 (27.3) | 0.2 (32.4) | 3.7 (38.7) | 8.1 (46.6) | 11.1 (52.0) | 13.6 (56.5) | 16.0 (60.8) | 15.9 (60.6) | 12.5 (54.5) | 7.1 (44.8) | 2.5 (36.5) | −1.3 (29.7) | 7.2 (45.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −12.9 (8.8) | −9.7 (14.5) | −5.0 (23.0) | 0.3 (32.5) | 4.1 (39.4) | 7.5 (45.5) | 9.7 (49.5) | 9.2 (48.6) | 5.5 (41.9) | −0.2 (31.6) | −6.8 (19.8) | −11.7 (10.9) | −0.8 (30.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.7 (−5.3) | −17.6 (0.3) | −12.1 (10.2) | −6.2 (20.8) | −1.7 (28.9) | 2.2 (36.0) | 4.2 (39.6) | 3.8 (38.8) | 0.8 (33.4) | −5.2 (22.6) | −13.3 (8.1) | −19.2 (−2.6) | −7.1 (19.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −35.0 (−31.0) | −31.9 (−25.4) | −28.3 (−18.9) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −17.3 (0.9) | −6.2 (20.8) | −8.7 (16.3) | −7.6 (18.3) | −10.5 (13.1) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −27.1 (−16.8) | −31.1 (−24.0) | −35.0 (−31.0) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 3.2 (0.13) | 4.7 (0.19) | 11.3 (0.44) | 24.6 (0.97) | 58.7 (2.31) | 82.9 (3.26) | 109.1 (4.30) | 90.7 (3.57) | 78.1 (3.07) | 31.2 (1.23) | 3.9 (0.15) | 1.4 (0.06) | 499.8 (19.68) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.2 | 5.4 | 7.5 | 10.4 | 16.2 | 18.0 | 17.8 | 16.6 | 16.8 | 12.4 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 130.8 |
| Average snowy days | 5.5 | 7.6 | 9.9 | 13.2 | 12.4 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 13.0 | 5.2 | 3.2 | 77.8 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 49 | 48 | 50 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 70 | 56 | 47 | 62 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 219.2 | 200.3 | 229.6 | 237.4 | 221.0 | 196.0 | 212.3 | 212.8 | 172.7 | 203.4 | 227.2 | 229.4 | 2,561.3 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 70 | 64 | 61 | 60 | 51 | 45 | 48 | 52 | 47 | 59 | 74 | 76 | 59 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[2][3] All-time Nov high[4] | |||||||||||||