Lhari County (Tibetan: ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 嘉黎县) is a small county within the prefecture-level cityofNagqu in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Lhari County
嘉黎县 • ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་།
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Location of Lhari County (red) within Nagqu City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
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| Coordinates: 31°05′22″N 92°54′02″E / 31.08944°N 92.90056°E / 31.08944; 92.90056 | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Nagqu |
| County seat | Arza |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13,068.68 km2 (5,045.85 sq mi) |
| Population
(2020)[1]
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| • Total | 38,797 |
| • Density | 3.0/km2 (7.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Lhari County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 嘉黎县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 嘉黎縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | ལྷ་རི་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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The 11th Dalai Lama was born in Lhari County, as were both of the rival candidates for the position of the current Panchen Lama.[2]
The county contains the following 2 towns and 8 townships:
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
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| Towns | ||||
| Arza Town | 阿扎镇 | Ãzhā zhèn | ཨར་རྩ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ar rtsa grong rdal |
| Lhari Town | 嘉黎镇 | Jiālí zhèn | ལྷ་རི་་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lha ri grong rdal |
| Townships | ||||
| Nyiwu Township (Drongyül) |
尼屋乡 | Níwū xiāng | སྙིའུ་ཤང་། | snyi'u shang |
| Dzabbel Township (Zabbe) |
藏比乡 | Zàngbǐ xiāng | རྫབ་འབེལ་ཤང་། | rdzab 'bel shang |
| Codoi Township | 措多乡 | Cuòduō xiāng | ཚོ་སྟོད་ཤང་། | tsho stod shang |
| Xarma Township | 夏玛乡 | Xiàmǎ xiāng | ཤར་མ་ཤང་། | shar ma shang |
| Lingti Township | 林堤乡 | Líndī xiāng | གླིང་མཐིལ་ཤང་། | gling mthil shang |
| Mitika Township (Midikha, Cora, Tsora) |
麦地卡乡 | Màidìkǎ xiāng | སྨི་ཏི་ཁ་ཤང་། | smi ti kha shang |
| Rongdoi Township (Rongtö) |
绒多乡 | Róngduō xiāng | རོང་སྟོད་ཤང་། | rong stod shang |
| Goqung Township (Kochung) |
鸽群乡 | Gēqún xiāng | ཀོ་ཆུང་ཤང་། | ko chung shang |
| Climate data for Lhari, elevation 4,489 m (14,728 ft), (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −1.1 (30.0) |
0.5 (32.9) |
3.1 (37.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.8 (58.6) |
16.1 (61.0) |
15.9 (60.6) |
13.9 (57.0) |
9.1 (48.4) |
4.0 (39.2) |
1.0 (33.8) |
7.9 (46.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.1 (13.8) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
3.8 (38.8) |
7.7 (45.9) |
9.1 (48.4) |
8.6 (47.5) |
6.5 (43.7) |
1.6 (34.9) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
0.1 (32.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −17.9 (−0.2) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−5.6 (21.9) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
2.7 (36.9) |
4.2 (39.6) |
3.8 (38.8) |
1.8 (35.2) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−16.5 (2.3) |
−5.8 (21.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.5 (0.30) |
12.6 (0.50) |
24.1 (0.95) |
38.5 (1.52) |
83.0 (3.27) |
152.1 (5.99) |
153.6 (6.05) |
132.6 (5.22) |
111.2 (4.38) |
37.9 (1.49) |
11.3 (0.44) |
5.1 (0.20) |
769.5 (30.31) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 7.2 | 8.6 | 13.2 | 15.5 | 19.2 | 23.1 | 23.8 | 22.0 | 20.5 | 13.1 | 5.9 | 4.1 | 176.2 |
| Average snowy days | 11.6 | 12.8 | 18.2 | 20.4 | 20.7 | 6.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 6.7 | 16.8 | 9.4 | 8.0 | 134.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 49 | 49 | 54 | 59 | 64 | 69 | 72 | 73 | 72 | 63 | 53 | 48 | 60 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 209.1 | 196.0 | 218.4 | 214.7 | 224.0 | 190.8 | 174.1 | 181.7 | 187.8 | 228.5 | 227.9 | 219.2 | 2,472.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 65 | 62 | 58 | 55 | 53 | 45 | 41 | 45 | 51 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 57 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
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