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Menyuan Hui Autonomous County

Coordinates: 37°26′N 101°42′E / 37.433°N 101.700°E / 37.433; 101.700
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Menyuan County
门源县 · مٍیُوًا‎ · འཇུ་ལག་རྫོང་།
门源回族自治县 · مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎ · སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན།
Hualong Hui Autonomous County
Location of Menyuan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of Menyuan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Menyuan is located in Qinghai
Menyuan
Menyuan
Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 37°26′N 101°42′E / 37.433°N 101.700°E / 37.433; 101.700
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHaibei
County seatHaomen Town
Area
 • Total6,381.65 km2 (2,463.97 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total138,335
 • Density22/km2 (56/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.menyuan.gov.cn
Menyuan Hui Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese门源回族自治县
Traditional Chinese門源回族自治縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMényuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanསེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན། or འཇུ་ལག་རྫོང་།
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠮᠧᠨ ᠶᠤᠸᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠲᠣᠩ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 门源回族自治县; traditional Chinese: 門源回族自治縣; pinyin: Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn, Xiao'erjing: مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا; Tibetan: སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན།) is a county in the northeast of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu Province to the north. It is under the administration of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Menyuan is situated on the Datong River between the Qilian Mountains and Daban Mountains. Gangshiqia Peak rises dramatically in the north of the county. It used to be called Menyuan (亹源) in Chinese, with a different first character from the current name.

Administrative divisions

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Haiyan County is made up of 4 towns, 7 townships, and 1 ethnic township:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code Notes
Towns
Haomen Town
(Julag Town)
浩门镇 Hàomén Zhèn འཇུ་ལག་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'ju lag grong rdal 632221100
Qingshiju Town
(Dê'gyaitiubur Town)
青石咀镇 Qīngshíjǔ Zhèn སྡེ་བརྒྱད་དེའུ་འབུར་གྲོང་རྡལ། sde brgyad de'u 'bur grong rdal 632221101
Quankou Town
(Xartang Town)
泉口镇 Quánkǒu Zhèn ཤར་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། shar thang grong rdal 632221102
Dongchuan Town 东川镇 Dōngchuān Zhèn 632221103
Townships
Beishan Township
(Qangri Township)
北山乡 Běishān Xiāng བྱང་རི་ཞང་། byang ri zhang 632221200
Malian Township 麻莲乡 Málián Xiāng 632221201
Xitan Township
(Nubtang Township)
西滩乡 Xītān Xiāng ནུབ་ཐང་ཞང་། nub thang zhang 632221202
Yintian Township
(Sibxing Township)
阴田乡 Yīntián Xiāng སྲིབ་ཞིང་ཞང་། srib zhing zhang 632221203
Xianmi Township
(Sêmnyi Township)
仙米乡 Xiānmǐ Xiāng སེམས་ཉིད་ཞང་། sems nyid zhang 632221204
Zhugu Township
(Chuku Township)
珠固乡 Zhūgù Xiāng དྲུ་གུ་ཞང་། dru gu zhang 632221205
Sujitan Township
(Soi'gyitang Township)
苏吉滩乡 Sūjítān Xiāng བསོད་སྐྱིད་ཐང་ཞང་། bsod skyid thang zhang 632221206
Ethnic township
Huangcheng Mongol Ethnic Township 皇城蒙古族乡 Huángchéng Ménggǔzú Xiāng 632221207 (Mongolian)
ᠬᠤᠸᠠᠩ ᠴᠧᠩ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠩ

Others:

  • Menyuan Prison (门源监狱)
  • Menyuan Stallion Ranch (门源种马场)

Climate

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Climate data for Menyuan, elevation 2,850 m (9,350 ft), (1991–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −1.8
(28.8)
2.2
(36.0)
6.6
(43.9)
11.8
(53.2)
15.4
(59.7)
18.5
(65.3)
20.7
(69.3)
20.1
(68.2)
16.1
(61.0)
10.5
(50.9)
4.3
(39.7)
−1.1
(30.0)
10.3
(50.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) −12.0
(10.4)
−7.6
(18.3)
−2.0
(28.4)
3.6
(38.5)
7.7
(45.9)
11.2
(52.2)
13.2
(55.8)
12.3
(54.1)
8.4
(47.1)
2.5
(36.5)
−5.0
(23.0)
−11.1
(12.0)
1.8
(35.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −19.5
(−3.1)
−15.3
(4.5)
−8.7
(16.3)
−3.0
(26.6)
1.2
(34.2)
4.8
(40.6)
6.8
(44.2)
6.3
(43.3)
3.1
(37.6)
−3.0
(26.6)
−11.3
(11.7)
−18.1
(−0.6)
−4.7
(23.5)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.0
(0.08)
4.5
(0.18)
16.4
(0.65)
34.1
(1.34)
67.5
(2.66)
82.6
(3.25)
89.2
(3.51)
115.4
(4.54)
83.9
(3.30)
26.6
(1.05)
5.7
(0.22)
2.0
(0.08)
529.9
(20.86)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 3.3 4.4 9.1 10.4 14.4 17.8 17.4 17.9 16.8 9.7 3.6 2.5 127.3
Average snowy days 4.6 6.8 11.9 10.9 5.8 0.4 0.1 0.2 1.1 7.3 5.0 3.7 57.8
Average relative humidity (%) 50 48 52 55 60 66 72 74 74 68 60 54 61
Mean monthly sunshine hours 202.8 196.9 218.7 219.2 225.0 209.9 212.6 198.3 170.8 202.2 214.3 204.8 2,475.5
Percent possible sunshine 66 64 58 55 51 48 48 48 47 59 71 69 57
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Transportation

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "海北州第七次全国人口普查公报(第一、二、三、四、五、六号)" (in Chinese). Government of Haibei Prefecture. 2022-12-02.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.